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Marcia Langton (foreground) and Bob Weatherall (right) marching with protesters. Professor 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. Professor Marcia Langton was instrumental in the marches of the 1982 Commonwealth games and played an important role in the day-to-day organisation of community and actions from Musgrave Park. Her work in anthropology and the advocacy of Aboriginal rights was recognised in 1993 when she was made a member of the Order of Australia. She became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2001 and was awarded the inaugural Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year in 2002. Uncle Bob is a Gumulray elder who worked for many years at the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA). FAIRA was heavily involved in the political action taken during the Commonwealth Games. As CEO of FAIRA in 1982, Uncle Bob mustered national and international support in the calls for a boycott of the Games. He went as far abroad as Africa to the African Unity of Sport to call on those Commonwealth Countries to join the cause.