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Father Land #4: Dolly’s Dad Tick Everett Speaks on Fatherhood, Family and Fighting On

Father Land #4: Dolly’s Dad Tick Everett Speaks on Fatherhood, Family and Fighting On

Update: 2025-09-23
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Tick Everett is a man who never imagined he’d be the face of a national movement. For decades, he worked the land, raised his daughters, and built a life around family and farming. But in January 2018, that life changed forever. At just 14, Tick’s youngest daughter, Dolly, died by suicide after an extended period of bullying and cyberbullying. Soon after, Tick and his wife Kate launched Dolly’s Dream. Today's episode isn’t the story you’ve heard before. With honesty and vulnerability, he opens up in ways he never has before about love, loss, and what it means to keep going when your world has fallen apart. He reflects on resilience, fatherhood, the importance of men speaking up about their mental health, and why even the smallest acts of kindness can matter more than we’ll ever know. This is his story.

Since teaming up with Dolly’s Dream in 2022, Nutrien’s people and communities have turned blue each year, raising over $600,000 to help end bullying and improve mental health for young people in rural Australia.. And that’s just part of more than $2.8m invested in projects that strengthen and support regional communities right across the country.  Learn more: www.nutrienagsolutions.com.au/supporting-communities











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Father Land #4: Dolly’s Dad Tick Everett Speaks on Fatherhood, Family and Fighting On

Father Land #4: Dolly’s Dad Tick Everett Speaks on Fatherhood, Family and Fighting On

Stephanie Trethewey