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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 ....