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Kōrero: Suicide

Debate on suicide reporting

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Following strong evidence that press coverage of suicides led to copy-cat behaviour, restrictions have been placed on reporting of suicide in New Zealand in the media. Not everyone agrees with this policy. Here, the former race relations conciliator, Gregory Fortuin, presents his view that there should be more open discussion of suicide.

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Jock Phillips, Suicide – Preventing suicide, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/26447/debate-on-suicide-reporting (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 31 March 2011, reviewed and revised 16 July 2019 me te āwhina o Rosemary Du Plessis.