‘Destiny in our hands’: the Indigenous Australians joining the renewable energy transition

Jamie Woods, chair of the Nari Nari Tribal Council and land manager of Gayini, a vast property returned to traditional owners in 2019. There is a proposal to build a windfarm across part of Gayini. Photograph: Annette Ruzicka/The Nature Conservancy Australia/Nari Nari Council

Wind turbines may pay the way for Nari Nari man Jamie Woods’ grand ambitions for his people.

“We’ve always said we want the destiny in our hands,” says Woods, the chair of the Nari Nari Tribal Council and land manager of Gayini, a vast property in south-western New South Wales that was returned to the NNTC in 2019.