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 from the development of renewable energy and associated industries will require strategic collaborations across industry, government and Indigenous groups informed by best practice internationally. 

Journal articles

• Lee V. White, Bradley Riley, Sally Wilson, Francis Markham, Lily O’Neill, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Napaltjari Davis, Geographies of regulatory disparity underlying Australia’s energy transition, Nature Energy, (January 2024) 
• Bradley Riley, Lee V. White, Sally Wilson, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Napaltjari-Davis, Simon Quilty, Thomas Longden, Norman Frank Jupurrurla, Morgan Harrington, Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Energy Research & Social Science, 99, 103049 (March 2023)
• Keigan Demaria, Bjorn Sturmberg, Brad Riley, Francis Markham, Exploring the feasibility of electric vehicle travel for remote communities in Australia Australian Geographer, 53:2, 201-222 (July 2022)
• Paul Burke, Fiona Beck, Emma Aisbett, Kenneth Baldwin, Matthew Stocks, John Pye, Mahesh Venkataraman, Janet Hunt, Zuemei Bai, Contributing to regional decarbonization: Australia’s potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific Energy, Volume 248, 123563 (June 2022)
• Lily O’Neill, Fiona Beck, Karina Nolan, Wenting Cheng, Renewable Hydrogen Will Be Produced on Land Traditionally Owned by First Nations People: Will Its Owners Benefit? Australian Environment Review 36, no. 6: 149-58. (March 2022)
• Thomas Longden, Simon Quilty, Brad Riley, Lee White, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Napaltjari-Davis, Norman Frank- Jupurrurla, Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia Nature Energy, 7 (1), 43–54 (January 2022)
• Renewable energy development on the Indigenous estate: Free, prior and informed consent and best-practice in agreement making in Australia Lily O’Neill, Kathyrn Thorburn, Brad Riley, Ganur Maynard, Esme Shirlow, Janet Hunt, Energy Research and Social Science, Volume 81, 102252 (November 2021)
• Janet Hunt, Brad Riley, Lily O’Neill, Ganur Maynard, Transition to renewable energy and Indigenous people in Northern Australia: Enhancing or inhibiting capabilities? Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22, 360-378. (March 2021)
• Brad Riley, Scaling up: Renewable energy on Aboriginal lands in north-west Australia Nulungu Research Papers 6 (March 2021)
• Lee V. White, Reza Fazeli, Wenting Cheng, Emma Aisbett, Fiona J. Beck, Kenneth GH Baldwin, Penelope Howarth & Lily O'Neill, Towards emissions certification systems for international trade in hydrogen: the policy challenge of defining boundaries for emissions accounting Energy, Volume 215 (Part A), 119139 (January 2021)

Short articles

• Vanessa Napaltjari- Davis, Brad Riley, Lee V. White, Thomas Longden, Simon Quilty, Michael Klerck, Norman Frank-Jupurrurla, Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity - Australia needs to better support remote Indigenous communities to prepare now Nature Sustainability Community (January 2022)
• Thomas Longden, Simon Quilty, Brad Riley, Lee V. White, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Napaljari-Davis, Norman Frank- Jupurrurla, Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity for Indigenous communities in remote Australia Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity for Indigenous communities in remote Australia. Nature Energy, 7(1), 11–12 (January 2022)
• Lily O’Neill, Jacqui Katona, What climate change activists can learn from First Nations campaigns against the fossil-fuel industry The Conversation (November 2021)
• Lily O’Neill, Brad Riley, Ganur Maynard, Janet Hunt Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects planned for their land The Conversation (August 2020)
• Brad Riley, Energy Security on remote Aboriginal communities during the Covid-19 Crisis, in Indigenous Australians and the Covid-19 crisis: Perspectives on Public Policy Topical Issue CAEPR 1/2020 (March 2020)

Working Papers

• Ganur Maynard, Renewable energy development and the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth): The fairness of validating future acts associated with renewable energy projects Working Paper No. 143/2022, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (June 2022)
• Lily O’Neill, Brad Riley, Janet Hunt, Ganur Maynard, Renewable energy agreement-making on First Nations land: What do strong agreements contain? Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (June 2021)
• Kathryn Thorburn, Lily O’Neill, Janet Hunt, Brad Riley Renewable energy projects on the Indigenous Estate: Identifying risks and opportunities of utility-scale and dispersed models Working Paper No. 130/2019, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (January 2020)
• Lily O’Neill, Kathryn Thorburn, Janet Hunt Ensuring Indigenous benefit from large-scale renewable energy projects: Drawing on best-practice from extractive industry agreement-making Working Paper No. 127/2022), Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University (April 2019)

Subbmissions

• Sally Wilson, Lee White, Brad Riley,  Submission to Queensland Competition Authority in response to Review of Guaranteed Service Levels to apply in Queensland from 1 July 2025 – Consultation Paper, (May 2023) 
• Brad Riley, Sally Wilson, Lee White, Submission to Utilities Commission of the Northern Territory in response to Electricity Industry Performance Code (Standards of Service and Guaranteed Service Levels) Review - Draft Decision Paper, (March 2023) 
• Sally Wilson, Brad Riley, Lee White, Submission to Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) in response to Amended Financial Hardship Policy Guidelines – Electricity Licences, (February 2023) 
• Brad Riley, Lee White, Thomas Longden, Sally Wilson, Simon Quilty, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Napaltjari Davis, Norman Frank Jupururla, Submission in response to: National Energy Performance Strategy: Consultation Paper, (February 2023)
• Brad Riley, Ed Wensing, Lily O’Neill, Submission to Inquiry into Australia’s transition to a green energy superpower (2022) 
• Brad Riley, Sally Wilson, Thomas Longden, Lee White, Simon Quilty, Michael Klerck, Vanessa Davis, Norman Frank Jupurrurla, Utilities Commission of the Northern Territory Electricity Retail Supply Code Review (December 2022) 
• Brad Riley, Ed Wensing, Lily O’Neill, Submission in response: Western Australia – Land and Public Works Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 (Diversification leases) (October 2022)