Marcia Langton has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since February 2000. An anthropologist and geographer, she has made a significant contribution to Indigenous studies at three universities, and to government and non-government policy and administration throughout her career.
The Prime Minister is committed to holding a referendum on Indigenous recognition in the constitution.
I have come to understand the difficulty of constitutional change, the problem of unintended consequence, and the invisible power of 'race' in our body politic. There are some of us who would argue that a referendum not be held if the outcome most likely is a Clayton's recognition of Indigenous people.
The mining super tax may have an unintended impact on those indigenous people who have settled Indigenous Land Use Agreements over mining projects.
The crisis in Aboriginal society is now an obscene spectacle, says Marcia Langton.