Education
Born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on New South Wales"s northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino.
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Born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on New South Wales"s northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino.
Langford was her husband"s surname, and Ginibi is a Bundjalung honorific. At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist. She had nine children by various relationships, but only legally married once, to Peter Langford, whose surname she took as her own.
Three of Langford"s children predeceased her.
She received an inaugural History Fellowship from the NSW Ministry for the Arts in 1994, an inaugural honorary fellowship from the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 1995, and an inaugural doctorate of letters (Honors Causia) from Louisiana Trobe University, Victoria in 1998. In 2008, Ginibi was a Don"t DIS my ABILITY ambassador.
She wrote non-fiction books, essays, poems and short stories. Langford had been suffering kidney problems and high blood pressure before her death at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, aged 77, on 1 October 2011.