The Goodman Foundation and the Australian Government have jointly committed $5 million to scale mental health and wellbeing support for people working across Australia’s transport, warehousing and logistics sector, through Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds.

The funding, spread over four years, will support two major national initiatives:

a step-change expansion of the Healthy Heads Road Show (increasing from around 40 events each year to more than 100, reaching over 10,000 workers annually across metropolitan, regional and remote Australia)
a national research partnership with the University of Melbourne and Lifeline Australia focused on suicide prevention among Australian truck drivers.

Healthy Heads Chair and CEO of Australia Post, Paul Graham, said the funding is a turning point for a workforce that has been overlooked for too long.

"This is a sector of more than 745,000 Australians that has ranked last for workplace mental health for years. This investment acknowledges that reality and does something about it," Mr Graham said.

“What matters about this funding is not theory, it’s reach. It allows us to get out onto the road, into depots and into regional communities and connect people with support in a way that actually works.”

For Goodman, this partnership aligns with our focus on essential infrastructure and our Foundation’s mission to help provide life’s essentials - including services that support mental wellbeing - for people most in need in the communities where we operate.

Kris Ashpole, CEO, Goodman Foundation said “Supporting the wellbeing of transport and logistics workers requires collaboration across sectors, and we’re pleased to support a partnership that will deliver sustainable and tangible outcomes for the people who keep Australia moving.”

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About Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds

Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds is an Australian not-for-profit foundation dedicated to supporting the mental health, wellbeing, and physical health of workers in the transport, warehousing, and logistics sectors.

Goodman backs $5 million partnership to boost Australian transport sector mental health

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