National Indigenous Times (7 May 2019) OPINION: ‘Funding football programs is not suicide prevention’ This article was first published in The Australian on the 19th April as ‘Sick Heart of a Generation’. It has been republished here with the permission of Dr Tracy Westerman. Dr Tracy is a proud Njamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia who is widely recognised for spending over two decades working to reduce the burden of mental ill health and suicide in Aboriginal communities. ff