Aboriginal Comedy, Condoms & Surfboards — Caddyshack Project

April 1, 2026:

Aboriginal Comedy, Condoms & Surfboards — Caddyshack Project

In the spirit of NAIDOC and celebrating successful Aboriginal-led programs, we would like to introduce or re-introduce you to Take Blaktion.

Take Blaktion is NSW Health’s flagship sexual health promotion program for Aboriginal people.

The Take Blaktion program uses comedy sketch videos featuring high-profile Aboriginal ambassadors to engage Aboriginal young people with culturally appropriate sexual health messaging. Comedy has a long history within Aboriginal media and Take Blaktion leverages uniquely Aboriginal humour to circumvent shame associated with sexual health.

Take Blaktion is a great resource for individual’s, communities, families and workers too.

The webpage has quizzes, factsheets and funny comedy video clips which address many sexual and reproductive health themes such as condom use, knowing signs and symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), how STI’s are treated and managed and what it’s like going for a sexual health screen.

Take Blaktion has had a long-standing partnership with many Aboriginal comedians, who act as ambassadors to the program.

You may recognise several of these comedians, as celebrities off ABC’s Black Comedy series. Household names such as;

Just to name just a few who have been ambassadors over the years, delivering all the cooee ups around sexual and reproductive health.

This year’s campaign has all new ambassadors, who will be revealed when the campaign launches later in 2023.

In line with the NSW Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Strategy, Take Blaktion aims to

“Promote a safe sex culture and implement prevention programs that are culturally appropriate for Aboriginal people to increase consistent condom use and health seeking behaviours.”

This is important as nationally, Aboriginal people experience rates of STIs at 2.5 x higher rates than their non-Indigenous peers and in particular experience higher rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis.

These STIs are preventable with correct condom use, therefore condom supply, education and empowerment need to be incorporated into community-based health promotion programs and initiatives.

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