It is official, they are different – discrepancies between national statistical agency and register-based state suicide mortality statistics in Australia.

Conclusion: Despite different case definitions and coding practices, the two sources produced largely consistent data. They have complementary strengths: timeliness (suicide register data) and enabling cross-jurisdictional comparisons (ABS data). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research