R U OK? TRUST THE SIGNS

摘要

There were dozens of cameras and microphones, and a few nerves, as the trio gathered inside Canberra's Parliament House press room in 2009 to launch the suicide prevention charity R U OK? Founder Gavin Larkin had lost his father to suicide in 1995. Larkin had recruited Graeme Cowan, who'd laid bare his own battle with depression and suicidality in the book Back from the Brink, as an ambassador. Standing with them was Nicola Roxon, then the Minister for Health and Ageing. They were credible, knowledgeable and keen. But no-one really knew how it would go.