Aboriginal teenager becomes the fifth indigenous youth to kill themselves in ...

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A young man has become the fifth indigenous teenager to kill himself in a week, as community leaders fear suicide has become normalised in isolated communities.

The teen, who was from Townsville, had travelled to Brisbane to visit family on the weekend, and killed himself on Sunday.

He joined four other indigenous youths aged between 15 and 23 who took their own lives across a two day period last week.

Nursing and midwifery professor Gracelyn Smallwood told The Australian the tragedy is that 'suicides among our young people have become normalised behaviour'. 

She also noted Australia has the highest rates of youth suicide among the indigenous population in the world, and believes the government aren't doing enough to put an end to it.

The current trends have seen the worst affected areas shift from the

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