| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Statistics are easily manipulated, but experts claim that since Federation the national suicide rate has hovered around 13-14 per 100,000 of population, a rate similar to those in comparable nations, with fluctuations occurring in response to the pressure of events such as war and economic depression. (And in 1996-7 the rate of male suicide in New South Wales rose, very worryingly, to 20.9 per 100
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