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Leading researchers gather in Broome to tackle remote community energy affordability
26 SEP 2025
Leading experts from Notre Dame University, Australian National University and Western Sydney University gathered alongside remote community residents from Ardyaloon, Djarindjin, Wangkatjungka and Mowanjum and other stakeholders from Horizon Power, the CSIRO and the Kimberley Land Council to discuss solutions to energy affordability in Kimberley remote communities on September 16 and 17 2025.
Kimberley Indigenous Affordable Energy Workshop24 SEP 2025
Notre Dame's researchers are exploring solutions to energy poverty in remote communities – a widespread issue that leaves vulnerable people without power during prolonged periods of extreme heat. As part of this work, a recent workshop at the university's Broome Campus brought together researchers, community voices and policy experts to explore practical, research-based solutions aimed at long-term change.
Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have2 MAY 2025
Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have - An Interview with Vinciane Despret: University of Liège, Belgium, Iwona Janicka: Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics—Prague; Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic and Stephen Muecke: Nulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia
The following piece is a conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other. We interviewed Vinciane Despret in French, via Zoom on May 2, 2024;Vinciane was in Brussels, Iwona was in Prague, and Stephen was in Sydney.
Researchers tackle energy poverty in remote Indigenous communities1 APR 2025
Researchers Dr Kathryn Thorburn, Assoc Prof Stephen Kinnane and Lloyd Pigram from the Nulungu Research Institute are exploring solutions to energy poverty in remote Indigenous communities – a problem that sees some of Australia's most vulnerable left without power in extreme heat for extended periods of time.
Communities struggle through power cuts of up to 'two to three' times a week1 APR 2025
The University of Notre Dame Broome campus researcher Dr Kathryn Thorburn said transitioning communities to renewable energy could reduce the region's electricity bills. As part of a new research project, Dr Thorburn recently surveyed over 90 remote households in the regions to understand their experiences of pre-paid electricity.
A fierce tussle over a Northern Territory river reveals Australia’s stark choice on water justice12 FEB 2025
Anne Poelina Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council & Professor and Chair of Indigenous Knowledges & Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia together with Sarah Milne and Quentin Grafton both from Australian National University team together on Water Justice in the NT.
Recognition of Melissa Marshall as an outstanding female in Australian science
8 MAR 2024As part of International Women’s Day 2024, Cosmos showcased the achievements of 50 of Australia’s outstanding female researchers and scientists who were identified with the support of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) and Australia’s five Learned Academies. Our very own Director, Associate Professor Melissa Marshall was recognised as one of the 50 remarkable and inspirational women in Australian science.
What's in a name?
3 DEC 2023Stephen Kinnane’s powerful contribution to ABC Social Affairs Reporter Erin Parke’s podcast and report on the history of naming Aboriginal people in the Kimberley and Northern Australia.
Congratulating Aspire Award winner Melissa Marshall
13 NOV 2023The University of Notre Dame Australia is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Notre Dame Aspire Award is Dr Melissa Marshall from our Nulungu Research Institute in Broome.
‘Government all over us like a rash’: the broken service delivery system in remote Aboriginal communities
20 SEP 2023Professor Patrick Sullivan and Dr Kathryn Thorburn reflect on the findings of a series of Dialogues that were conducted in the Kimberley in 2018 – 19 and which focussed on the roadblocks to Aboriginal development in towns and remote communities of the Kimberley.
People in the Kimberley have spent decades asking for basics like water and homes. Will the Voice make their calls more compelling?
13 APR 2023Kathryn Thorburn and Stephen Kinnane.
Patrick Sullivan explores the development of Australian Aboriginal policy
17 FEB 2023Patrick Sullivan explores the development of Australian Aboriginal policy - Anthroprospective – Research as Everyday Literature.
The lie of aqua nullius, ‘nobody’s water’, prevails in Australia. Indigenous water reserves are not enough to deliver justice
23 DEC 2022Kat Taylor, Anne Poelina and Quentin Grafton, “The lie of aqua nullius, ‘nobody’s water’, prevails in Australia. Indigenous water reserves are not enough to deliver justice”, The Conversation.
The generous philosopher
28 OCT 2022Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world, respecting their right to exist and act on their own terms. Stephen Muecke.
Jalngangurru Healing links cultural healers with patients in outback Kimberley
21 SEP 2022Jalngangurru Healing links cultural healers with patients in outback Kimberley.
Judges go bush to learn about Indigenous culture, with aim to deliver fairer justice in courts
14 SEP 2022Judges go bush to learn about Indigenous culture, with aim to deliver fairer justice in courts.
Team explores reserve’s past
10 JAN 2017Dr Kathryn Thorburn and Anna Dwyer, of Notre Dame University’s Nulungu Research Institute, recently teamed up to embark on a social history project focusing on the former reserve...
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