Mental health and suicide prevention is a cause that’s mighty close to my heart

So this year I have decided to participate in the The Push-Up Challenge

👊 Between 1 June and 23 June

💪 3,144 push-ups (sit-ups, squats, cartwheels and other alternatives welcome)

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge Suicide Australia added the cost of living as a major trigger. Poverty plays a role in mental health. Leaving people in poverty isn't helping us neither are push ups

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge How about you push up welfare by $31.44 a day?

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge Good on you Dan!
Do you know that the woeful JobSeeker rate and the added strain of mutual obligations and getting cut off from payments contributes to suicide and self harm in Australia and that if you #RaiseTheRate above the poverty line you would immediately help thousands MH

Capacity Tabata Conditioning workout done ✅ plus a Walk afterwards then a very tough Aerobics workout with our instructor Kay. The last day of #pushforbetter with 85 push ups done today and a total of 1,572 push ups over 23 days for Mental Health. #MPC2023

Interested in undertaking a PhD looking at mental health and social connection? Fantastic scholarship opportunity with our team at the Centre for Mental Health Melbourne School of Population and Global Health @unimelbMDHS sponsored by The Push-Up Challenge. Find more details here: go.unimelb.edu.au/w8ys

After a late night and another cold morning 🥶🥶 I decided not to hurry as I didn’t have anything on this morning so after coffee ☕️☕️ and breakfast I got Accelerate Month 2 Session 3 done ☑️ then a lovely 3k walk afterwards. Day 22 #pushforbetter with 110 pushups #MPC2023

Another cold 🥶 morning so I waited until it had warmed up a little before going on my 5k walk seeing lots of bird life along the way including Corellas and beautiful Black Swans. Day 21 of #pushforbetter with 60 push ups done today. #MPC2023 #aussiepeaker Sam Heughan

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge While you're doing push-ups, it doesn't make up for the blatantly cruel and destructive system you and your colleagues are leaving millions of us in.

But pat yourself on the back anyway, I guess.

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DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge I’m sorry, as someone with suicidal ideation, how does this help me? Pushing to have mental health on Medicare would actually help. So I can finally get my ADHD reassessed, and medicated, or have support for my bipolar I. Empty gestures from MPs are useless to us.

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge Have you considered adequate funding for mental health services instead of submarines and stage 3 tax cuts?

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge Well that’s great Dan but I bet you could do more if you were in government.

Oh hang on you are.

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge How about fund healthcare and move welfare above poverty levels?

Instead of silly stunts.

🇦🇺💪 Proud of the team at the Australian High Commission for their efforts in this year's #pushupchallenge to raise awareness for #mentalhealth ! Keep those Push-Ups coming! 🇦🇺💪 #mentalhealth matters The Push-Up Challenge Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺

THANK YOU to all who supported Team Tollgate in the Canadian Mental Health Association Push-Up Challenge. We raised $1,206 for the Brant Haldimand Norfolk branch, placing 2nd for BHN, and in the top 10 Education Teams for Ontario! Grand Erie District School Board CMHA Brant Haldimand Norfolk Brantford Expositor #PushForBetter

Challenge complete!

3,144 push-ups smashed across 23 days. $504 raised for Lifeline. Beer to celebrate.

Thank you to everyone who supported me! If you’d like to make a sneaky last minute donation, please visit thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraiser/bre… #SloanePushUps #pushforbetter

DanRepacholi MP The Push-Up Challenge If your government pushed for better #Jobseeker rate to above the #poverty line, you'd make an instant improvement in people's mental health.

And help prevent suicides. #RaiseTheRate #auspol

I am completing 2,000 push-ups in The Push-Up Challenge to #pushforbetter mental health in Canada. Funds raised will help CMHA support mental illness recovery and foster positive mental health outcomes in Canada. Please donate to help push for better: thepushupchallenge.ca/s/3859/3864/t

Today is the final day of The Push-Up Challenge!

Thanks to your generosity and support, we have raised a massive $2,233,294 for CMHA, which will enable us to improve mental health outcomes in our community.

It’s not too late to be a part of the #pushforbetter mental health! You