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What is IMDMI?

The Back Story

IMDMI stands for International Men’s Day Mackay Incorporated and is the umbrella organisation that provides funding for Shed Happens to operate and carry out it’s function. It also organises the celebration of International Men’s Day (IMD) events.

Why do we need to celebrate IMD? When we look at the statistics that indicate areas where we men fail miserably, that is reason enough to celebrate the good things that we do and encourage us to stive to be better.

 

We take our own lives at almost 4 times the rate of women, wee account for over 90% of the prison population and we men are predominantly the natural parent that is missing from the family home.

The Six Pillars

There are six pillars of IMD, they are:

  • To promote positive male role models;

    not just movie stars and sports men but every day, working class men who are living decent, honest lives.

  • To celebrate men’s positive contributions to society,

    community, family, marriage, child care, and to the environment.

  • To focus on men’s health and wellbeing;

    social, emotional, physical and spiritual.

  • To highlight discrimination against men;

    in areas of social services, social attitudes and expectations, and law

  • To improve gender relations and promote gender equality

    without any form of bias

  • To create a safer, better world;

    where people can be safe and grow to reach their full potential.

This Years Events

This year we have selected the fourth pillar to be our theme and we are going to have that theme central to all our celebrations.

 4. To highlight discrimination against men; in areas of social services, social attitudes and expectations, and law

As part of our IMD celebrations we will be awarding the Mackay Man Of The Year. This will be the sixth year of this award and nominations are now open during the month of September and will close on 30 Sept 2025.

Nominations will be available through the Shed Happens Mackay Facebook Page and hard copies can be emailed or collected through Mackay Regional Council Libraries.

Our final celebration will be on Wed 19 Nov 2025 at Souths Leagues Club where we will hold our corporate breakfast. Here we discuss the fourth pillar in table group discussions and conduct raffles to win a number of great prizes. The morning concludes with a mystery auction of an exclusive donation by our sponsors and the announcement and presentation award of Mackay Man Of The Year 2025!

The winner of Mackay Man Of The Year will receive prizes consisting of:

    • A holiday courtesy of HelloWorld Travel
    • 12 month membership of Muscle Garden Gym
    • $200.00 cash

If you or your business would like to take part in this year’s International Man Day Breakfast and network with our many supporting businesses, keep an eye out on Shed Happens Mackay Facebook Page or send us an email to: mackayshedhappens@gmail.com



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