News

April 1, 2026

What’s New on the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Website

New to the TIS website

• New Resource to Support Activities:
  • Rise Up Campaign assets: Rise Up is a national TIS campaign focused on standing together for health and against industry harm. The National Best Practice Unit – Tackling Indigenous Smoking (NBPU TIS) commissioned proud Ngiyampaa Wongaibon woman Claudine Thornton to develop a culturally grounded, ready-to-use bank of social media images and brand logo, giving teams practical tools they can immediately download, use and adapt for their local communities.

  New TIS Team Resource:

  • There is a new music video from Top End TIS: Gunbalanya – No bakki!

  New to the TIS Team Activities page:

  • Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service (Free, Fresh and Fit) have updated their dedicated page to showcase the latest work they’ve been doing in their community.

  New to the Events page:

  • World No Tobacco Day 2026.

  New to the Publications page:

  • Cultural commodities alongside commercial tobacco targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia
  • Eradication of commercial tobacco related disease and death
  • The Ottawa Charter: Indigenous sovereignty, resistance, and health promotion at 40
  • Policy incoherence: leadership needed to combat illicit tobacco and end tobacco oversupply.

  Updated factsheet:

  • The NRT for Smoking Cessation Factsheet from the NBPU TIS has been updated. While TIS teams aren’t funded to provide smoking or vaping cessation support, it is still important to have up-to-date knowledge of the support available to individuals wanting to quit, as this can inform TIS population health promotion campaigns and educational activities: NRT for Smoking Cessation Factsheet.