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- Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the-counter and illicit substances in 2008. 2010 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report . More information here.
- Cross D, Shaw T, Hearn L et al, 2009, Australian Covert Bullying Prevalence Study, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, May 2009. More information here.
- 3303.0 – Causes of Death, Australia, 2008 Australian Bureau of Statistics. More information here.
- Page A, Morrell S, Taylor R et al, 2007, ‘Further increases in rural suicide in young Australian adults: secular trends 1979-2003’, Social science & medicine, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 442-53. More information here.
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