Award Winners, Merch Boxes & More!

Banana Award Winners & World AIDS Day Merch Box are out now!

November is a fun month for our team with photoshoots, birthdays (Diana and Maddy) and celebrations at the Trans And Friends Festival Illawarra (TAFFI) at the University of Wollongong on Sunday 9th Nov!

Our e-newsletter is packed with all the exciting things we are doing and ways for you to get involved!

Scroll through to find the 2025 Caddyshack Banana Award winners, get your On The Couch ticket for Continuing the HIV Conversation, order your World AIDS Day Merch Boxes & enter the Indigenous Surfboard Competition.

Plus read this month’s co-written blog post: We’re Talking About Non-Fatal Strangulation, listen to a past On The Couch episode: Education & Advocacy of Women Living with HIV, check out our book recommendation: A Language of Limbs and order free resources like condoms, cards, posters and lesson plans.

Peace, Love & Protection

Caddyshack Banana Awards

We love celebrating, elevating and shining a spotlight on those who are making a real difference in the sexual health and wellbeing of our communities.

The Caddyshack Banana awards recognises the outstanding achievement by individuals, projects and services/organisations who are working to promote sexual health and wellbeing of our communities.

Thank you to those who submitted nominations & congratulations to all the individuals, projects, services and organisations nominees.

Nominations closed last week and the judging panel have met and are excited to announce the 2025 Caddyshack Banana Award winners!

Individual winner: Aggie Fryday, Clinical Nurse Consultant & Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner with Clinical Forensic Medical Service in PARVAN

Project winner: Sticky Q’s podcast & co-host Adie Delaney, Sexual Assault Support Service, Tasmania

Service/Organisation winner: Carinya Transitional Living House, Lives Lived Well & coordinator Jess Manfre

Social Media Engagement winner: Sally Southall, Executive Assistant, Nursing & Midwifery Workforce, ISLHD

Scroll back through the past seven years of awards.

CADDYSHACK BANANA AWARDS

On The Couch Receives Award

Speaking of awards, Maddy Stratten recently received the Highest Ranking Abstract award at the Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference in the Social, Political and Cultural aspects category for the abstract and presentation titled On The Couch: An Innovative & Effective Sexual Health Education Tool.

Want to hear more about future plans for On The Couch podcast and vodcast? Get in touch!

COLLABORATE WITH US ON THE COUCH

Continuing the HIV Conversation

Join us as we host Josef Garrington (They/He) from ACON to continue the HIV conversation

Wednesday 26th November 10am - 11am AEST

Maddy and Josef will explore being allies and chat about the support network for people with a HIV positive diagnosis

ACON are a fiercely proud community organisation delivering campaigns and programs to eliminate new HIV transmissions and supporting people living with HIV to live healthy and connected lives

GET YOUR FREE TICKET

“No one left behind”

This is the World AIDS Day theme for 2025. World AIDS Day brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity.

We have started getting ready for World AIDS Day on the 1st December with our final tour locations for Indigenous Surfboard Competition in the Shoalhaven (see below) and upcoming On The Couch episode on 26th Nov (see above). We have also put together a free merch box with both Caddyshack and World AIDS Day merch.

Order your merch box and learn more about how we can be Ending HIV

World AIDS Day x Caddyshack Merch Box

A sample of Caddyshack’s merch PLUS a World AIDS Day red ribbon, pin, bag, pen and more

ORDER ONE FREE MERCH BOX

Help us promote the Indigenous Surfboard Competition!

Download and print our poster to put in the waiting room or noticeboard at your service.

The Surfboard has been on tour across libraries in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven.

Next stop on the tour is Nowra Library, go and check it out!

BLOG

We wrote this blog post sharing information and tools, in collaboration with Sexual Assault Clinicians who identified non-fatal sexual strangulation as a key issue

READ BLOG POST

On the couch

Education & Advocacy of Women Living with HIV from Positive Speakers Bureau & Clinical Sexual Health Nurse Naomi Hoffman

WATCH OR LISTEN

WHAT WE’RE READING

Dylin is a poetic genius who writes an honest story of the realities of growing up queer in the 1970s. These characters and stories will live within you long after the last word on the page

READ

Order New Cards

Caddyshack Project Business Card (A7 size) in a selection of our five brand colours - Mystic (Pink), Marine (Blue), Desert (Mustard), Light & Dark. Maximum order of 25.

Need more than that? Want to pick your cards? Let us know in the note section when you place your order.

ORDER FREE CARDS

Condom Dispenser Refills

Maximum order of 9 refills. Need more than that? Let us know how many in the note section.

Interested in joining the Condom Dispenser Project? Email us: islhd-caddyshackproject@health.nsw.gov.au

Looking for the bag of 144 Play Safe Condoms? click here

ORDER FREE CONDOMS

Find free condoms from one of our condom dispensers in 98 services in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven

FIND CONDOM DISPENSERS

We Acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this land on which we meet, live and work. We recognise their powerful connection to the land, waterways and sea, and to community.

We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, and emerging, to families, communities and Survivors, and to those that never made it home. As we share in our knowledge, teachings and our learnings, may we also pay respect to the knowledge embedded forever within the Aboriginal Custodianship of Country.