Gary Foley
Gary Edward Foley (born May 11, 1950 in Macksville near Grafton in New South Wales ) is an Aboriginal political activist , writer and actor.
Life
He left school at the age of 15 and moved to Redfern , a suburb of Sydney in 1967 . There he came into contact with the Black Power movement .
He co-wrote the play Basically Black , which premiered in 1972, and has acted in several roles: in 1978 in a film about Aboriginal life that was shown at the Cannes Film Festival , in 1977 in Backroads and in Dogs in Space ; he also appeared in the Australian series A Country Practice and The Flying Doctors .
Gary Foley graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 . Before that, he studied history, carried out studies on art and culture, and dealt with computer technologies. After graduating, he worked as a curator at the Museum Victoria until April 2005, which he left because of the Dja-Dja-Wurrung- Barks scandal , and completed his doctorate at the University of Melbourne in 2013 . Foley worked as a scientific lecturer and tutor at various universities .
politics
In 1971 he was involved in the massive anti-segregation protest surrounding the South African national rugby team , called Springboks , which was touring Australia. He and another activist were then arrested by the police. This dispute had consequences for the sport of Australia, because it denounced the racist politics of South Africa worldwide and so, for example, the South African national cricket team could not travel to Australia and the sport of South Africa was ostracized for years.
Gary Foley is well known in Australia for his involvement in the protest movement for the tent embassy in Canberra in front of the Old Parliament House for Aboriginal rights from 1972. He was also instrumental in establishing the Aboriginal Legal Service for Aboriginal Land Rights in Redfern and in opening the Aboriginal Medical Service in Melbourne and Sydney. He also founded the first Aboriginal Information Center in London.
In 1982 he organized the protest at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and was the first "aboriginalen" Director of the Aboriginal Arts Board from 1983 to 1986. In 1988 he was at the protests against the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Australia Day party and was in the same year of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody , which investigated as the Royal Commission established to investigate the accumulated suicides of the Aborigines in prisons.
swell
- Gary Foley's biography on www.kooriweb.org
- Historysmiths biography of Gary Foley
- Sydney Morning Herald v. July 9, 2005, Gary Foley during the Springbok Protest
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foley, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foley, Gary Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer, Aboriginal political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macksville |