Marcia Langton, AO, PhD, FASSA, is an anthropologist and geographer of Yiman descent form Queensland. She is one of Australia’s most eminent policy advisors and public intellectuals. She has worked at the University of Melbourne since 2000, where she is now Associate Provost, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, and the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies. She was Co-chair of the Voice Co-Design Senior Advisory Group with Professor Tom Calma during the Morrison government. She co-hosts this podcast, The Deep End with Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn, and recently co-authored the book, Law: The Way of the Ancestors (2023), with Aaron Corn for Thames and Hudson: https://thamesandhudson.com.au/product/first-knowledges-law-the-way-of-the-ancestors/.

Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton. 

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Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. She is a Gamilaraay woman who became vision impaired after having measles as a child. Her PhD of 2016 investigated how to successfully teach Aboriginal students. Her current work is framed within Indigenous Knowledge and draws on her previous studies of education, psychology, sociology and criminology. She is passionate about higher education as a means of empowering disenfranchised and under-served people and communities. Before entering academia, she worked with the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Adelaide City Council Access and Inclusion Panel, the South Australian Minister’s Disability Advisory Committee, the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services, the AIDS Council of New South Wales, the Salvation Army, and the Oasis Youth Support Network. This week, she was awarded her first project grant from the Australian Research Council with Aaron Corn and Anthea Skinner, which aims to improve life outcomes for Indigenous people living with a disability through university education. 

Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton. 

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Robbie Bundle is CEO of the Songlines Music Aboriginal Corporation in Melbourne, which produces some of Victoria’s largest Indigenous music events and runs a dedicated youth program to nurture tomorrow’s Indigenous artists. He has been a musician and songwriter for more than 35 years. He describes his music as ‘eclectic’ and sings stories of Black Australia with the aim of effecting positive societal change. He has collaborated with many other notable musicians, including Archie Roach, Bart Willoughby, Kutcha Edwards, Dave Arden, Shane Howard, Dave Steele, and Neil Murray. 

Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton. 

https://www.yes23.com.au/