Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli
(Australian Radio Presenter & Co-Founder of 36 Months)
@wippa1 @36months.com.au

Michael Wipfli, affectionately known as ‘Wippa’, is one of Australia’s favourite funny guys. Host of the incredibly popular Nova Breakfast radio show, TV Personality and a loved all round family man. But whilst Wippa makes nearly every person he meets laugh with his quick wit and self-deprecating humour, and he has mastered the ability to create connection and bring joy, it doesn’t always mean that what is happening within, is the same as the light-heartedness that he projects.

Michael has been brave enough to previously share his vulnerabilities publicly, including his uncomfortable early overnight development as a kid going through puberty and his mental health challenges as an adult. Now a husband and a father whose children will soon be entering into the next phase of their childhood, Michael is faced with supporting them through not only the highs and lows of adolescence that he once experienced, alongside the possibility that they may meet their own mental health challenges, but this time he knows it’s with the added pressure of social media.

Spearheading and co-founding the issue at its core with 36 Months, a nation-wide petition to change policy and delay the age that kids can gain access to social media platforms by 36 months from 13 to 16 years old. Michael and his co-founder Rob Galluzzo are determined to give kids the chance to manage those terrific, yet at times, terrifying years of puberty, back to families without the layered pressure of social media until they’re better equipped with the maturity that comes with age, to cope with the highs and lows that social media brings.