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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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February 19, 2025
Every month, the NBPU TIS newsletter highlights a Tackling Indigenous Smoking team that’s recently posted something great on their social pages. This month we enjoyed one from the NT’s Big Rivers Consortium lead by the team at Katherine West Health Board. The Ngukurr community welcomed the TIS team to spread the smoke TIS messaging through…
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February 19, 2025
TIS Team and Location Mawarnkarra Health Service is funded to deliver TIS activities across the Newman East Pilbara IREG. In the East Pilbara region service delivery is provided by their partner Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service (PAMS). The region includes four remote communities (Jigalong, Parngurr, Punmu & Kunawarritji). The PAMS TIS team is committed to delivering…
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February 19, 2025
I’ll begin by wishing everyone well, particularly those of you whose young ones in your life have recently transitioned back into the schooling system. I empathise with all those parents with children going into school or preschool for the first time, since it can be an emotional occasion. I felt that through my grandson, who…
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January 6, 2025
Ready for a new challenge? Ninti One currently has vacancies in the National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking. These are identified positions and are only open to people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking (NBPU TIS) supports regional tobacco and vaping grant recipients…
December 19, 2024
You can now explore the latest edition of NintiNews for December 2024, where we celebrate our recent project successes and events. This issue features: Stronger Communities for Children (SCfC) update: The inaugural Youth Leadership Forum successfully brought together 17 dynamic young leaders from remote communities across the Northern Territory to promote Aboriginal employment and entrepreneurship….
March 19, 2025
Smoking and Vaping in the News
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…