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Northern Institute
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Independent Social & Public Policy research & training for northern Australia at Charles Darwin University.

✊🏿Indigenous Knowledge & Governance 👪Population 🖊️Policy & Program Analysis 📘Education & Health 🌿Sustainable Economy, Environment & Climate
🚨 Australia’s 2025 wildfire season was huge: 10M ha burned, including 3.5M+ ha in the Tanami. NAFI remains vital despite funding pressures.
🔗 Read more from Dr Rohan Fisher, Senior Research Fellow at the Northern Institute, a leading expert in fire management and spatial data.
👉 go.cdu.edu.au/f6xa
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Northern Institute researchers show Australia’s energy hardship goes beyond electricity prices. Wealth inequality, poor housing quality & lack of emergency savings worsen situations.

🔗 The Conversation: go.cdu.edu.au/f6wa
📰 National Tribune: go.cdu.edu.au/f6xq
Why cheaper power alone isn’t enough to end energy poverty in summer
Australia’s energy system favours households with wealth, secure housing and flexibility – leaving millions exposed as heatwaves intensify.
go.cdu.edu.au
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
NI's creative research collective Miyarrka Media is showcasing their powerful digital intimacy installation at LENS International Photo Expo in the Netherlands!✨

📍 Nijmegen
🗓️ Until 28 June
📸 Milo Gil @milo.gil
👉 Visit LENS – International Photo Expo Nijmegen to learn more. go.cdu.edu.au/f6ra
Opening: LENS, International Photo Expo Nijmegen
Exhibition at WereldlabYou can reg
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February 4, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Ready to drive change and lead with impact? CDU’s Northern Institute is conducting its Master of Public Policy showcase event!
✔ Course insights
✔ Pathways & study options
✔ Networking
Plus expert Salli Cohen, author of Rollercoaster.
Stay tuned — big updates coming!

More info: go.cdu.edu.au/f6qq
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 PM
A warm welcome to Susan Edwards 🎉
Susan joins the NI family as Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Master of Public Policy.

Research interests: Public policy & governance, early childhood, social inclusion, policy reform.

#CDUResearch #PublicPolicy #Welcome
January 21, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Huge congratulations to Sharon Lockyer👏🏼 on receiving the 2025 Healthway Aboriginal Research Training Scholarship 🎉 She’ll study the Diploma of Indigenous Research with Northern Institute🤩, strengthening Aboriginal-led research & community-driven health outcomes🌱
📰 go.cdu.edu.au/f7mq #CDUresearch
Nyul Nyul health practitioner awarded WA research scholarship
A Pilbara-based Aboriginal health practitioner has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to undertake further study in Indigenous research.Sharon Lockyer, a proud Nyul Nyul woman from Beagle Bay, is ...
go.cdu.edu.au
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 AM
📣We’re calling for EOI's to temporarily fill an Administration Officer role in our Research Support Service team until 30 June 2026. The role suits someone who is IT savvy, computer literate, creative & brings energy + initiative to their work.
Learn more 🔗 go.cdu.edu.au/f7pq #greatopportunity
January 16, 2026 at 8:46 AM
🤔Want to lead research that shapes the north & the nation? 🌏
✔️Professor / Director role based in Darwin 🌴☀️🌊🐊🎣🥭🍹
😎Sunsets guaranteed🎴
🔗 go.cdu.edu.au/f7ia
January 8, 2026 at 6:03 AM
🛑Northern Institute will be taking a short end-of-year break from 19 Dec & will reopen on 8 Jan 2026.
We wish our friends & supporters a joyful holiday season and a healthy, successful new year 🎄✨ Thank you for being part of our story this year🙏🏼 See you in 2026! 🎉📘 #happyholidays🤩
December 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
NI's Linda Payi Ford features in the latest issue of the 'world of music (new series)' on ecomusicology, Indigenous performance, & relationships with Country + preface is written by her daughter, Emily Ford, weaving an intergenerational thread through the volume. 🌏🎵
🔗 wom-journal.org/wom/issue/vi...
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ATSI artists are invited to enter the AIATSIS International Women’s Day 2026 Poster Comp! Theme👉🏼Give to Gain – honouring values that keep communities strong💰Prize: $5000 + national promotion⏰Entries close 18 Jan 2026 🔗http://go.cdu.edu.au/f7iq🎨Image: 2024 winner Leah Cummins (Mayi-Kulan & Kalkadoon)
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
🗣️Help shape the future of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) languages. The Fourth National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS4) is OPEN & AIATSIS invites ATSI language respondents to take part by sharing knowledge & experiences to strengthen + celebrate languages for generations to come.
National Indigenous Languages Surveys
The National Indigenous Languages Surveys (NILS) regularly report on the situation and status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages across Australia.
aiatsis.gov.au
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🗣️'Projecting Voices' is out now. A 2025 ANUPress volume honouring linguist Jane Simpson, with cutting-edge research on Australian Indigenous languages & 2 chapters by CDU academics. 🔗 doi.org/10.22459/PV.2025 @anupress.bsky.social @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social
#CDUResearch #FirstNationsLanguages
Projecting Voices
<p>This volume provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of questions in linguistics research, mostly centred on Australian Indigenous languages. Written by world-leading experts, the chapters ta...
doi.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🌿 NI News: Balnba Edition 2025🌿
Balnba — a season of renewal and growth in the Larrakia calendar — marks a time of momentum at Northern Institute.

📖 Read the Balnba edition: go.cdu.edu.au/f7fa
December 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🎉 #Congratulations to 3 Northern Institute academics on their promotions announced this week.🤩🥳 Their dedication to research, community & teaching keeps lifting the Northern Institute’s work higher. Well done!👏 #CDUResearch #AcademicExcellence #ResearchExcellence
@charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
🚨MORE ABORIGINAL TEACHERS ARE NEEDED NOW!
Latest research by Aspro Tracy Woodroffe explores why more Aboriginal teachers are urgently needed & Aboriginal role models are one of the most powerful ways to inspire the next generation of educators. #CDUresearch #AboriginalTeachers #FirstNationsteachers
More Aboriginal teachers are needed now! - The Australian Educational Researcher
This article describes a 2024 Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success First Nations Fellowship twelve-month research project about promoting teaching as a career to Aboriginal people. The inn...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
🚨NI researcher Dr Deepika Mathur & colleagues highlight why #disasterwaste planning ⬅️BEFORE⬅️ disasters hit is crucial for faster, safer recovery. Their research shows how smarter governance ➕ empowered local councils = more resilient communities. 👉 go.cdu.edu.au/f7hq 💡 #CDUresearch #cyclonefina
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
'Northern Territory: Challenging Differences'
Politics and Policy in Australia's States and Territories Journal Will Sanders + Rolf Gerritsen
Springer Nature | 21 November 2025 | pp 197–227
Link to chapter 👉🏼 go.cdu.edu.au/f7ga #CDUResearch #ntpolitics #territorypolitics #ntlegislativeassembly
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
NEW documentary 'Careless' features a cast of older Aussies faced with leaving their beloved homes, it incl First Nations Elder & NI researcher Linda Ford, who notes remote communities often have no at-home care provision, reliable phone or internet connection. go.cdu.edu.au/f7gq
#agedcareaustralia
New doco is a clarion call to care more about Australia's aging population
Filmmaker Sue Thomson recently lost her mum. But before that, they made the beautiful documentary Careless together, which explores Australia's aged care system mess.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
🌟 NT Human Rights Awards – The Fitzgeralds 2025 🌟

📅 10 Dec 2025
⏰ 5:30pm refreshments & networking | 6:00pm awards
📍 Community Learning Space, CDU Danala City Campus

This plastic-free event is free — please register via Humanitix: go.cdu.edu.au/f7aq
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
✨New research out now!✨“Voice: A Third Space in Archaeology to Advance Indigenous Emancipation” — first-authored by Dr Kellie Pollard, an NI Indigenous archaeologist & researcher — is now published in the latest Australian Archaeology Journal (Volume 91, 2025 - Issue 3).
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0312...
Voice: A third space in archaeology to advance Indigenous emancipation
We discuss the standpoint theory of Indigenism and introduce its principles as relevant to the philosophy of research with, by, and for, Indigenous people. This philosophy is a pillar of Indigenist...
doi.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
✨NEW✨Croakey Health Media article highlights a unique Indigenous art research project created & led by Prof Linda Ford with Sharna Motlap,both NI #firstnations researchers & talented artists.🖤❤️💛 #CDUresearch @charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social
📰 www.croakey.org/powerful-art...
Powerful artworks document Indigenous knowledges on climate and Country
The power of art in documenting the impacts of the climate crisis upon the health of Country and underscoring the
www.croakey.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
🌿 NT Communities of Practice Online Event 🌿
Join us to explore key innovations in health, climate, and environmental challenges across the NT and Australia.
🆓 Free online event — no registration needed.
🔗 Learn more & join: go.cdu.edu.au/f7bq
🌱 Part of HEAL 2025 Conference | healnetwork.org.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
🌿 NI News: Dinidjanggama – Gurrulwa guligi – Dalirrgang Edition 2025 🌿
We’re celebrating NI’s achievements across three Larrakia seasons, highlighting our work from May–Oct 2025 — research, events, exhibitions, awards & our big move to CDU Danala City Campus.
👉 Online edition: go.cdu.edu.au/f7da
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
TODAY❗️International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women🛑25 November 🚫Digital violence is real violence
❌There is #NoExcuse for online abuse. 🚩 38% of women have experienced online violence & 85% have witnessed digital violence against others.
⛔️ www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM