Very disturbing news for this year increase.
Noting with great interest that Vic suicides for 2020 and 2021 were slightly down on 2019 (looks with variation). Remember the tears by conservative pundits who suddenly seemed to care very intensely about the increase in suicide in Victoria due to COVID-19 lock-downs? Clearly there wasn’t any actual increase, the pundits were factually wrong, the tears were of the crocodile type.