Julie D. Finlayson is a social anthropologist driven by a passionate belief in, and history of applied work in Indigenous Australia. This has led to work in native title, community development, Indigenous cultural tourism and adventures as a DJ for an Indigenous community radio station. She has also worked in various Indigenous program areas in the Australian Public Service. Julie is a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society. In recent years she has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Native Title Anthropology at the Australian National University, where she facilitates professional development activities, workshops and conferences for anthropologists working in native title.
Frances Morphy is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. In her working life she has moved between academia and publishing, having been a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, Oxford in the 1970s and 1980s. Her academic background is in anthropology and linguistics, and she was an expert witness in the Blue Mud Bay native title-land rights case (Gawirrin Gumana v Northern Territory of Australia (No. 2) [2005]). With Bill Arthur, she is general editor of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia (2005; 2nd edn 2019).