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Gary Foley speaks at a Black Moratorium rally, University of Sydney, 3 July 1972

Gary Edward Foley (born 1950) 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.

As of August 2022 Foley is Professor, Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Unit, at Victoria University.

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