Anne Poelina

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Adjunct Professor (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing not elsewhere classified; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education not elsewhere classified; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community not elsewhere classified)

Broome, Western Australia

Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa (Indigenous Australian) woman who belongs to the Mardoowarra, the lower Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Poelina is an active Indigenous community leader, human and earth rights advocate, filmmaker and a respected academic researcher, with a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Master of Education, Master of Arts (Indigenous Social Policy) and currently Doctor of Philosophy (Health Science) with thesis title, 'Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Health and Wellbeing’. She is currently an Adjunct Professor with the Nulungu Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, (Broome) Australia, a Research Fellow with the Northern Australia Institute at Charles Darwin University and Chair, of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council.

Publications

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Nyikina Collaborative Filmmaking in the Kimberley: 'Learning to Listen with Your Eyes, and See with Your Ears'
Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council: an Indigenous cultural approach to collaborative water governance
Mardoowarra - Fitzroy River
Eco-activism and Social Work
A Coalition of Hope! A Regional Governance Approach to Indigenous Australian Cultural Wellbeing
Voices for the Martuwarra [Online Video]
Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency
Becoming Family with Place
Sharing a place-based indigenous methodology and learnings
Recognizing the Martuwarra's First Law Right to Life as a Living Ancestral Being
Sustainable Luxury Tourism, Indigenous Communities and Governance
Kimberley Transitions, Collaborating to Care for Our Common Home: Beginnings
Moving from reactive to proactive development planning to conserve Indigenous community and biodiversity values
Kickstart Your Literature Search
Country
Singing Yoongoorrookoo
Bookarrarra Liyan Mardoowarra Booroo [Online Video]
Singing Yoongoorrookoo [Online Video]
Balkinjirr Poem
What is Fracking? [Online Video]
Protecting the River of Life
Can the Fitzroy River Declaration ensure the realisation of the First Laws of the River and secure sustainable and equitable futures for the West Kimberley?
Australian Indigenous Water Policy and the impacts of the ever-changing political cycle
Guardians of the Mardoowarra!
Building research partnerships for sustainable and innovative Indigenous communities in Australia’s Kimberley: Outcomes of a ‘Think-tank’ workshop
Warloongarriy Law – First Law: Protecting the Right to Life for the Mardoowarra National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River
Mardoowarra's Right To Life [ Online Video ]
Productivity Commission Draft Report: National Water Reform 2017
A Lucky Country and a Fair Go
Report 1606 Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project
Kimberley water futures workshop - Exploring water governance in the Kimberley
Indigenous engagement with science: towards deeper understandings, Inspiring Australia : A National Strategy for engagement with the sciences
Our Community, Our Story [Online Video]
Our Community, Our Rights [Online Video]
Three Sisters, Women of High Degree [Online Video]
Places You Love - Anne Poelina [Online Video]
Duchess IS Paradise [Online Video]
Warlangkooroo-Kandarra: Stories of Noonkanbah Country [DVD]
Mapping and Protecting Our Sacred Sites [DVD]
The Elders’ Report into Preventing Indigenous Self-harm & Youth Suicide
Redstone Statement
Nyikina Mangala Mardoowarra (Fitzroy River): Sustainable Livelihoods on Country Case Study - Topical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge
Nyikina and Mangala Mardoowarra Wila Booroo Natural and Cultural Heritage Plan
Walmadany Corroboree [Online Video]
Anne Poelina: My Story [Online Video]
Mardoowarra Living Water [Online Video]
Investing in the Nyikina Language and Culture Hub [Archival Digital Video]
Robert Watson
The Majala Wilderness Centre [Online Video]
Making Singing Sticks for Warloongarriy [Archival Digital Video]
Kimberley Transitions, Collaborating to Care for Our Common Home: Beginnings
A report of the Derby/West Kimberley Project: working with adolescents to prevent domestic violence
Koongkara [Archival Digital Video]
The Nyikina Cultural Centre [DVD]
Nyikina Cultural Activities [VHS]
Keep'n It Real [DVD]
Martuwarra Fitzroy River Voice for Peace – World Rivers Day 2021
Yoongoorrookoo
Feeling and Hearing Country
For the greater good? Questioning the social licence of extractive-led development in Western Australia's Martuwarra Fitzroy River region
Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected
Martuwarra Country: A historical perspective (1838-present)
A Conservation and Management Plan for the National Heritage Listed Fitzroy River Catchment Estate (No. 1)
River relationships: For the love of rivers
Living Waters, Law First: Nyikina and Mangala water governance in the Kimberley, Western Australia
Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature
Martuwarra First Law Multi-Species Justice Declaration of Interdependence: Wellbeing of Land, Living Waters, and Indigenous Australian People
Indigenous Natural and First Law in Planetary Health
Martuwarra Fitzroy River of Life
Dreaming Country
Submission in response to: Managing Water in the Fitzroy River Catchment - Discussion Paper for Stakeholder Consultation
Warloongarriy First Law
Marlaloo Songline
The Two Snakes Dreaming
A history of destruction: why the WA Aboriginal cultural heritage bill will not prevent another Juukan Gorge-like disaster
Conceptualising Social Sustainability in Sustainable Luxury Tourism in Martuwarra, Northern Western Australia
The determinants of planetary health: an Indigenous consensus perspective
Regeneration time: ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing
How Aboriginal ways of decision-making can sustain global humanity
Sustaining humanity and democracy with Indigenous decision-making
Voicing Rivers
Learning Together for and with the Martuwarra Fitzroy River
Sustainable Futures, a view from Martuwarra
Personal Stories
Reflecting on Australia’s Current Legal System
How We Can Change the Current Legal System
Ancient Wisdom Dreaming a Climate Chance
Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians and Nature
Regenerative Learning: Hearing Country and Music for Healing People, Place, and Planet
A comprehensive analysis of well-being frameworks applied in Australia and their suitability for Indigenous peoples
A tale of two rivers – Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared voices and art towards water justice
Martuwarra Fitzroy River Watershed: One society, one river law
Polycentric self-governance and Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous philosophy in environmental education
Learning to care for Dangaba
How Indigenous wisdom can sustain humanity
Feeling and Hearing Country as Research Method
Maboo Liyan Booroo
Habitat
Tossed Up By the Beak of a Cormorant: Poems of Martuwarra Fitzroy River
‘Aboriginal Women’s Complaints: Ignored in Judicial Discourse’
Garuwanga: Forming a Competent Authority to protect Indigenous knowledge – Final Report, Indigenous Knowledge Forum
‘Why can't we speak up for ourselves…?’ Water Futures and Ethnographic Provocations
Waking up the Snake: