Gary Edward Foley 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.
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Anthony MundineAlso in Lionel (2008)
Terry CamilleriAlso in Backroads (1977)
Phillip NoyceAlso in Backroads (1977)Alison WylieAlso won Fellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesTakamitsu MuraokaAlso won Fellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesTrevor R. BryceAlso won Fellow of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAbout this person
Gary Edward Foley 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. He also co-wrote and acted in the first Indigenous Australian stage production, Basically Black.
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