National Nutrition Networks Conference
About the conference
The Good tucker - good health conference, the first of its kind since 1999, aimed to:
- provide an environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to share thoughts, knowledge and experiences in food and nutrition;
- inspire people working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander food, nutrition and health area to support, share, network and learn together; and
- advocate for nutrition to be at the forefront of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health agenda.
The main themes - key action areas from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition Strategy and Action Plan, 2000-2010 - were:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition workforce;
- Food supply in rural and remote communities;
- Nutrition issues in urban areas;
- Communicating and disseminating ‘good practice' Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition initiatives;
- Family-focused maternal and child nutrition; and
- Good Tucker, Good Health.
Around 200 people from around Australia attended the conference, which was held on 11-14 March at the Alice Springs Convention Centre. Keynote presentations were delivered by Tom Calma, Olga Havnen, Michelle Elwell and Dympna Leonard.
The HealthInfoNet thanks the conference participants who provided written permission for us to display their photos here.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet director Neil Thomson ran a HealthInternet café at the conference.
For further information:
View website: National Nutrition Networks Conference ‘08
Program and presentations
The National Nutrition Networks 2008 conference program comprising 10 plenary presentations and 46 presentations in concurrent sessions was complemented by four workshops, a number of poster presentations and a session for State and Territory networking.
View conference program (PDF - 116KB)
View conference presentations
Recommendations and evaluation
The Nutrition Networks Organising Committee has collated a set of over 80 recommendations from delegates at the conference. This information provides a useful overview of people’s thinking on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition. The recommendations came from several sources: from the authors of the papers presented at the conference in concurrent sessions, from Keynote addresses, from opinions expressed in concurrent sessions and, from groups of concerned delegates and theme-based concurrent workshops. Recommendations have been grouped according to content into overarching guiding principles or key themes consistent with priority areas of the NATSINSAP. In some cases of ‘double up’, the recommendations have been summarised and condensed for ease of readability. The Conference Recommendations Committee has continued to meet to develop a set of priority recommendations and aims to further progress these.
View draft recommendations (PDF - 75KB)
View priority recommendations (PDF - 56KB)
In June 2008, the Conference Management Committee released the conference evaluation report. The findings and recommendations in the report are based on feedback from the Conference Management Committee, the Conference Recommendations Committee, and from the conference delegates who completed the evaluation questionnaires.
View conference evaluation report (PDF - 519KB)
For further information:
Sharon Laurence
Ph:
(03) 9321 1566
Email: Sharon.laurence@heartfoundation.org.au
or Judith Myers
Ph:
(03) 9321 1529
Email: Judith.myers@heartfoundation.org.au
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