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1. Are the draft principles, and goals proposed appropriate and achievable? Are there any gaps or do you have suggestions for other that could be considered?
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2. What needs to change to ensure that First Nations people can access reliable, clean energy on an equitable basis, including those First Nations people located in metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Australia?
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3. How should government and industry support First Nations people to own and manage renewable energy assets for long-term sustainability and community benefit?
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4. What strategies are most likely to improve how quality information, data and resources concerning the clean energy transformation is developed and disseminated to First Nations communities?
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5. What is the best way to build First Nations awareness and knowledge of clean energy and who should foster and deliver these outcomes? Do you have any suggested examples?
Promote renewable energy through policy support, public awareness, and investment incentives. Invest in R&D, upgrade grid infrastructure, and engage communities. Encourage net metering
6. What aspects of the current regulatory environment that presently govern Australia’s energy system most impact First Nations ability to participation and benefit from the clean energy transformation? What strategies would be effective in reducing these impacts?
The Government's policy encompasses four key areas: a carbon price; innovation and investment in renewable energy; encouraging energy efficiency; and creating opportunities in the land sector to cut emissions
7. Which behaviours or outcomes should government consider incentivising through regulation, policy or programs to improve First Nations participation in Australia’s energy system?
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8. What is the best way to build First Nations organisations’ capacity and expertise in clean energy development?
Capacity-building funding is meant to support section 35 rights-holding Indigenous groups and their mandated Indigenous governing body as they work within and across their communities to build strong foundations
9. What is the best way that governments and industry can build their internal capacity to support First Nations participation and benefit?
Yes
10. What role should industry play in supporting First Nations develop their coordination and capacity?
Yes
11. What role do you think First Nations On-Country planning can play in realising benefits in the energy transition?
Yes
12. What is required to ensure First Nations Businesses are ready and able to participate in Australia’s Clean Energy transition?
ensure First Nations cultural heritage, knowledge and connection to land and sea Country is respected. government and industry create opportunities to build deeper collaboration, consensus and new ways of work with First Nations people
13. How could more opportunities for First Nations owned business be created for the Clean Energy industry?
Yes
14. What workforce development approaches will maximise First Nations participation in the clean energy workforce? What are the barriers to this happening and how can they be overcome?
Yes
15. To improve First Nations access to finance, what strategies are required?
digenous Business Australia (IBA) is a government organisation that provides workshops, advice, business support programmes. In some cases they may also provide business finance to eligible Indigenous business owners
16. What actions will lead to greater First Nations ownership of major renewable energy projects?
Yes
17. What are the key barriers to greater First Nations participation and benefit in renewable energy projects and how can they be overcome?
Yes
18. What can industry put in place when developing clean energy projects to ensure the cultural responsibilities of First Nations people are implemented throughout the project life cycle?
key initial step is for companies to prioritise regular and ongoing cultural competency training for their employees. First Nations people often have cultural rights and obligations to care for country, including cultural sites, which will require ac
19. What does an ideal scenario look like where First Nations people can effectively manage their Country and cultural heritage responsibilities in co-existence with clean energy assets?
For over 50,000 years, Australia's Indigenous community cared for country by using land management that worked with the environment. Using traditional burning, fishing traps, and sowing and storing plants, they were able to create a system that was s
20. What does Free, Prior and Informed Consent look like to your organisation? And how can it be achieved in practice?
Yes
21. Please suggest documented examples of best practice cultural heritage protection models or standards being applied in domestic or international jurisdictions?
Yes
22. What can government and industry put in place to ensure that First Nations environmental values and expertise inform the clean energy transformation and that Indigenous design thinking is integrated into clean energy projects?
For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians burned forests to promote grasslands for hunting and other purposes. Recent research suggests that these burning practices also affected the timing and intensity of the Australian summer monsoon.
23. Please provide any other comments and suggestion you might have in relation to the development of a First Nations Clean Energy Strategy?
Yes
