An Evening With Marcia Langton

Indigenous Law in dialogue with Australian Labor

"Indigenous Australia is the foundational river of human culture that makes up Australia, woven with British traditions and ideas and values from all over over the world.  This we weave into a powerful multi-coloured chain that anchors us to the land and to each other."

In their new book, Law: The Way of the Ancestors, Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn have shown how Indigenous Law has enabled people to survive and thrive in Australia for more than 2000 generations. Nurturing people and places, Law is the foundation of all Indigenous societies in Australia, giving them the tools to respond and adapt to major environmental and social change. But Law is not a thing of the past. These living, sophisticated systems are as powerful as they have ever been, if not more so.