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Marcia Langton

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Australian land tenure
land rights
native title
social organisation
cultural values
Harm Minimisation
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
anthropology
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Prof

Marcia Langton

 
Division
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Marcia Langton.

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Improving understandings of and responses to alcohol-related family violence for Aboriginal people

2021 - 2025
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Indigenous Engineering: interpreting engineering foundations of Budj Bim

2021 - 2024
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Closing the Gap Priority Reform 4: Indigenous Community Data Platform

2020 - 2023
Active
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Phase 1 - Indigenous preferential procurement program (IPPP)

2020 - 2021
Completed
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Indigenous preferential procurement program (IPPP)

2020 - 2021
Completed
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Indigenous preferential procurement program (IPPP)

2020 - 2020
Completed
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Alcohol management in Indigenous north Australia: policies and responses

Using mixed methods, this project aims to develop knowledge partnerships with Indigenous communities in three regions across northern Austra..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Update and maintain the agreements treaties and negotiated settlements (ATNS) database

2019 - 2020
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IMPROVING FAMILY VIOLENCE LEGAL AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN

2018 - 2020
Completed
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IMPROVING FAMILY VIOLENCE LEGAL AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER MEN WHO ARE PERPETRATORS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE

2019 - 2020
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Projects

Project Types

24

Research Grant

15

Research Contracts

3

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Marcia Langton.

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New thinking about old ways: Cultural continuity for improved mental health of young Central Australian Aboriginal men

Joel Liddle, Marcia Langton, James WW Rose, Simon Rice

Journal article  |  2021  |  EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY

Decades of reports and policy have drawn attention to the significant social and occupational impairment of many young Aboriginal ..

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Improving family violence legal and support services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Marcia Langton, Kristen Smith, Tahlia Eastman, Lily O'Neill, Meribah Rose, Emily Cheesman

Report  |  2020

This report identifies priorities for reducing and preventing violence against and improving services for, the Aboriginal women in..

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Family violence policies, legislation and services: Improving access and suitability for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men

Marcia Langton, Kristen Smith, Tahlia Eastman, Lily O'Neill, Meribah Rose, Emily Cheesman

Report  |  2020

This research investigated the pathways of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men through the family violence legal and support..

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Introduction

Nigel Curtis, Adam Finn, Adilia Warris, Andrew J Pollard, Annemarie van Rossum, Octavio Ramilo

Book Chapter  |  2019  |  The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

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Indigenous Australian children and the impact of adoption legislation in New South Wales

Marlene Longbottom, Hannah McGlade, Marcia Langton, Kathleen Clapham

Journal article  |  2019  |  LANCET

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The Alcohol Management Plan at Pormpuraaw, Queensland, Australia: An ethnographic community-based study

K Smith, Marcia Langton, Richard Chenhall, Penelope Smith, Shane Bawden

Book  |  2019

Alcohol is one of the leading causes of social, legal and health problems for Indigenous Australians. Since 2002, Alcohol Manageme..

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Joe Gumbula, the Inaugural Liya-Latin small letter Engärra'mirri Visiting Fellow

M Langton

Journal article  |  2018  |  Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture

This is my account of collaborating with Joseph NeparrLatin small letter Enga Gumbula and, in tribute to him and his teaching and ..

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For her, we must: No excuses time to act

M Langton

Book Chapter  |  2018

This edition of Griffith Review will ask how we honourably acknowledge our dark past, and best recognise this country’s status as ..

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Traditional Aboriginal Healing Practice

M Langton

Book Chapter  |  2018

Book accompanying the exhibition ;The art of healing: Australian Indigenous bush medicine, held at the Medical History Museum, Uni..

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MARCIA LANGTON'S WELCOME TO COUNTRY A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia

MARCIA LANGTON

Book  |  2018

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Services
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History
Anthropology
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Society and Community
Other Law, Politics and Community Services
Government and Politics
Arts

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Marcia Langton.

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Safeguarding our shared cultural heritage

Marcia Langton, Emily Cheesman, Meribah Rose, Sharon Ahmer, Alice Spencer

Customary warning: Aboriginal readers are advised that this article contains images and information about deceased persons.The destruction o..

November 11, 2020
pursuit Article
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Why the Black Lives Matter protests must continue: an urgent appeal by Marcia Langton

Marcia Langton

Glenn Hunt/AAPThis is an edited transcript of the 2020 Thea Astley Address delivered by Marcia Langton at the B..

August 5, 2020
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The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work

Marcia Langton, Tom Calma

Over the past decades, Indigenous Australians have fought to have our voices heard. Too often, decision-makers across the country have faile..

November 10, 2019
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The world is run by those who show up

Marcia Langton

What kind of leader am I, if I’m a leader at all? I am required as a professor to be an academic leader. As a result of that, and the pressu..

February 7, 2019
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Truth telling at Garma

Shaun Ewen, Marcia Langton

One weekend each year, the Yolgnu people from north-east Arnhem Land welcome visitors from across Australia to their land at Gulkula for the..

August 28, 2018
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Storm in a petri dish

Jo Douglass, Marcia Langton, Drew Berry

Victorian College of the Arts alumnus and international artist Cameron Robbins makes drawings with the wind. In various blustery locations a..

July 17, 2018
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What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco

Aaron Corn, Marcia Langton

Deadly Woman Blues by Clinton Walker was pulled from circulation after various factual errors were revealed. NewSouth PublishingSeldom does..

March 9, 2018
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Part 2: 2018 Summer reading

Andrea Carson, Rob Moodie, Marcia Langton, John Fitzgerald, Suelette Dreyfus, Malcolm Hopwood, Robyn Sloggett, Cassandra Szoeke

Looking for a good book to get your teeth into for the lazy days of summer?Part 1: 2018 Summer readingRead moreHere’s Part 2 of our recommen..

December 20, 2017
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What does strong political leadership in Australia look like?

Glyn Davis, John Howe, Nicholas Reece, Marcia Langton, Judith Brett, Megan Davis

It began with a chat over coffee in Carlton and culminated in a phone call 12 months ago that might be the catalyst for a new national conve..

December 5, 2017
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A rolled gold genius

Ian Anderson, Marcia Langton, Glyn Davis

Although many Australians have never heard of Ian Anderson, he has, in his characteristically understated way, moved mountains.Operating at ..

June 14, 2017
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Officer of the Order of Australia

1993

Member of the Order of Australia

2016

University of Melbourne
2009

Macquarie University Alumni Award For Distinguished Service, 2009
2009

Shortlisted for 2009 Prime Minister’s Prize For Australian History for First Australians
2007

The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Alfred Deakin Prize For Best Essay Enhancing Public Debate, 2007
2001

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Member

Commonwealth Review of Indigenous Training and Employment Programmes

Advisor

Empowered Communities Project (Jawun Indigenous Partnerships)

Advisory Committee

Australian Employment Covenant

Education

Doctor of Letters

Australian National University

Doctor of Philosophy

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) First Class

The Australian National University

Links

International Linkages

Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France

France

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

University of Dundee

United Kingdom