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March 19, 2025
Here are the latest additions to the TIS website: Events page: The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health Journal Club – “Beyond Co-Design: Upholding Sovereign Knowing and Community Rights to Develop a Smoking and Vaping Cessation Programme for and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women” (28 March 2025) World No Tobacco Day 2025 (31 May 2025) National Tackling…
News
March 19, 2025
We are starting to see reports of falling vaping rates in young Australians. This decline is thought to be related to the anti-vaping laws introduced by the Australian Government last year. Data from the SA Population Health Survey shows that vaping rates among 15 to 29-year-old South Australians have dropped by a third from 15% in 2023 to…
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March 19, 2025
The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health is hosting a journal club to discuss the study “Beyond co-design: Upholding sovereign knowing and community rights to develop a smoking and vaping cessation program for and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.” This discussion will be led by Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy from the University of Newcastle,…
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March 19, 2025
This month the National Best Practice Unit welcomes Telita Goile to the team. Telita has taken up a role of Executive Officer and has hit the ground running while attending a 2 day NBPU TIS planning workshop a week after starting her role. Here’s a welcome from our newest team member 🎉 Hello everyone! My…
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March 19, 2025
Just a brief update from me this month. I really had to share an important new paper from the Next Generation Youth Wellbeing Study, led by Prof Sanda Eades AO. You might recall that Prof Eades was the inaugural winner of the Tom Calma Award at the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference held in the Gold Coast last…
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March 19, 2025
The NBPU TIS team has been incredibly busy over the past month reviewing the performance reports we’ve received. A huge thank you to all the teams who submitted on time or reached out for an extension. As some of you may know, there were discrepancies in the due dates this round due to an error,…
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March 21, 2025
Back to School
Vaping has gotten real popular in Australia, especially with our young ones aged 14 to 24, so let’s encourage them to kick the habit in 2025! Last year, we shared lots of new dedicated First Nations resources to support the work already being done in your community to encourage and support young people to quit…