
Steve Kinnane is a writer and researcher, who has worked on a variety of community-based cultural heritage projects and has published on history, social justice and sustainability. He has worked as a producer, heritage officer and policy officer for independent research centres and Aboriginal community organisations.
Products of his research include documentary film, manuscripts, papers, policy and planning documents, archival collections, lectures and documentary photography. He is a descendent of the Miriwoong people of the East Kimberley. His work has centred on investigations of Aboriginal history, removal of children and the surveillance and control of Aboriginal community members by various state regimes.
Other areas of interest include growing Indigenous international movements and international resource conflict. His research at AIATSIS examined the incorporation of Indigenous approaches to 'country' in future resource management of our natural and cultural world. Steve Kinnane has also lectured at Murdoch University in Australian Indigenous Studies and Sustainability.
Steve is now lecturing at the Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Notre Dame, Broome, WA.