Essie Coffey
Australian activist · Australia · On the map · Activists · Lived 1941 to 1998 · aged 56
Essie Coffey, also known as Essieina Goodgabah and "Bush Queen of Brewarrina", was an Aboriginal Australian community worker, filmmaker, singer, and advocate for Indigenous Australians.
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She is known for having co-founded the Western Aboriginal Legal Service to serve western New South Wales, and for her 1978 feature film My Survival as an Aboriginal, the first documentary film directed by an Aboriginal woman. She also served on a number of community organisations and government bodies. She lived in Brewarrina for much of her life.
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