The proposal would provide $32 million over 4 years to support men’s health and break the stigma around seeking support. The funding would be distributed as follows: $11.7 million in 2025-26, $11.7 million in 2026-27, $6 million in 2027-28, and $2.6 million in 2028-29.

The proposal includes $20.7 million for grassroot initiatives for men’s mental health and wellbeing in community settings including:

• $8.3 million to support another 2 years of Men’s Shed Initiative’s National Shed Development Program
• $7.4 million to Movember to expand the Ahead of the Game program:
• $3 million to Healthy Male to support the delivery of Plus Paternal Initiative
• $2 million to the Black Dog Institute to research men’s mental health and suicide prevention at the Danny Frawley Centre for Health and Wellbeing.

The remaining $11.3 million will go towards Movember to provide men’s health care training to primary health care workers and to develop a campaign to encourage men to visit the doctor.

The proposal would be non-ongoing and start from 1 July 2025.