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Foley, Gary, 1950-

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Personal name headingFoley, Gary, 1950-
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Birth date19500511
Profession or occupationPolitical activists, Aboriginal Australian
Found inThe aboriginal tent embassy, 2013: ECIP t.p. (Gary Foley)
Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 16, 2013 article on Gary Foley ("Gary Foley (born 11 May 1950) is an Australian Aboriginal Gumbainggir activist, academic, writer and actor (he eschews Australian nationality). 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. Foley also co-wrote and acted in the first indigenous Australian stage production, Basically Black...Foley was born Gary Edward Foley in 1950 in Grafton)
Routledge website, viewed Jan. 16, 2013 ("Gary Foley participated in the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy demonstration. He recently completed a PhD in History at the University of Melbourne and now teaches history at Victoria University, Melbourne")