Rugby league great Greg Inglis is driving a simple message on mental health: That no one should suffer alone.

The NRL hall of famer and Maroons legend is encouraging others to, literally, wear this with pride.

Inglis' preventative mental health education provider Goanna Academy is running its 'Stick With It' campaign for the second time in 2026, asking players, fans and communities to wrap strapping tape around their wrists as an important reminder.

This is to stick by your own mental health, and stick by others when they need it.

Goanna Academy delivers programs in schools, in workplaces to strengthen mental fitness and psychological safety, culturally-safe engagement with First Nations communities and local clinics.

Academy staff each have their own lived experience.

They're not doctors, psychiatrists or a crisis service, Inglis said, they're about prevention and giving people the tools for their mental wellbeing.

Post-career, Inglis has gone public with his own mental health challenges, self-medicating, and diagnoses of anxiety, depression and bipolar II.

'Stick With It' is about what can be a silent and invisible battle out there to see.

"Because mental health issues aren't really visible. So strapping tape is a way to bring it to life. You put it on your wrist and you're saying — I'm in this with you. I'm not going anywhere," Inglis said.

Speaking on Monday, Inglis said it's about spreading the message; that you matter.

In 2024, over 3,000 people in Australia took their own life. This is nine people every day.

65,000 attempt suicide each year, or over 170 each day.

Men are three times more likely to take their own life compared to women, and, broadly, rates are significantly higher in very remote communities compared to cities.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over twice as likely to die by suicide, compared to non-Indigenous Australians.

Every dollar of campaign donations and merchandise sales go towards Goanna Academy's work.

Tape, hats, socks and stickers available.

With engagement in the campaign, communities go into the draw to win a clinic.

Current and former NRL and NRLW stars, media personalities have jumped on board.

The campaign launched on Tuesday, and will take centre stage during NRLW Magic Round in Wagga Wagga.

"It's really important to be able to spread the message about mental health," Dally M Medallist and duel Indigenous and Māori All Star Oliva Kernick said.

"We're getting into schools, teaching the kids that it is cool to speak up and to check in on your mates and to touch base with each other."

Kernick said it's important, and great to see it aligned with the NRLW and marquee round in a regional setting.

The 'Stick With It' campaign runs through to August 2.

"We all want to do something positive. And this is one way I believe we can help. When you tape up, when you donate, when you wear the merch — you're helping us reach more communities, deliver more programs and make sure more people know they don't have to go through this alone," Inglis said.

"We've been brought up to be warriors and leaders, so we don't want to show that side of us. Especially as young men, we're told to suck it up and keep moving forward. That's been passed down from generation to generation. We have to be better for our younger generations coming through. Speak up. Check in. Don't make it a one-and-done thing.

"A small act can change a life. It can save a life. That's what this is about. Sticking with it."