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Traditional Aboriginal healing teams with Western medicine amid youth suicide crisis in WA's north

The healers use traditional methods such as singing, ochre, and massage.  (ABC Kimberley: Tallulah Bieundurry)

Under gumtrees on Nyikina country in Western Australia's West Kimberley, the healing songs of elders singing rings out into the silent afternoon air.

Painted red with ochre, made of powdered clay from the landscape, the group has gathered in the name of repair and recovery.

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