Maggie Walter (PhD) is a trawlwoolway woman of the pymmerrairrener nation of north east Tasmania and a senior lecturer with the School of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. Her scholarship focus is inequality and social policy with Indigenous peoples at the centre of her research and she teaches and publishes across these areas. Recent books include Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures (2008 Oxford University Press with Daphne Habibis) and Social Research Methods (2006; 2010 Oxford University Press). Maggie is co-editor (with Aileen Moreton-Robinson) of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, an elected member the Research Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Committee Group for the large –scale national Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), Footprints in Time and currently engaged in a project embedding Indigenous research methodologies into post-graduate programs in Australian universities.