Gary Foley
Australian activist · Australia · On the map · Writers · Born 1950 · age 76
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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He also co-wrote and acted in the first Indigenous Australian stage production, Basically Black.
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Born 1950 · age 76
