The National TIS Workers Workshop was held on the lands of the Larrakia people in Garramilla (Darwin) on 11-12 June 2025. This workshop was one of the largest gatherings of TIS workers, partners, experts and supporters of the TIS program.
NBPU TIS National TIS Workers Workshop Report 11-12 June 2025 – This report provides a summary of the workshop and feedback from attendees.
Please note – some of the presentations from the workshop are not available at this time.
Prof Tom Calma AO, National Coordinator Tackling Indigenous Smoking – Opening Address
This presentation from Prof Tom Calma AO, National Coordinator Tackling Indigenous Smoking includes information on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population; smoking rates by geographic region; and TIS successes and challenges.
Victorian Aboriginal Health Service – Flip the Vape Campaign
This presentation provides information about The Koori Way’s Flip the Vape campaign, including their events, video tutorials, mailing list, campaign development and rollout, partnerships, and the impact of the campaign.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing – Update
This presentation from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing provides information on smoking rates, key priorities for TIS, the TIS Guidelines, and changes to tobacco products from 1 July 2025.
Which Way? National rollout of Women’s kits and Elevate: Vape and Tobacco endgame for youth
This presentation provides information on the Which Way? Women’s and Youth Programs. It covers topics such as the Women’s Kits, the Youth Program approach and overview, sessions covered in the Youth Program, and Youth Program resources.
Sydney Swans and Mala’la – Smoking/Vaping Education campaign and ‘Kick the Habit’ Footy Festival
This presentation provides information about the Sydney Swans and Mala’la Health Service Aboriginal Corporation’s Kick the Habit campaign, and the Sydney Swans and Na Joomelah TIS team’s Make It A Hard Pass On Vapes and Smokes campaign.
IUIH – Queensland Mass Media Campaign
This presentation provides information on Deadly Choices’ Smoking in Pregnancy Campaign, including its development, key findings that informed the campaign, the concept process, rollout/delivery, opportunities and learnings, and the evaluation.
Apunipima Cape York Health Council – Remote communities
This presentation provides information on the Apunipima Cape York Health Council TIS X Grand Trine Video Project, including what they did and when, the activity design, who they worked with, the calls to action, monitoring and evaluation, and lessons for next time.
Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services – Remote communities
This presentation provides information on the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services TIS team, including which remote communities they work in, why it is important to work in remote communities, new resources they have developed, and why TIS is important in the Kimberley.
Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service – Pregnant women and families
This presentation provides information about Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service’s Wugen Wal-Yan KEMH and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital education sessions.
Galambila Aboriginal Corporation – Youth
This presentation provides information on Ready.Quit.Solid. work, alongside a taskforce and young people in the community, to address and raise awareness around the sexual assault risks involved with young people buying vapes.
Donna Holden – Building Successful Partnerships
This presentation from Donna Holden provides information on partnering fundamentals for TIS teams.
Yadu Health Aboriginal Corporation and SAWCAN – Sharing Our Stories
This presentation provides information on partnerships from the Puyu Wiya TIS team.
Na Joomelah, La Perouse Land Council – Sharing Our Stories
This presentation provides information about La Perouse Land Council’s Na Joomelah TIS team, including their engagement, content of their education sessions, activations, and challenges.
Grand Pacific Health – Sharing Our Stories
This presentation provides information about how the We Breathe TIS team made a community driven TV commercial.
Mawarnkarra Health Service – Sharing Our Stories
This presentation provides information about how Mawarkarra Health Service’s TIS team uses cultural best practices for better engagement in remote WA.
NBPU TIS and Origin Digital
This session provided an update on progress on the TIS website app and gathered feedback from TIS Workers on a prototype version of the app.
Claudine Thornton Creative – A Month’s Worth of Social Posts in Under 30 Minutes: The TIS Content Ideas Generator
This presentation from Claudine Thornton provides information on how to generate content ideas for TIS social media. It includes a content wheel workbook, a blank TIS content wheel and a content wheel with topics.
Lena Etuk, CIRCA – How’s the TIS Program going so far? Learning from CIRCA’s bird’s eye view
This presentation provides information on CIRCA’s evaluation of the implementation of TIS, including the Wave 1 methods, areas of strength, opportunities for improvement, levers for improvement and change, and what’s next.
Raglan Maddox, ANU – ANU evaluation
A/Prof Raglan Maddox from Australian National University (ANU) provided TIS teams at the workshop with a suite of materials that can be accessed here.
