WA fares better than other states, but stronger laws can lift standards by:
✅removing gambling from venues serving alcohol
✅maintaining bans on pokies in the community
✅enforcing mandatory maximum loss limits.
Full Healthway submission: www.healthway.wa.gov.au/wp-content/u...
Stronger gambling laws can prevent devastating harms including:
⚠️family and domestic violence
⚠️homelessness
⚠️mental health crises
⚠️suicide.
Full Healthway submission: www.healthway.wa.gov.au/wp-content/u...
ICYMI: Yesterday, I released my chat with Dr. Tepi Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity. Now available in audio-only and full video formats 👇
www.activetowns.org/2025/12/04/s...
YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY: Pls tune in today, Wed, Dec 3rd, at 2 pm EST for my chat with @healthtepi.bsky.social from Perth, Australia, about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity.
youtu.be/ZGIatCdRQVY
Many thanks John! And for those interested, here is our most recent article which outlines some of the background to this conversation:
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
Thanks for sharing! Here’s the original @jpahjournal.bsky.social paper for those keen to read more.
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
The War on … Walking and Biking? - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/09/t... via @usa.streetsblog.org, @keawilson.bsky.social, and @healthtepi.bsky.social
🚨 New ASPA Radio episode!
We speak with Dr. @healthtepi.bsky.social on his new paper about who are the enemies of #physicalactivity.
Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0bvc...
#PublicHealth #UrbanPlanning
The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️
✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling
✊Increasing population-level physical activity will not be solved by embracing apolitical actions targeting individuals…but by confronting the inherent politicalness of physical activity policy action to impact the population.
🚨New Paper Alert: Physical activity has enemies.
🚶♀️ 🌳 To sharpen advocacy, we need to know who our enemies are and how they operate.
DOI: lnkd.in/gf8E9fZb
🙏 @jpahjournal.bsky.social and coauthor team @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social @benjaminrigby.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social
City of Perth celebrates $4million in free parking initiatives.
Otherwise known as $4 million in subsidies for car dependency.
Free parking is a stupid concept that is unfair on the poor, locking in noisy and smoggy cities. 🚗 💨
I’d have preferred more 🌳 🌷 and footpaths for 🚶♀️.
I take my vote seriously for local elections.
Very interesting presentation! Would love to chat more. I'll follow up via email.
I’m excited for this conference! #ASPA2025
✅ I’ve submitted my first abstract, hoping to perhaps submit a second!
📅 Deadline looming at the end of this month.
Share your latest research, transformative programs, and policy-shaping initiatives at ASPA 2025 in Newcastle, Australia!
Submit your abstract by 30 June: aspactivity.org/conference-2...
#ASPA2025 #physicalactivity #research #policy #innovation
The answer for a lower cost of living is walkable neighborhoods!
🏆 JPAH's Best Best Intervention, Policy, or Advocacy Article (2024) 🏆
“Advocating for Implementation of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: Challenges and Support Requirements”
Free to read: doi.org/10.1123/jpah...
Congrats to the authors!!
"It is not the primary need of man to traverse distances with the rapidity of a motor car"
- Gandhi, Mohandas. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, 1909.
@healthtepi.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @keawilson.bsky.social @katjadiehl.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social
The directness of that Jeffrey Sachs quote is rare!
Peter McCue with a slide welcoming delegates to the workshop on physical activity
Peter McCue presents a slide asking why Australia doesn’t have a Physical Activity Action Plan.
Prof Jo Salmon presents a slide and overview of ASPA’s call to action
Peter McCue displays a slide to explain relationship between research and policy
Great to be supporting a very practical workshop at #Prevention2025, focused on how a political science lens could help bring a national #PhysicalActivity action plan to fruition to help more Aussies to move more.
Read ASPA’s call to action here: aspactivity.org/advocacy/a-c...
If you haven't yet had the pleasure, meet Tepi Mclaughlin, who recently published in JPAH a process evaluation study of the scale-up of a school-based physical activity program for adolescents.
doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0038
@healthtepi.bsky.social
Great new initiative from @jpahjournal.bsky.social and its particularly pleasing to see previous leaders of the ISPAH early career network @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social recognised for their contribution 👏😁
Fantastic to our paper led by @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social in this list! 👏 🥇 🏆
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
Thanks for sharing @grantennis.bsky.social
It'd be great to see if there are more like this...
More health campaigns that focus on policy support for changing environments, not individual behaviours?
Campaign looks great #TalkAboutFood
"For many years, many public health bodies have been encouraging people to eat healthily, but it is virtually impossible to do so within an environment that doesn’t support this." Dr. Gary Kearney, CEO, Safefood
30-sec Ad: youtu.be/qIxkQYOVpzs?...
In #Budget25, Beer excise is a bigger revenue raiser than the PRRT, one of our main taxes on the gas industry.
Failing to fix the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax was a missed opportunity. Our research shows big gas continues to be a systemic non-payer of tax, while Australians miss out. #auspol
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Dominic Malcolm et al show how neoliberalism leads to healthism, which promotes exercise which diverge from health maximising behaviours, and how this extends differences in PA uptake, which embeds the health inequalities PAHP is explicitly claimed to address.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
8 articles for changing your mind about physical activity, human movement, and health.
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@benjaminrigby.bsky.social
et al encourage us to pause and reflect on how our advocacy might inadvertently be limiting our efforts to try populations more active.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
