By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:35 GMT, 18 March 2019 | Updated: 05:38 GMT, 18 March 2019
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A leading suicide prevention researcher has described the soaring rates of Aboriginal youth suicide as a humanitarian crisis.
The 2019 suicide toll among indigenous Australians now stands at 31 after four Queensland Aboriginals aged 15- 23 took their own lives within two days last week.
A 15-year-old girl and a 23-year-old woman took their own lives in Townsville in north Queensland last week.
The tragedies occurred with a day of two young men, 19 and 20 dying in separate incidents in Mount Isa in the state's north-west, The Australian reported.
The soaring rates of Aboriginal youth suicide described as a humanitarian crisis (stock image)
Five committed suicide in just nine days earlier this year, which began with a 15-year-old in Queensland followed by girls aged 12, 14, 15 and 12 in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia.
A third of the 2019 death toll were children, including two 12 year-olds, while almost half were female, according to Gerry Georgatos, who heads the federal
