The Australian Men's Health Forum is calling on the Government to develop a national plan to prevent male suicide.

In 2023, we launched our first Time To Act on Male Suicide report, calling for a Male Suicide Prevention Action Plan. This version of the report has been updated for the National Suicide Prevention Conference 2025. Our call for a national plan to tackle male suicide remains as urgent as ever. 

Suicide in Australia kills 7 men a day. It is the leading killer of men under 65. The number of Australian men who die by suicide has risen by more than 25% in the past decade, from nearly 1900 deaths in 2013 to more than 2,400 male suicides in 2023. 

3,214 Australians died by suicide in 202 (2,419 males and 795 females). Suicide kills three times more men that women in Australia. 

This report supports the view of Suicide Prevention Australia, who says: "Male suicide is an issue requiring targeted policy and funding attention by all governments."

In 2020, the PM's National Suicide Advisor said: "The disproportionate impact of suicide on males must be called out as a priority for whole-of-government attention." 

The advice to Federal, State and Territory Governments was clean and unequivocal:

"All jurisdictions [should] commit to priority actions for male suicide prevention to be incorporated into the National Suicide Prevention Strategy."

The new National Suicide Prevention Strategy was published in 2025. 

Just 3 of the 117 actions specifically mention men or men's services. 

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