March 28, 2025
by Glen Poole
With a Federal Election simply 5 weeks away, there is a chance for males’s well being advocates throughout Australia, to ask their native candidates what they are going to do to enhance males’s well being if elected.
ASK YOUR LOCAL CANDIDATES ABOUT MEN’S HEALTH
We’re calling on everybody who’s considering enhancing the lives and well being of males and boys in Australia to make a distinction this election in a single easy means: ask your native candidates what they are going to do to enhance males’s well being if they’re elected.
You possibly can obtain and ahead a replica of our Federal Election Platform 2025: Can we save the lives of 10,000 men? to the candidates standing for election in your constituency.
We even have a small variety of printed copies of this doc which you’ll request by emailing [email protected]
THE CASE FOR ACTION ON MEN’S HEALTH
Daily, 50 Australian males die from preventable causes earlier than the age of 75. Males over 75 additionally die at greater charges than girls of the identical age.
We estimate that decreasing the variety of male deaths to the identical stage as feminine deaths throughout 5 precedence well being points would save the lives of greater than 10,000 Australian males a 12 months, together with:
- 1,500+ males who die by suicide
- 4,500+ males who die from lung, pores and skin, bowel and digestive system cancers
- 3,000+ males below 75 who die from coronary heart illness and diabetes
- 1,500+ males who die from accidents and accidents
- 1,000+ males who die from drug & alcohol-induced loss of life
IT’S TIME TO FUND MEN’S HEALTH
Since 2020, Australia has had parallel methods for males’s well being and for girls’s well being. But authorities funding and help for males and boys’ well being has not saved tempo with girls and ladies’ well being.
Our recent analysis of the Federal Budget discovered that the Labor Authorities pledged $1.4B to help males’s and ladies’s well being throughout 4 budgets (2022-2025), with lower than 2% allotted to enhancing males’s well being.
This isn’t a partisan situation. Our evaluation discovered that the earlier Coalition Authorities pledged $687m to enhance girls’s well being throughout two budgets (2021-2022) and $1m to help males’s well being.
Over the previous six years (2019-2025), Australian Governments have spent round $180 billion a 12 months on well being, with simply $7 million a 12 months allotted to enhancing males’s well being.
The lads’s well being sector doesn’t advocate for funding or focus to be taken away from girls’s well being. We ask that particular funding is allotted to males’s well being initiatives to help the objectives of the Nationwide Males’s Well being Technique.
BACK THE MEN’S HEALTH SECTOR
The work of Australia’s males’s well being sector is recognised worldwide. Collectively, we will make a major distinction to the lives and well being of males and boys in Australia. But we’re held again by a scarcity of long-term funding and management.
In response to public opinion analysis commissioned by the Australian Males’s Well being Discussion board, 91% of Australians say that it’s okay for Governments to speak about males’s well being and social points.
As well as, 79% of Australians help further Authorities funding to sort out males’s well being and social points.
OUR THREE KEY CALLS FOR ACTION
Because the federal election approaches, we’re calling on all events and candidates to decide to enhancing the lives and well being of males and boys in three key methods:
1. Fund Authorities Methods
There are two nationwide well being methods that want your MP’s help:
- Let’s fund the Nationwide Males’s Well being Technique and get behind these working to enhance the lives and well being of males and boys in Australia.
- 3 in 4 suicides are males. The Nationwide Suicide Prevention Technique doesn’t make males a precedence inhabitants. Let’s fund a Male Suicide Prevention Motion Plan to verify this Technique reaches males susceptible to suicide.
2. Sort out Social Determinants
We have to tackle the social elements that form males’s well being, for instance:
- Higher schooling equals higher well being. Australia’s schooling system delivers poorer outcomes for boys and younger males at each stage. Enhancing boys’ schooling immediately will enhance males’s well being sooner or later. Let’s take motion and make boys’ schooling a precedence.
- Everybody’s well being and wellbeing are impacted by our experiences of fatherhood, notably males and boys. Males want help to be the most effective dads they are often, particularly new dads, working dads and separated dads. Let’s take motion and help Aussie dads.
3. Again Native Males’s Initiatives
Grassroots males’s teams want our help:
- We invite all political candidates to contact their native males’s teams and be taught in regards to the necessary work they’re doing to enhance the lives and well being of males and boys.
ASK YOUR LOCAL CANDIDATES ABOUT MEN’S HEALTH
You may make a distinction for males and boys this election by asking your native candidates three questions:
- Do they know that fifty Australian males a day are dying from causes that might be prevented by investing in males and boys’ well being?
- Do they know that Australian Governments spend $180 billion a 12 months on well being, with simply $7 million a 12 months allotted to enhancing males’s well being?
- Will they again the boys’s well being sector’s name to allocate extra funding to enhance males’s well being within the subsequent parliament?
We’re eager to listen to how your native candidates reply to those questions, so please electronic mail us with any responses to: [email protected] with the topic line “Election 2025”.
FURTHER READING:
Election 2025: How to take action for men’s health
Federal budget confirms men’s health is not a national priority
