Suicide rates among Aboriginal girls have jumped since a Northern Territory intervention was introduced five years ago.
The territory's Children's Commissioner, Howard Bath, said girls now accounted for 40 per cent of all suicides of children under the age of 17.
It was understood suicide rates among girls were much lower five years ago, when the Howard government started the intervention, while in 1980 it was zero.
The jump coincided with a rise in the number of Aboriginal women admitted to hospital in the territory as a result of violence.
Bath described the level of violence amongst women as horrific.
