RE: Australian men commit suicide at a rate 3 times higher than women and nobody talks about it...

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Australian men commit suicide at a rate 3 times higher than women and nobody talks about it...

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

Long known that many farmer's wives (particularly those out in the semi-desert regions prone to ruinous drought/flood cycles) do not let their husbands go out alone with guns - because they never came back

Legion are those Australians who have discovered the 'lucky country' is anything but

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wow i never knew that. that's actually heartbreaking

You can imagine that not only is nature against you with dought or floods there is also the agribusiness markets. Most properties are mortgaged to banks or finance companies. So in the end if they don't get the land from disasters occurring in one generation, they forclose on it in the next. Knowing that your family is on the brink of destitution every day when you drive out into the bush with your dog and a rifle has been just too much to accept for some: that they failed to provide and protect. And only their dog returns home.