Drought Casts Suicide Shadow over Rural Australia

The rate of rural suicide in Australia is amongst the highest in the world as farmers battle the stress of years of drought, failed crops, mounting debt and slowly decaying towns.

“Every day I look outside and I say to myself: ‘I get so sick to death of blue sky’,” wrote farmer Mick in a recent book, “Tough Times”, in which 10 country men talk about their fight with depression and thoughts of suicide