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The release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change agreement highlighted the importance of global sustainability internationally. Here, we outline a vision and strategies for developing northern Australia that demonstrate how a focus on sustainable prosperity can both expand historical approaches and current government plans and integrate the biophysical realities with the social, political, and cultural characteristics of the region. We highlight examples of the significant horizontal and vertical integration opportunities that this expanded vision and related strategies provide for (a) 'land' (carbon farming, targeted food production systems, and native title arrangements); (b) 'water' (water resources management); (c) 'energy' (renewable energy production, storage, and distribution); (d) 'workforce' (culturally appropriate ecotourism, Indigenous ranger programs, and protected area management); (e) 'knowledge services' (health care and innovative employment opportunities); and (f) 'governance' (greater participatory governance). We found that realisation of even 10% of these emerging opportunities over the next 10 years alone could result in economic growth worth over AUD 15 billion and 15,000+ jobs for northern Australia as well as the further ecological and social benefits derived from a sustainable prosperity strategy.

Historian Patrick Wolfe, in a recent article 'The Settler Complex', spoke about settler consternation that 'arises when Aboriginal artists have the temerity to lapse into a realism that makes the miseries of dispossession recognisable.'

Abstract The historian Patrick Wolfe reminds us that the settler colonial logic of eliminating native societies to gain unrestricted access to their territory is not a phenomenon confined to the distant past. As Wolfe (2006, p. 388) writes, “settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.” In the Gulf of Carpentaria region in Australia’s Northern Territory this settler colonial “logic of elimination” continues through mining projects that extract capital for transnational corporations while contaminating Indigenous land, overriding Indigenous law and custom and undermining Indigenous livelihoods. However, some Garawa, Gudanji, Marra, and Yanyuwa peoples are using creative ways to fight back, exhibiting “story paintings” to show how their people experience the destructive impacts of mining. We cannot know yet the full impact of this creative activism. But their body of work suggests it has the potential to challenge colonial institutions from below, inspiring growing networks of resistance and a collective meaning-making through storytelling that is led by Indigenous peoples on behalf of the living world.

Discusses the work of the Waralungku Artists, whose paintings were on show at The Cross Art Projects, Sydney from 12th April until 10th May 2013. Dealing with issues relating to their experience as settlers, and its sometimes violent history, the acrylic paintings of Garrwa and Yanyuwa narrative artists Jacky Green, Stewart Hoosan, Nancy McDinny and Myra Rory expose the darker details of the settler experience, with its unsavoury elements of murder, sexual abuse and brutality. The stories behind specific artworks of all four artists are described at length, revealing a truth which has been long been hidden.

Over the past decade they have taken control of fire, reducing late-season wildfires by 87% across the 20,000 km2 of land they manage, replacing the boom-and-bust cycle of wildfires with an early-season mosaic burning regime that protects habitat and has seen a considerable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Since the development of their cultural and natural resource management work many more Waanyi and Garawa people visit their country. [...]when outsiders participate in these indigenousIed projects instead of making indigenous peoples participate in externally defined, top-down government programs, as is the dominant practice, both indigenous socio-economic circumstances and biodiversity outcomes can greatly improve.

The release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change agreement highlighted the importance of global sustainability internationally. Here, we outline a vision and strategies for developing northern Australia that demonstrate how a focus on sustainable prosperity can both expand historical approaches and current government plans and integrate the biophysical realities with the social, political, and cultural characteristics of the region. We highlight examples of the significant horizontal and vertical integration opportunities that this expanded vision and related strategies provide for (a) land (carbon farming, targeted food production systems, and native title arrangements); (b) water (water resources management); (c) energy (renewable energy production, storage, and distribution); (d) workforce (culturally appropriate ecotourism, Indigenous ranger programs, and protected area management); (e) knowledge services (health care and innovative employment opportunities); and (f) governance (greater participatory governance). We found that realisation of even 10% of these emerging opportunities over the next 10 years alone could result in economic growth worth over AUD 15 billion and 15,000+ jobs for northern Australia as well as the further ecological and social benefits derived from a sustainable prosperity strategy.

The Abbott government is seeking to sever Indigenous peoples’ cultural, spiritual and economic relationships with their land and other natural resources, while also breaking down Indigenous social relationships and kin structures. We are told this is being done ‘to remove the passive welfare trap’. Facilitating the involuntary mobility of Indigenous Australians off their ancestral lands to areas where better education and job opportunities exist is not new. It was also one of the underlying principles of the 2008 Council of Australian Government’sNational Indigenous Reform Agreement (Closing the Gap)(COAG 2008: E-79). It is also evident in the recent Forrest