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Indigenous people in Australia's North West stand to gain much from the development of renewable energy on their traditional lands, but only if the necessary policy and financial scaffolding is in place. Ensuring multi-generational benefit will require strategic collaboration across industry, government and Indigenous groups informed by international best practice.

Project team

ZCEAP fellow

• Brad Riley

ANU research team contributors

• Dr Thomas Longden
• Dr Lorrae McArthur
• Dr Lee White

Journal articles

• Lee V. White et al., Geographies of regulatory disparity underlying Australia’s energy transition , Nature Energy (January 2024)
• Bradley Riley et al., Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during COVID-19 , Energy Research & Social Science (March 2023)
• Keigan Demaria et al., Electric vehicle travel feasibility for remote communities , Australian Geographer (July 2022)
• Paul Burke et al., Australia’s potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific , Energy (June 2022)
• Lily O’Neill et al., Renewable hydrogen on First Nations land: who benefits? , Australian Environment Review (March 2022)
• Thomas Longden et al., Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia , Nature Energy (January 2022)
• Lily O’Neill et al., Renewable energy on the Indigenous estate and best-practice agreements , Energy Research and Social Science (November 2021)
• Janet Hunt et al., Renewable energy transition and Indigenous capabilities , Journal of Human Development and Capabilities (March 2021)
• Brad Riley, Renewable energy on Aboriginal lands in north-west Australia , Nulungu Research Papers (March 2021)
• Lee V. White et al., Emissions certification systems for hydrogen trade , Energy (January 2021)

Short articles

• Vanessa Napaltjari-Davis et al., Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity , Nature Sustainability Community (January 2022)
• Thomas Longden et al., Energy insecurity for Indigenous communities in remote Australia , Nature Energy (January 2022)
• Lily O’Neill, Jacqui Katona, Lessons from First Nations campaigns against fossil fuels , The Conversation (November 2021)
• Lily O’Neill et al., Why Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects , The Conversation (August 2020)
• Brad Riley, Energy security in remote Aboriginal communities during COVID-19 , CAEPR (March 2020)

Working papers

• Ganur Maynard, Renewable energy development and the Native Title Act (June 2022)
• Lily O’Neill et al., Renewable energy agreements on First Nations land (June 2021)
• Kathryn Thorburn et al., Renewable energy projects on the Indigenous estate (January 2020)
• Lily O’Neill et al., Ensuring Indigenous benefit from renewable energy projects (April 2019)

Submissions

• Sally Wilson et al., Submission to Queensland Competition Authority (May 2023)
• Brad Riley et al., Submission to NT Utilities Commission (March 2023)
• Sally Wilson et al., Submission to Economic Regulation Authority (February 2023)
• Brad Riley et al., National Energy Performance Strategy submission (February 2023)
• Brad Riley et al., Submission on Australia’s green energy superpower transition (2022)
• Brad Riley et al., NT Electricity Retail Supply Code Review (December 2022)
• Brad Riley et al., WA Land and Public Works Legislation Amendment submission (October 2022)