The Movement
This October, Mental Health Australia's national theme is Together We Thrive. Men who lack close friends or family are twice as likely to have thought about suicide. Connection isn't a soft add-on to men's mental health, it might be one of the most protective things we have.
Around 70 Australian men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every single day. Caught early, it's one of the most survivable cancers there is. Right now, only 36% of cases are caught that early. Society Of Wolves on why the gap between survivable and caught in time matters more than most men realise.
Two of the most established mental health organisations in the world land on the same date this September, and both arrive at the exact same conclusion. Ask any day. Change the narrative. Start the conversation. On R U OK? Day, World Suicide Prevention Day, and why the day itself was never really the point.
Fifty hour weeks. A present husband. A present father. All at once. Nobody warns you how heavy that gets, or that you're not actually meant to carry it by yourself. This Father's Day, on breaking cycles, going the extra mile, and why fathers need other fathers.
More than half of Australian men aged 35 to 50 meet the clinical criteria for loneliness. Not the man alone in the corner. The one with a full calendar, a group chat, and nobody who actually knows what's going on with him. This is Loneliness Awareness Week, and everything we've been circling all year.
