A devoted father and grandfather who had been trying to get support for ongoing mental health struggles was scheduled to meet with a psychologist just two days after his death, his devastated family has revealed.

Clifford “Cliff” Robinson, 51, had arranged an appointment with a psychologist for August 2, but died by suicide on July 31.

The sudden loss of the father-of-five has deeply shaken the Rockhampton community in central Queensland, where he and his wife of two decades, Laini, were known as silent partners in a local CrossFit gym.

Together, the couple also launched Hydr8tion N8tion, a health-focused initiative promoting the benefits of regular exercise and proper hydration.

Loved ones said Mr Robinson’s mental health began to deteriorate about a year earlier, after the gym they co-owned closed its doors and the couple was left facing serious financial strain.

He spent the next year in and out of the local hospital’s mental health unit while continuing to provide for his family as a FIFO worker in the mining industry.

His death still came as a shock to loved ones despite his lifelong battle with mental health.

‘I just wish we had a different outcome,’ Laini told the Daily Mail.

‘Losing the gym was a big blow for Cliff as it was unexpected.

‘From there, he got progressively worse. He tried to get help.

‘I knew Cliff was in a bad place because he would talk to me about everything and was honest about his struggles.

‘But he has always been resilient, so he was the last person I thought would take their own life.’

The day before her husband died, she had returned from the US with their autistic son Cliffy, 24, where he had placed fourth in the CrossFit Adaptive Games World championships.

Mr Robinson picked them up from the airport and headed home to celebrate.

‘We had a big party with the family that night,’ she recalled.

‘The next afternoon, he was gone.’

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Ms Robinson opened up about her husband’s lifelong mental health struggles at his funeral last month.

‘Life wasn’t always easy for Cliff and from a very young age, he experienced adversity and trauma no child should ever have to endure,’ she told mourners.

‘Throughout his life, there were experiences that shaped him deeply and battles that he carried that many people did not know and perhaps never will.

‘There was physical, emotional and mental pain, and battles that weren’t always visible to those around him.

‘He fought a long and incredibly hard fight, but through so much of it he maintained his sense of humour, his ability to laugh at life and his determination to keep moving forward.’

Ms Robinson wished her husband could have seen himself through the eyes of all the people present at the funeral.

‘He could have understood just how much he mattered and just how many people loved him,’ she told them.

Ms Robinson has called for a major overhaul to the ‘broken’ mental health system.

‘Cliff would not want this to happen to anyone else,’ she told Daily Mail.

She also vowed that Hydr8tion N8tion will continue in his memory.

A fundraiser set up to ease the financial burden on the family has raised almost $6,000.

‘It truly is a lifesaver right now, helping us cover some immediate funeral expenses while we wait for Cliff’s superannuation to be released to assist with the financial commitments and debts left behind,’ Ms Robinson wrote on the page.

‘Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping make an incredibly difficult time just that little bit easier.’

If you or someone you know needs support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.

Roxy Jacenko’s husband, Oliver Curtis, has secured a landmark agreement for his artificial intelligence infrastructure business, as the company moves toward what could become the biggest ASX listing of the decade.

Curtis, who launched Sydney-based Firmus Technologies in 2019, signed a multi-year deal on Tuesday to supply compute capacity to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

The agreement is set to lift Firmus’ total data centre capacity to 900 megawatts across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, strengthening its position in the fast-growing AI infrastructure market.

Firmus already has two sites in operation, while a further five data centres are slated for completion by the end of 2028.

At its core, Firmus provides the physical backbone needed for artificial intelligence: high-powered data centres filled with advanced computer chips that OpenAI can use to train AI models and keep ChatGPT running for users around the world.

Curtis and his cousin and co-founder Tom Rosenfield have now secured deals with three of the world’s biggest AI companies – OpenAI, Nvidia and Meta – as Firmus prepares for an ASX float that could value the company at up to $30billion. 

News of Curtis’ major wins came months after he marked the nine-year anniversary of his release from Cooma Correctional Centre having been granted parole on his conviction of conspiracy to insider trade. 

Curtis was convicted in June 2016 of conspiring to commit insider trading using confidential information, and served 12 months of a two-year prison sentence. 

He was found guilty over confidential tip-offs provided by his old school friend John Joseph Hartman.

Hartman was an equities dealer at Orion Asset Management, which managed billions of dollars of investments.

Because of his job, Hartman knew in advance when Orion was planning to buy or sell large amounts of particular shares – and those trades could move the market price.

The court found that Hartman provided Curtis with confidential information about Orion Asset Management’s trading intentions on 45 occasions between May 25, 2007 and June 11, 2008.

Curtis used the tip-offs to make trades before Orion carried out its planned trades.

Curtis was 30 when he was convicted, but the sentencing judge said he was just 21 when he committed the offence.

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The duo had been best mates at Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview, the elite private Jesuit boarding school on Sydney’s lower north shore. 

Before they were convicted, the pair drank at city bars and made a total of $1.4 million from the illegal trades, splashing the proceeds on luxury items and trips. 

Hartman, son of the obstetrician to the Packer and Murdoch families, and Curtis, the son of the executive chairman of rare earth miner Lynas, were living together in a $3,000-a-week Bondi apartment at the time.

Hartman bought a $60,000 Mini Cooper and a $20,000 Ducati motorcycle. They took their friends on holidays to gamble in Las Vegas casinos, and paid for strippers at Cirque de Soleil.

They took a helijet from Vancouver to ski in Whistler, Canada because they would be ‘too hungover to drive’.

Even before things came to a head, the old school mates had begun to fall out with one another over money to support their lifestyle and Curtis’ gambling habit.

In August 2008, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission began scrutinising Hartman’s stockbroking account after it detected illegal trading.

On January 13, 2009, Hartman’s broker froze the $2.6m account, making Hartman believe he had been caught red-handed.

Five days later, he rang his father, moved out of the Bondi flat, quit his job and a day after was confessing everything inside a room to ASIC investigators.

Hartman was jailed aged 25 in 2010 and served 15 months in prison, and Curtis’ case finally went to trial in 2016.

During a tense three-week trial, Jacenko, who’d married Curtis in 2012, wore a series of designer outfits worth thousands including, on one day, carrying a black crocodile skin Hermes Birkin bag, reportedly worth $162,000.

Jacenko submitted a letter to the court after her husband was found guilty, pleading to Justice Lucy McCallum that Curtis was the primary carer of her children as she had a ’24 hour, 7 days a week’ job.

Curtis debuted on The Australian’s ‘Richest 250’ list this year with an estimated paper fortune of $1.29billion.

A young Melbourne man who was fatally shot after reportedly rushing to help a friend had been celebrating his engagement with family and friends only a short time before his death.

Footage shared online shows 22-year-old Daniel Hussein enjoying the celebration alongside his father, Taleb, and surrounded by loved ones, before he was later killed at a sports oval in Thomastown, in Melbourne’s north.

Mr Hussein, a young plumber who was due to marry later this year, was found with a critical gunshot wound about 7.30pm on Sunday. Despite efforts at the scene, he could not be saved.

In the moments before the shooting, Mr Hussein had reportedly sent an alarming message to relatives, telling them he believed he was being followed by a mysterious unregistered black Porsche.

His uncle, Abdallah Hussein, posted the engagement party video to social media, writing: “I never imagined I would one day be sharing memories of you.”

‘More than 150,000 people have seen your story. Thousands have cried, prayed, shared and spoken your name. 

‘But behind every view, every comment and every prayer… there is you. My Daniel.’

Abdallah said the video had been captured by his nephew’s father, who could be seen receiving a kiss from his son in the celebration video. 

‘I was supposed to be there,’ he added. ‘I was supposed to celebrate with you. I was supposed to watch you build your life. 

‘Instead, I’m sitting here listening to that voice … wishing with all my heart that I could go back to that day.

‘I would give anything for one more day with you. One more laugh. One more hug. One more “Uncle”. You were never just my nephew. You were a piece of my heart.’

Daily Mail has contacted the family for comment. 

On Tuesday, tributes flooded social media for the murdered tradie as detectives continued to hunt for his killer. 

It is understood Mr Hussein may have been in the reserve’s carpark helping a friend involved in their own dispute when he was targeted.

A crime scene was established on Sunday, with part of Victoria Drive cordoned off and multiple police cars at the scene overnight.

Apparent blood stains remained visible in the car park when detectives re-opened the area around 5.30am on Monday.

Mr Hussein’s brother, Ali, later told reporters his brother had died trying to help a mate.

‘His friend got into a brawl and called my brother,’ Ali Hussein said. ‘My brother pulled up (in his car) and they shot my brother. His car was still running.’

His brother claimed a dispute in Melbourne CBD a night earlier had led to the fatal shooting.

He described his brother as a ‘sensible young man’ who knew what he wanted in life after recently completing his plumbing apprenticeship.

‘He’d come home from work and go straight to the gym – he was into his fitness,’ he told The Age. 

‘Out of four brothers, he was the youngest. He’d learnt from our mistakes. He was straight-headed and had his own house,’ Ali said. 

As police continue to investigate the tragedy, online trolls have insisted Mr Hussein was embroiled in Melbourne’s ongoing tit-for-tat gangland war.

But friends and family have vehemently denied the claims.

‘People are quick at judging the situation when they don’t know. No-one should be taking no-one’s life – they should be leaving this earth caused by illness,’ one person stated. 

‘As the saying goes, “Never judge a book by its cover.” May his young soul RIP.’

A neighbour told the Herald Sun on Monday they heard screaming and yelling for several seconds before an SUV reversed out of the reserve’s driveway.

Mr Hussein jumped onto the vehicle, kicking at the bonnet and headlights, before falling to the ground as the car drove away, the neighbour said.

They said it was unclear at what point Mr Hussein had been shot.

‘He managed to walk towards the footpath and that’s where he collapsed,’ the neighbour said. 

Anyone who witnessed the incident, with CCTV/dashcam footage or information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Australians could soon have greater control over their social media feeds, with new reforms set to give internet users the option to switch off algorithm-driven content.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled draft legislation on Tuesday that would establish a new digital duty of care for online platforms.

A key part of the proposal, branded by the government as My Feed, My Way, would require social media companies to offer users clearer tools for shaping what appears in their feeds.

If passed, the changes would allow Australians to choose between a feed curated by an algorithm and one focused on posts from friends and people they follow.

‘This is not about giving government control. It’s about giving people control. It’s about putting choice back into the hands of Australians online,’ Albanese told reporters in Canberra.

‘This isn’t about government decision-making. This is about empowering people. And so, we hope that that produces good outcomes.

‘If people want to doomscroll, as you call it, that’s fine. That’s up to them.

‘But if people want to have a change, then this will provide them with the opportunity.’

Social media companies will be also required to protect people from harmful content online.

Harmful content will conclude the promotion of eating disorders, misogynistic content, pornography or things that glorify crime.

Companies could face fines of $100 million if they don’t enact the duty of care.

Communications Minister Anika Wells said the duty of care would build on the world-leading ban on social media for under-16s.

‘The digital duty of care is not about controlling adults online. It is about giving adults a choice,’ she said.

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‘Tech companies can still move fast, but they will no longer be allowed to break things because online harms have real-world consequences.

‘There is a global reckoning coming for big tech.’

It follows the government looking to pursue stronger penalties for social media companies as part of measures to bolster the under-16s ban.

Wells rejected suggestions th proposed online safety reforms would allow regulators to police political commentary or so-called misinformation, insisting the measures are focused on safety rather than censorship.

Asked whether the legislation could empower the Australian Communications and Media Authority or the eSafety Commissioner to regulate political views online, Wells said it was ‘not about censorship.’

‘It is about giving people control over what they see online,’ she said.

The minister said the reforms would introduce ‘basic safety standards’ and place obligations on technology companies to identify and mitigate risks on their platforms.

‘The focus is on harms caused by systems, tools and features,’ Wells said.

She said the proposed framework would primarily target illegal content for adult users, including ‘child sexual exploitation material’, ‘child abuse material’, ‘extreme violence’, ‘sexual violence’, ‘menacing, threatening or harassing conduct’, and ‘terrorism and violent extremism material’.

Wells said the reforms were also designed to give users greater control over their online experience.

‘Aside from illegal content, the reforms are about choice,’ she said.

Under the proposal, adults would be able to disable algorithmically recommended feeds and instead view content from accounts and creators they actively choose to follow.