Paul Coe

Paul Coe (* 1949 ) is an Aborigine the Wiradjuri , a political activist for the rights of Aboriginal and lawyer.

Life

He grew up in Cowra, west of Sydney , and moved to Redfern , a suburb of Sydney , in the late 1960s . He was elected to the All Black Football team . As a law student, he became involved in 1971 at the National Black Theater in Redfern.

politics

1970 Coe organized a demonstration on George Street in Sydney for the Vestey Company to support the drovers who strike against this company because of bad pay, unsustainable social conditions and for the rights of the Aborigines in the country.

In 1972 he took part in the protest movement of the Aborigines when setting up the tent embassy at the Old Parliament House in Canberra ; In 1971 he became one of the founders of the Aboriginal Legal Service , which tried to enforce Aboriginal rights. In 1979 Paul Coe sued the High Court of Australia against British rights to the land of Australia. He lost, but his reasoning was retrospectively proven in 1992 when the judgment of Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2) was felled before the High Court of Australia. This supreme court ruling states that the Aborigines have not lost their right to the land through British colonization, but have the native title .

swell

• Collaborating for Aboriginal Rights