This report shines a light on the realities of what it means to be a teenage boy in Australia today. It highlights both promising signs and critical challenges to address to support boys in leading fulfilling lives – free from violence and other harmful behaviours. It provides recommendations for immediate policy and practice reform, and...

This study finds young Australian men’s belief in rigid masculine stereotypes has a stronger impact on whether they will use violence, sexually harass women, or experience mental ill-health themselves, than other factors including their education levels, where they live or their cultural heritage.

This study by Jesuit Social Services’ and The Men’s Project, involving 1,000 men aged 18 to 30 has shown that young men who comply with society’s pressures to be a ‘real man’ report poorer mental health, are twice as likely to consider suicide, more likely to commit acts of sexual harassment and experience and perform...