Survey findings described as a ‘warning sign’ of the risk of distress being felt in households converting into suicide rates
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupof more than 1,000 representative adults, with the September quarter results based on answers given online between 10 and 13 August.
The number of people reporting distress due to cost of living was nationally nearly double those reporting distress due to any of the top four issues, including housing access and affordability , social isolation and loneliness , family and relationships breakdown and unemployment and job security .
Clare Kinsella, a director at Suicide Prevention Australia, said “there’s a strong link between financial distress and suicide, housing instability and suicide”. Kinsella said data showed that two to three years after a crisis, such as a flood, bushfire or pandemic, distress levels and suicide rates can rise. “You overlay those large crises with rising interest rates, housing access challenges, it’s not surprising that we’re seeing this at the moment given the Australian economy.”
In New South Wales and Victoria, which are the only states which collect suicide data, but represent over half the national population between them – deaths rose an average 7% in 2022.
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