Late in 2015 I attended a business breakfast where the guest speaker was Jeff Kennett, the former premier of Victoria and the founder and current Chairman of Beyond Blue. I have always been impressed by people who are so well versed in their subject that they need no notes and can hold an audience in the palm of their hand. Jeff certainly did that at this breakfast.
He spoke about a number of current issues but the one that stood out for me was on the very delicate subject of suicide. For obvious reasons it is a subject that evokes a lot of emotion and not something we as a society like to talk about. Of all the things he said, what I found most alarming was a little known statistic: That for every suicide in Australia there are 30 attempted suicides..
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