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Speaker 1: Now, I always love hearing about great events that are

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Speaker 1: Men's Day, I believe.

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Speaker 2: That's the correct title.

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Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio to tell us more

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Speaker 1: Thursday in celebration. I've got beck Forrest, who is the

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Speaker 1: organizer of the wonderful event.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Katie, thanks for having us on.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio. And I've also

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Speaker 1: got Matt Hull, who is a case manager for Mates

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Maddie. Ops, I've got your wrong

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Speaker 2: microphone turned on. Mate. We better make sure we got

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Speaker 2: hang on. Are we right?

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Speaker 4: No, that's meeting.

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Speaker 2: We better move your Micael. That's the problem there.

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Speaker 3: Talking out belly.

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Speaker 2: It's because we.

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Speaker 1: Were talking too much before we actually got on air,

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Speaker 1: because I was very excited that you brought me a

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Speaker 1: box of pens. Now, I tell you what, when we

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Speaker 1: talk about men's health, and when we talk about men

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Speaker 2: You guys are two people who I know do a

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Speaker 1: Matt, You've come in on numerous occasions to talk about

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Speaker 1: the great work that gets underway with mates in construction.

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Speaker 1: But this Thursday, we're sort of going to see everything

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually really exciting. It's the International Men's Day Forum.

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Speaker 3: It's like a one stop shop for men to chat

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Speaker 3: there as well. So it's going to be a great day.

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Speaker 2: It is going to be a great day. Now, what

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Speaker 1: What can the blocks that are maybe thinking about heading along,

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Sure, So it's basically going to be around two hundred

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Speaker 3: men and women. Women aren't excluded at all, coming together

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Speaker 3: and hearing some incredible stories from the likes of Gerard Nisham.

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Speaker 3: He's a sports superstar, but he also founded Klontat Foundation

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Speaker 3: for all of our young Aboriginal boys. Tick Everett from

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Speaker 3: Dolly's Dream. So suicide prevention is certainly going to be

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Speaker 3: a topic, but just about resilience and empowerment opportunity to network,

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Speaker 3: and Maddie here is one of our keynote speakers, so.

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Speaker 4: I get to talk about myself again.

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Speaker 1: Well it's but you know, we can joke about that,

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Speaker 1: but you're actually doing some great stuff in terms of,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for that. I love it when people tell

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Speaker 4: obviously is it all about suicide prevention getting out there

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Speaker 4: But I suppose for Thursday's event, I'll be out there

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Speaker 3: So he's the bloke who started November. Yeah, he had

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Speaker 4: And I said, you know, men'sdays on Thursday, and they went,

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Speaker 2: You can't have them forever.

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Speaker 1: No, But look, I just think this is such a

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Speaker 1: Do people start saying, do you how come you're not

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Speaker 3: Pretty well, Yes, I've worked for police for fire an

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Speaker 3: I get abused basically by my mate, your sex is

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Speaker 3: what about the men?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 3: Our Google search International Men's Day has been around for

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Speaker 3: twenty one years, and yet what have we done? We've

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Speaker 3: done nothing. So I went right, guys, it's going to

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Speaker 2: Let's roll with it. And I love men and women.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually all about equity, and I think it takes

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to bring us all together.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great thing to do, and I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be a wonderful event. Now talk us through

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Speaker 1: who those keynote speakers are just if there's anybody out

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Speaker 3: Professor Mick Dodson is our Australian of the Year representative.

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Speaker 3: He's going to come and have a chat about his life.

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Speaker 3: It's more about journeys and stories, so just let people

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Speaker 3: know it's not really the head of suicide prevention talking

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Speaker 3: it's a lot of that heart. It's going to be

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Speaker 3: I know that Marianne bin Salik, Professor Marianne bin Salik,

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Speaker 4: Like I'll be there, So that's always good to see that.

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Speaker 4: I think if you're listening today and you're thinking, you know,

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Speaker 4: this sounds like a good event, but I can't make her.

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Speaker 4: You know, there are so many people that are going

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Speaker 4: I did it for the first time. Yeah you did

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Speaker 4: Beck do a list up of all the all the

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Speaker 4: and said, Matt, what do I do who I speak

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's going to be fantastic and you know,

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Speaker 1: wonderful to have an event for the blokes on International

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Speaker 1: Men's Day, but also wonderful for women to go along

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Speaker 1: and support as well. Now where can people go if

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Speaker 1: buying a ticket.

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Speaker 3: To Yeah, sure, So you can go to the International

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Speaker 3: Men's Day Forum. There's a Facebook page and all of

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Speaker 3: your links will be there, and we're really trying to

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Speaker 3: encourage organizations they can send a table of six for

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Speaker 3: to come along, which is just going to be very cool.

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Speaker 3: So Facebook page International Men's Day.

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Speaker 4: For them networking afterwards.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good thing, mate, it's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you both so much for coming into the studio

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Speaker 1: this morning, and we'll talk to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And can I just throw it out there if you

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Speaker 2: Good stuff. Good on your Beck and Maddie, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for coming in today. You two. You are listening

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