Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

International Men's Day provides an opportunity for us to celebrate Aussie blokes, celebrate Territory men and also celebrate those working to support our young men through to our elders. I want to say thank you.

Flinders University is working to advance men's health through their WBMenNT program in partnership with the One Percent program and Indigenous Allied Health Australia. They've been trialling the implementation of an educational and social support program for young First Nations men in the NT. Dante Rodrigues and Jahdai Vigona, who spoke here in parliament last year, two fine Territory men, and Melissa Opozda recently visited the University of Michigan with Professor James Smith from the Flinders University team to learn about the WBMen program to refine the delivery of an Australian model. I caught up with them at our Darwin International Men's Day Lunch last week. The NT program is funded by Movember, who I caught up with here yesterday, and it has the potential to be scaled across Australia.

I also attended Indigenous Allied Health Australia's Leading Our Ways graduation ceremony last week out in Palmerston. Congratulations to these graduates for the work that you do to make sure our men are healthy, our women are healthy, our kids are healthy—that all Territorians are healthy.