Gap

• A key priority of the strategy is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking and Closing the Gap.
• Here’s why that’s urgently needed and what needs to happen next to reduce smoking rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Tobacco is still a killer

• For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, more than a third of all deaths are caused by tobacco.
• Over the past decade we have lost more than 10,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives due to smoking.
• Multiple policy failures beyond health – from poverty, education, employment, housing, family removals, dislocation and the systematic embedding of tobacco as rations in lieu of wages – mean Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are disproportionately impacted by the harms of Big Tobacco.

We know what works

• This makes the case for targeted approaches, including local level campaigns, reinforced by general, national activity.
• Audiences engage with the message when they can see themselves and their community members (sometimes actually) in the advertising.
• This was created by Indigenous agency Carbon Media, starring musician Fred Leone alongside real stories from community members.
• When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people lead and promote smoke-free behaviours, communities are more interested in quitting.

What works? Product, price, place and promotion

• Social marketing campaigns, like the ones we’ve mentioned, really work well when they take on the Four Ps of product, price, place and promotion.
• This is where the rest of the National Tobacco Strategy comes in.
• Place We have known about the harms of commercial tobacco since at least 1950.
• Promotion The commitment to close any last promotional loopholes for tobacco and e-cigarettes, particularly online is also important, along with local and national anti-smoking campaigns.

What we also need

• Targeted approaches are critical and can be effective, but they need to be supported by bigger, whole of population structural changes.
• Lisa J Whop receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council.
• Michelle Kennedy receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund and the National Heart Foundation.

• "Bridging the Gap" provides insight to challenges that the preparedness and response community face before, during, and after crises.
• Whether it is communications, training or exercises, biological implications, and anything in between, SummitET SMEs engage agencies and organizations in conversation to work towards strong, practical preparedness solutions.
• "Bridging the Gap leverages our expansive network and areas of expertise to provide views with a multi-disciplinary and plain language approach to timely preparedness topics.
• The hosts will help audiences bridge the gap between emerging threats in the news and implications, response challenges, and learning opportunities.

• This is a supplementary report to Financing the Transition: How to make the money flow for a net-zero economy , published in March 2023.
• These are needed to phase down coal generation earlier than is economic, limit deforestation, and pay for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• Many reports have estimated the cost per tonne of CO2 saved from avoiding deforestation but few have attempted to estimate what it would cost to put a total end to deforestation.
• The ETC's new report, Financing the transition: the costs of avoiding deforestation, estimates the order of magnitude of concessional/grant payments required to compensate landowners for not cutting down tropical forests for profit (e.g., to raise cattle or grow commodities).

• They told us that they hoped the recent visibility of the turban in fashion collections, police uniform and advertising campaigns would help to dilute the stigma surrounding the turban.
• In recent years, several projects have sought to promote Sikhism positively in an effort to reclaim narratives around the turban.
• The Sikh code of discipline – the Rehat Maryada – states that Sikh men must cover their heads.
• While most Sikhs in the UK and around the world do not wear the turban, it remains the most recognisable article of faith for adult Sikh men and women.
• There has been a Sikh presence in Britain for almost 160 years, but Sikh migration to the UK mostly started in the 1950s.
• When I meditate with my turban on my head, I feel happy and very good, the turban concentrates those happy feelings.
• When I meditate with my turban on my head, I feel happy and very good, the turban concentrates those happy feelings.