{"id":34721,"date":"2020-03-29T14:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/?p=34721"},"modified":"2020-03-29T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T06:24:49","slug":"our-childrens-lives-deserve-more-than-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/our-childrens-lives-deserve-more-than-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Our children&#8217;s lives deserve more than silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANALYSIS: Aboriginal Psychologist Dr Tracy Westerman asks, where is the empathy and compassion for Indigenous youth who are taking their own lives?<\/p>\n<p>There has been a deafening silence across this country following the latest <a class=\"pdf-tracking omniture-processed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coronerscourt.wa.gov.au\/_files\/inquest-2019\/13-Children-and-Young-Persons-in-the-Kimberley-Region-Finding.pdf\">Coronial Inquiry<\/a>&nbsp;into the suicide deaths of 13 young Aboriginal people in the Kimberley, extending beyond the usual non-coverage by mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>Our political leaders have also been shockingly, and shamefully silent; ignoring the intolerable pain of these young people, who saw death as their only option and their only escape.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/nitv\/article\/2019\/03\/05\/our-childrens-lives-deserve-more-silence-1\">here<\/a> on the SBS NITV News website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANALYSIS: Aboriginal Psychologist Dr Tracy Westerman asks, where is the empathy and compassion for Indigenous youth who are taking their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[398,357,397,399],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indigenouspsychservices.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}