LEE KERNAGHAN
Country music singer and 2008 Australian of the Year. He is currently recording a new album to be released later this year.
ADAM RAMANAUSKAS
Former AFL Premiership player for Essendon Football Club. After surviving cancer, he has gone on to be an ambassador for FitDeck and a founding member of Call to Arms.
MICHAEL KASPROWICZ
Former Queensland and Australian Test Cricketer. He currently is a commentator for Fox Sports.
STEVEN RENOUF
Former NRL player for the Brisbane Broncos. He lives with Type 1 Diabetes and works with the Queensland’s department of Sport and Recreation.
GARY BELCHER
Former NRL player for the Canberra Raiders and he also represented Queensland and Australia in Rugby League. He is now a Fox Sports commentator.
TREVOR HENDY
Unchallenged as the “greatest Ironman in the world”, including winning 6 Australian Open Ironman titles. Now retired from both Ironman competitions and his second sport, kayaking, he tours Australia speaking from his success to motivate others.
Dr ROB WALTERS
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and a member of the Australian General Practice Network.
PROFESSOR JOHN MacDONALD
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and President of Australasian Men’s Health Forum. He is a member of the UWS School of Biomedical Sciences, and co-director of the Men's Health Information and Resource Centre.
BRUCE RITCHIE
Editor of Men’s Health Magazine.
DR ROSIE KING
Renowned sex therapist. She worked in General Practice for twelve year before specialising in sexual therapy and relationship counseling.
PROFESSOR DAVID de KRETSER, A.C.
The Governor of Victoria. He is a Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and Doctor of Medicine. He founded the medical research group, Andrology Australia.
TIM MATHIESON
Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and Beyond Blue Ambassador.
BILL NOONAN
Branch secretary of Transport Workers Union of Australia (Victorian/Tasmania branch). He is a Department of Health and Aging Men’s Health Ambassador and the deputy Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Foundation.
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC, AFC
Was appointed as The Chief of the Defence Force on July 4, 2005. In the Australia Day Honours of 2008, Houston was advanced to a Companion of the Order of Australia.
1300 78 99 78
24 hours 7 days.
Support for men who are dealing with family and relationship difficulties, family break-down or separation. Crisis support.
Health Advice for Australian Men
Tel 03 9508 1567 Website www.49.com.au
Foundation 49 is a men's health initiative of Cabrini Health. It aims to assist men over the age of 20, offering health information, a panel of health experts, tools for health professionals, a free quarterly magazine titled A Whole New Ball Game and a website.
Tel 13 7848 Website: www.quit.org.au
Quitline is a confidential telephone service providing information, support and advice for quitting.
Tel +61 2) 8213 8699 Website: www.mensheds.com.au
Mensheds is a uniquely Australian organisation specialising in the needs of men, their health and well being, their men’s sheds and their communities.
Tel 03 9329 2622 Website www.asthmaaustralia.org.au
Asthma Foundations Australia is an association of state and territory Asthma Foundations in Australia. They provide education, training, advice and support to people with asthma and their carers.
24/7 telephone counselling
Tel 1300 364 673 Website www.lifegoeson.org.au
Life Goes On is a 24 hour 7 days telephone counselling service that offers strategies and choices for the seriously ill and those who care for them and the bereaved following a serious illness.
All counsellors are survivors or were carers for someone with a life-threatening illness.
