Yesterday afternoon Barbara Kuriger took part in a
special Parliamentary debate to acknowledge the Zero Suicide
Aotearoa report released on World Suicide Prevention Day
last year.
The report was commissioned by a
cross-party committee to address New Zealand’s high
suicide rate and achieve, as its name suggests, the
long-term aspiration of zero suicides.
Members include
National MP Matt Doocey, ACT Leader David Seymour, Labour MP
Louisa Wall and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick.
It estimated
150,000 Kiwis thought about taking their own life and of
those, 50,000 made a suicide plan, 20,000 attempted it and
more than 500 died.
“There is no room for politics