Ms JODIE HARRISON (Charlestown—Minister for Women, Minister for Seniors, and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault)—The Which Way? Quit Pack pilot program is an Indigenous-led intervention program tackling smoking and vaping, the leading preventable cause of chronic disease and preventable death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Developed by a Newcastle research team, which includes Charlestown electorate local and Wiradjuri man Kayden Roberts-Barker, the program will go national after being awarded a $4.7m Medical Research Future Fund Indigenous Health Research grant through the National Health and Medical Research Council. Working under the leadership of Associate Professor Michelle Kennedy of the Hunter Medical Research Institute's Equity in Health and Wellbeing program, Kayden and his fellow research team members are building on existing research to evaluate the impact of the innovative intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents and adults. They have already supported more than a thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to quit smoking and vaping in NSW, Victoria and the ACT through the pilot Which Way? programs, and I am sure the expansion of the program will make a big difference in tackling this difficult and importance issue. Congratulations to Kayden, Assistant Professor Kennedy and her team.

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