Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

on indulgence—I rise to associate the opposition with the minister's comments about R U OK? Day—only—and the importance of R U OK? Day to every Australian. As I go across the country in this role, it is more important than ever that we stay connected as communities. Whether it's in the workplace, whether it's in schools or whether it is in this parliament, we should be looking after each other, today and on all days, particularly young people. Young people have gone through so much—through COVID, through disaster—and they are also experiencing the cost-of-living pressures through their parents, who are coming home and expressing those stresses with mortgages, rents and energy. So today on R U OK? Day I encourage every Australian to reach out to each other and ask, 'Are you okay?' It is a very important question that leads to a very important conversation.

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