
Kelly Marson
Community Activation Lead at Let's Talk, a mental health charity based in south-west Victoria, Australia, focused on breaking stigma in regional communities.
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Sep 28, 2026
Let's Talk: Breaking Stigma and Building Stronger Mental Health in Regional Communities
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For listeners who haven't heard about the organisation before, could you give a little explanation of what the organisation is?

Kelly MarsonGUEST
So Let's Talk, like you said, began in 2016 after there was a cluster of suicides in our local area, not only around Warrnambool, but also locally sort of outside in our rural small towns.

Kelly MarsonGUEST
And when we say a cluster, we're talking about obviously a few or more in a small timeframe period of people who take their lives.

Kelly MarsonGUEST
And I guess out of that, the parents of one of the young men who took their life, Jane and Mick Fitzgibbon, got together with a local mental health clinician in town, John Parkinson, and they decided to open up a community space for people to come in and have a conversation around obviously the experiences and the trauma that everyone was experiencing at that time.

Kelly MarsonGUEST
And out of that came a realisation that there was still very much a stigma attached, you know, to the mental health conversation.

Kelly MarsonGUEST
And especially in our rural isolated areas where the conversation just doesn't really come up very much.
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