Dr Margaret Brady is a social anthropologist, who has worked with Northern Territory, South Australian and Western Australian First Nation peoples since the 1970s.  She has primarily worked on alcohol misuse and other substance abuse such as petrol sniffing. Brady has published widely that includes resources for First Nation communities in Australia and internationally.

 Brady’s achievements include:

·           Representing First Nation communities at the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia 1984-1985

·           Employed by the Maralinga Tjarutja, to work on one of the Technical Advisory Group studies (1987-1988) that looked at options for the clean-up of the Maralinga Lands following the recommendations of the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia (1984-5)

·           Working with Australian Government departments, World health organisation and the Pan-American Health Organisation

·           Research positions with the Northern Land Council (1982-1985), Human Rights Commission (1986), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (1987-2000), and two Australian Research Council fellowships at the Australian National University (2001-2015)

Currently Margaret is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University working on the history of Indigenous fermentation practices, the ‘new’ temperance movement among Aboriginal women, and the dissemination of Gothenburg-style pubs to Australia and Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries.