Brisbane Tradies Tackle Men’s Mental Health

Demi Lynch

 

1 in 2 Australian men have had a mental health problem at some point in their lives. And 80% of Australia’s suicides are men. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Yet sadly the men of Australia aren’t talking about it. 

 

Which is why tradies Ed Ross and Dan Allen decided to create Trademutt - bright and colourful workwear to start a conversation about mens’ mental health. Demi Lynch reports. 

 

 

Moving History Around

Members of the European Parliament forced a display about the Srebrenica Genocide to be moved from Brussels, back to Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina for displaying “too many skulls and bones”.

The exhibit had been a year in planning, with members of the European Parliament, who had agreed to host the exhibit in parliament on July 11, commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

Donald Trump meets Angela Merkel in sideline NATO talks

US President Donald Trump has held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, hours after he criticised German policy on defence spending and gas imports from Russia.

Earlier, President Trump claimed a pipeline project had made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia".

Ms Merkel said she had discussed migration and trade with Mr Trump and looked forward to further exchanges as the US remained a partner of Germany.
 

Out of hours, after dark care

Social workers in Tennant Creek are regularly seeing children out on the streets after midnight, and often eat their main meal of the day at the Barkly Regional Council's After Hours Youth Centre.

Children are often bussed between the homes of family members until social workers find a house with a family member that is not intoxicated.

Each night the centre feeds around 70 children, where they also play sports and music, and create art projects before they are given a lift home.

Quolls born on Australian mainland in a landmark win

A program to reintroduce eastern quolls to mainland Australia has achieved success with 15 babies found in the pouches of three adult females.

Twenty eastern quolls bred in a wildlife park in Tasmania were released into the Booderee National Park on the NSW South Coast in March.

At first there were serious concerns the repopulation program would not succeed as a number of the marsupials became roadkill, or fell prey to foxes.

But pouch checks on the remaining females revealed that three were carrying five babies each.