TradeMutt work shirts are igniting peer to peer mental health support

Livestock agent Brendon White, with farmer Phil Harding from Brooklyn, Condobolin. Brendon said wearing his TradeMutt work shirt during the drought prompted many conversations on mental health. Photo: Supplied -- ...

Tradie’s bright idea helping blokes speak about mental health

A construction worker is lost to suicide every second day, according to figures from the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Now a workwear label is doing something to break...
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Growing up, I remember going into a hospital a lot however had no understanding of why I was there. As I got older, I started to understand mental health more...
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Dave built his support networks through the power of storytelling, a practice which allowed him to normalise his own story and find others who might relate. By doing this he...
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What is it they say when the masks drop on an aircraft? Fit your own mask before helping anyone else? There is a lot to take out of that analogy...
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There is something that we do in Australia that we do better than anywhere else in the world. We take the piss. We take the piss out of ourselves and...
You know you're going to fail anyway, so why bother?

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“Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation, count on discipline” - Jocko Willink, Ex-Navy SEAL.  I...
Family Chaos And Celebration
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Family Chaos And Celebration

December is the one month of the year that seems to sneak up out of nowhere even though you know exactly where it lands on the calendar. It’s a very...