Healthy Stores 2020

Online series

Webinar recording videos

HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD

Join us for our webinar series HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD inaugural event where we will be showcasing ‘good food store’ stories from around remote Australia and fostering critical discussion among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community allies on the role of stores for community food security. Since establishing a national working group including key Indigenous advisers in 2020 and through consultation with many stakeholders, the sharing of ideas has culminated in this on-line event.

This four-part on-line event will highlight the innovative and emerging approaches to the challenges experienced by community stores in providing a healthy and affordable food supply.

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Webinar times and themes

HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD event will comprise a series of short films as part of an online series developed around 4 themes.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing informaNicole Turnertion about joining the meeting.

Facilitator: Ms Nicole Turner, a Kamilaroi woman, nutritionist and chair of the Indigenous Allied Health Australia and NSW Rural Doctors Network is the series facilitator.

For any question about the online series please contact us via email: BASE-Health-Stories-Good-Food@monash.edu

  • Theme 1: Remote Stores: Healthy takeaways and employment opportunities (Completed)


    Thursday 3 June 2021
    11:30 -12:30pm (AEDT)

    Featuring community stories from:

    1. Arnhem Land, Northern Territory - The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) and Healthy Stores 2020 short story
    2. Darwin, Northern Territory - Karen Sheldon Catering and training company providing food to remote communities and training in kitchen operations for First Nation's Peoples
    3. Maningrida, Northern Territory - Wildfoods Cafe Karlabarrabarra, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
    4. Northern Territory and Northern Queensland, First Nations remote store employees share their work experiences, Outback Stores (NT) and Community Enterprise Queensland (CEQ, North QLD)

    Presenter:
    Stephan Rainow, UPK coordinator at Nganampa Health Council Inc

    Panelists:
    Khia De Silva, Nutrition and Health Manager, The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation
    Karen Sheldon, Director of Karen Sheldon Group

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  • Theme 2: Food supply, delivery, local food economies (Completed)



    Tuesday 15 June 2021
    12:30 -1:30pm (AEDT)

    Featuring community stories from:

    1. Maningrida, Northern Territory -  Wildfoods Enterprises and Tucker-Run (supplying groceries to homeland residents), Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
    2. Ti Tree, Northern Territory - Remote community garden supplying the store and a community meals program, Ti Tree Farm Garden Store
    3. Cape York, Northern Queensland - Local Indigenous run abattoir supplying local remote store, Seisia Meatworks

    Presenter:
    Graham Cook AAM, Non-Executive Director, Outback Stores
    Elaine Lawurrpa Maypilama, Associate Professor Charles Darwin University

    Panelists:
    Ingrid Stonhill, CEO Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
    Wayne Kala Kala, Chair Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
    Floyd Constable, Permaculturist and remote Indigenous Gardens Educator

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  • Theme 3: Food affordability and pricing for healthy food (Completed)


    Wednesday 16 June 2021
    12:30 - 1:30pm (AEDT)

    Featuring community stories from:

    1. Thursday Island, Northern Queensland - Fruit and Vegetables in focus (quality & pricing improvements), CEQ Thursday Island Store
    2. Laynhapuy Homelands, Northern Territory - Homeland stores: An essential services health model, Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation (LHAC)

    Presenter:
    Dr. Leisa McCarthy, Central Australia Academic Health Science Network
    Clare Brown, Nutrition Team lead, Apunipima Cape York Health Council
    Caroline Deen, Dietitian, Apunipima Cape York Health Council

    Panelists:
    Coreena Molony, Dietitian, Laynhapuy Homelands Aboriginal Corporation

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  • Theme 4: The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food
    (Completed)


    Thursday 17 June 2021
    12:30 - 1:30pm (AEDT)

    Featuring community stories from:

    1. Northern Western Australia - Bidyadanga Community Store: Use of nutrition promotion and social marketing for increasing healthy food sales, Boab Health Service and Cancer Council WA
    2. Alcoota and Ali Curung, Northern Territory - Sugar reduction strategies and community store policies: Engawala Store (Alcoota) and Mirnirri Store (Ali Curung), Outback Stores (OBS)
    3. Santa Teresa, Northern Territory - Uncle Jimmy says....ThumbsUp! Good Tucker Long Life store and nutrition promotion including the Good Tucker App, Uncle Jimmy Thumbs up! not-for-profit charitable organisation
    4. Northern Territory and Northern Queensland - Healthy Stores 2020 study: A collaboration between The Arnhem Land Progress Association (ALPA) and Monash University - features Healthy Stores 2020 research details and roll-out, research approach & community support

    Presenter:
    Khia De Silva, Health and Nutrition Manager, The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation
    Dr Megan Ferguson, Senior Lecturer-Public Health Nutrition, The University of Queensland
    Julie Brimblecombe, Associate Professor, Nutrition Dietetics and Food, Monash University

    Panelists:
    Raelene Banks, TO & ITC Care Coordinator- West Kimberley, Boab Health Services
    Aimee Sullivan, Paediatric Dietitian, Boab Health Services
    Graham 'Buzz' Bidstrup, Chief Executive Officer, Uncle Jimmy Little Thumbs up

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Webinar recordings

View our webinar recordings below

Disclaimer: These stories and videos are relevant at the time of first publication with the aim to achieve healthy food outcomes.

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

  • Theme 1: Remote Stores: Healthy takeaways and employment opportunities

    Date: Thursday 3 June 2021

  • Employment in Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander community stores (Part of Theme 1)

    Date: Thursday 3 June 2021

  • Healthy takeaways and employment in remote Australia - Wild Foods Cafe - Karlabarrabarra (Part of Theme 1)

    Date: Thursday 3 June 2021

  • The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation and Karen's Kitchen (Part of Theme 1)

    Date: Thursday 3 June 2021

  • Theme 2: Food supply, delivery, local food economies

    Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021

  • Food supply, delivery and local food economies - Maningrida Wild Foods (Part of Theme 2)

    Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021

  • Food supply, delivery, local food economics - Seisia Enterprises Meatworks (Part of Theme 2)

    Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021

  • Food supply, delivery and local food economies - Tucker Run (Part of Theme 2)

    Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021

  • Food supply, delivery and local food economies - Ti Tree Community and Garden Store (Part of Theme 2)

    Date: Tuesday 15 June 2021

  • Theme 3: Food affordability and pricing for healthy food

    Date: Wednesday 16 June 2021

  • Food affordability and pricing for healthy food - Gan Gan Community Store - LHAC (Part of Theme 3)

    Date: Wednesday 16 June 2021

  • Food affordability and pricing for healthy food - Quality staff, quality produce on Thursday Island (Part of Theme 3)

    Date: Wednesday 16 June 2021

  • Theme 4: The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food

    Date: Thursday 17 June 2021

  • The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food - Palya Mayi Bidyadanga (Part of Theme 4)

    Date: Thursday 17 June 2021

  • The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food - Engawala Store Sugar Policy (Part of Theme 4)

    Date: Thursday 17 June 2021

  • The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food - Mirnirri Store sugar policy (Part of Theme 4)

    Date: Thursday 17 June 2021

  • The 4Ps of marketing for healthy food - Santa Teresa in-store health promotion (Part of Theme 4)

    Date: Thursday 17 June 2021

Background

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities for many years have put in place initiatives to support healthy eating. Many of these initiatives have focused on community stores and other food outlets as these are major food sources in remote communities. Unique partnerships have formed between store owners, retailers and service providers in developing and implementing such initiatives. As a result, many stores now have policies that specifically aim to support healthy eating in the community.
  • HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD  online series will provide opportunity to showcase local food retail policy initiatives that have enabled better health in communities while retaining viable store businesses. It will also provide the means to advocate as a collective to achieve equitable access to healthy and sustainable diets for people living in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
  • We acknowledge the HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD 2021 online series 32 working group members and their supportive organisations who have brought commitment for Food Security and Health for remote First Nation Australian’s to this work, to develop the ‘Stories of Healthy Stores to equal Good Food’ for all communities.
  • You will notice the shared language for the terms Good Food throughout our series. These were collected through consultation with some of the represented remote regions of Australia. We are humbled by the sharing of this traditional knowledge for this exciting event.

It has been designed to facilitate:

  • Healthy stores and takeaways, community leaders, government and non-government policy-makers and service providers and academics to work as a collective to find solutions for a collaborative way forward to address food security and provide health-enabling stores and takeaways
  • Robust, honest and respectful debate and discussion on issues such as food affordability, a trained local nutrition workforce, health prioritisation and minimising harm from unhealthy food and drinks with retail competition and viability of remote stores considered, and capacity building opportunities across the food system locally and nationally
  • Opportunity for solutions created with community leaders and other experts, industry and policy-makers, based on built evidence that has health and wellbeing outcomes that are important for communities
  • Celebration and sharing of initiatives whilst acknowledging reflection of barriers to working in this challenging context and a focus largely on an improved food secure future for Indigenous communities