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Gary Edward Foley (born 1950) is an Aboriginal Australian activist of the Gumbaynggirr people, academic, writer and actor. He is best known for his role in establishing the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972 and for establishing an Aboriginal Legal Service in Redfern in the 1970s.
Gary Foley was born in Grafton (1950), northern NSW of Gumbainggir descent. Expelled from school aged 15, Foley came to Sydney as an apprentice draughtsperson. Since then he has been at the centre of major political activities including the: protests during the bicentennial celebrations (1988).
Gary Foley speaks at a Black Moratorium rally at the University of Sydney in July 1972. (Image: State Library of New South Wales) “The only thing that this referendum will do, if in the unlikely case, it succeeds, is make white people feel good,” he says while sitting at the Fairfield Boathouse overlooking the Yarra.
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Gary Foley (b. 1950) is a Gumbainggir activist, actor, historian, curator and academic. Born in Grafton, Foley moved to Sydney at the age of seventeen to become an apprentice draughtsman. After being attacked by the police in Redfern, he read the autobiography of African-American activist Malcom X and developed into an Indigenous rights activist. He helped to set up Redfern's Aboriginal Legal Service and the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1971 he was a key organiser ...
