00:02Go Deadly Cup!
00:04Starting conversations through sport to make talking about health deadly.
00:09Health is a vehicle for self-determination but it's also a vehicle to get around each other and support each
00:15other
00:15and help everyone else to level up and be deadly as well.
00:20Darwin's Deadly Cup Carnival bringing together 200 Junior Rugby League players from across the top end.
00:26This year's all about promoting prevention without playing around.
00:31If you don't take care of yourself then you won't be able to do all these things like play rugby.
00:35It keeps you healthy. If you want to have fun and enjoy life, you've got to be healthy, take care
00:43of your gut health,
00:44even your mental health. Mental health is really important.
00:46The Buy Mob for Mob event encouraging people to share their concerns with culturally safe health services.
00:52It's so vital. Our people, as we know, there's a deficit lens out there in terms of our health conditions
01:00but we know across the Northern Territory if we can have a workforce that is our Aboriginal and Torres Strait
01:05Islander
01:06mob looking after our people, then we're in the best care possible.
01:09The latest Federal Government data reveals more than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths were entirely avoidable.
01:17With coronary heart disease and diabetes among the leading causes of death,
01:21organisers say events like this one are key to tackling preventable health problems head on.
01:27From a health perspective, sport is the pinnacle of it and it just allows us to keep ourselves fit,
01:33to focus on the things that make us feel good.
01:35Bringing the community together to kick off NAIDOC Week.
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