Hon Adele Farina asks the Attorney General about suicide statistics in the Bunbury coronial district for 2010/11 and 2011/12, including breakdowns by gender and age. The Attorney General provides the requested data.

AnsweredQoN 6301Legislative Council
Asked
18 October 2012
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Attorney General

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The Bunbury coronial district is comprised of Bunbury and the towns of Augusta, Australind, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown, Brunswick Junction, Busselton, Collie, Donnybrook, Dunsborough, Harvey, Manjimup, Margaret River, Nannup, Pemberton, Waroona and Yarloop. Notice: This document is created or edited using unregistered or evaluation copy of rtLib valid for testing or development purposes only. To use it for productive or any other purposes please register it. You may purchase the license on http://www.rtlib.com

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Answered
7 November 2012
Response time
20 days
The number of cases determined by a Coroner to be suicides in the Bunbury coronial jurisdictional area in 2010/11 was 28, and for 2011/12 the total number was also 28.
1)
In 2010/11 there were a total of 3 female and 25 male suicides.
In 2011/12 there were a total of 8 female and 20 male suicides.
2)
Please see table below showing age at date of death:
Age
2010/11
2011/12
(a)
Under 16 years
0
1
(b)
16 - 18 years
1
0
(c)
18 - 25 years
2
2
(d)
25 - 45 years
14
12
(e)
45 years and over
11
13
Totals
28
28
3)
Data extracted from the National Coroner's Information System is only able to produce reports for the Bunbury coronial jurisdictional area as a whole, not the actual location of the death.
The Bunbury coronial district is comprised of Bunbury and the towns of Augusta, Australind, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown, Brunswick Junction, Busselton, Collie, Donnybrook, Dunsborough, Harvey, Manjimup, Margaret River, Nannup, Pemberton, Waroona and Yarloop.
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