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Renewable Energy Development On The Indigenous Estate: Free, Prior And Informed Consent And Best Practice In Agreement-Making In Australia, Lily O'Neill, Kathryn Thorburn, Bradley Riley, Ganur Maynard, Esme Shirlow, Janet Hunt Jan 2021

Renewable Energy Development On The Indigenous Estate: Free, Prior And Informed Consent And Best Practice In Agreement-Making In Australia, Lily O'Neill, Kathryn Thorburn, Bradley Riley, Ganur Maynard, Esme Shirlow, Janet Hunt

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In Australia, large-scale renewable energy projects are being developed or proposed on lands over which First Nations hold rights and interests. Our review of the literature on renewable energy and First Nations peoples globally indicates that renewable energy projects are likely to present risks in the distribution of socio-economic and environmental impacts, as well as significant opportunities for First Nation benefit. This paper explores the conditions under which First Nations people with communal property rights and interests in their traditional land are likely to derive benefit from large scale renewable energy projects.

We examine ‘free, prior and informed consent’ (FPIC), …


'Growing' Food And Community In The Remote Kimberley Region, Anne Jennings Jan 2019

'Growing' Food And Community In The Remote Kimberley Region, Anne Jennings

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Brief history of localized food production in Australia

This article commences by contributing historical evidence of localized food production in Australia, starting with Aboriginal people, on country, prior to colonization. It then moves on to food grown by colonists, then addressing the depression and world war years, concluding with activities at the end of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.