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SHANE FITZSIMMONS: There is
this stigma, there is this shame about being emotionally impacted
or affected and I would plead to everybody
and our particularly men - not exclusively, but men are the
worst offenders, in my experience - we've got to do more
to open the doors and give permission to our mates,
to our colleagues, to our families, to our loved ones that it's OK to be impacted and
affected by traumatic experiences
this stigma, there is this shame about being emotionally impacted
or affected and I would plead to everybody
and our particularly men - not exclusively, but men are the
worst offenders, in my experience - we've got to do more
to open the doors and give permission to our mates,
to our colleagues, to our families, to our loved ones that it's OK to be impacted and
affected by traumatic experiences
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SHANE FITZSIMMONS: There is
this stigma, there is this shame
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about being emotionally impacted
or affected
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and I would plead to everybody
and our particularly men -
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not exclusively, but men are the
worst offenders, in my experience -
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we've got to do more
to open the doors
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and give permission to our mates,
to our colleagues,
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to our families, to our loved ones
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that it's OK to be impacted and
affected by traumatic experiences.
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Movie Summary
When a volunteer firefighter drives his car into almost certain death during the worst fires in Australian history, he does it because he ‘has a job to do’. Three months later, the fires are out but his nightmares are just beginning. What’s tormenting him, however, isn’t the memory of flames. Turning a sensitive lens on the unprecedented devastation of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, from a country-wide emergency to the astonishing stories of help that emerged.
