Men

A new mental health charity is helping Australian dads overcome loneliness by connecting men through online gaming.

Barbers are one of the only safe, social, sober spaces for men to chat one-on-one, especially outside the cities. It's proving beneficial for their mental health.

There's been an "explosive" surge in Australia's smoked meats community, with barbecue community groups serving as inadvertent online men's sheds where meat, mateship and masculinity are all on the menu.

About 20 children are murdered by a parent every year in Australia. It's a crime that evokes equal measures of horror and confusion. At the crux of the issue is male-perpetrated violence.

Busselton resident Howie George was relieved that the new hospital planned for his home town would include an oncology unit. He's been left crushed by the project's delay.

A study finds local sporting clubs are taking steps to improve their members' mental health, but some need support to implement "best practice" initiatives.

WA's remote north, where Mike Nicholson lives, has one of the highest rates of male suicide in Australia. After seeing his mates struggle, he decided to do something about it, and founded a social motorbike club to bring people together.

New legislation in NSW will make it harder for people charged with serious domestic violence offences to get bail. The move has been welcomed by friends of Molly Ticehurst, who was allegedly murdered earlier this year. 

With hundreds of men waiting to access behaviour change programs, service providers say governments must fund more programs to tackle the domestic violence crisis.

Victorian MPs face being suspended and fined from parliament by their colleagues under long-awaited rules to crackdown on misconduct by politicians.

Behavioural change programs are essential for getting perpetrators of domestic violence back on the right path — but support organisations say they need more support as waitlists get longer.

In the Kimberley town of Halls Creek, advocates and frontline workers say family violence is a huge problem and more must be done to stop the normalisation of harmful and destructive behaviour.

Sinking into a freezing pool of ice water to ease anxiety might sound like a peculiar way to feel better, but it's one way men are fighting mental illness.

As social media algorithms push misogynistic content to teenage boys, other men are trying to model a healthier version of masculinity.

In the current firestorm of recriminations about the causes of domestic violence and how we might address it, there have been calls for the more frequent or more rapid jailing of violent men. But few are asking: what happens then?

The unspoken undercurrent of the week is that it's clear there are a lot of men feeling uncomfortable about this conversation. That doesn't make them bad men. It should be uncomfortable.

Politicians have this week pledged millions of dollars to help women flee family violence, but what is being done to stop men from controlling and killing women in the first place?

About a week after 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst was allegedly killed by her former partner, her family want urgent law reforms that would include monitoring devices for alleged domestic violence offenders.

Kevin Graham bought a collection of 150 model ships a year ago. He's astonished to have sold all but three of them in the following 12 months.

There is a heightened awareness of personal safety following the high-profile deaths of three local women, support services say.