Jembaicumbene, Braidwood, South Coast, New South Wales, Australia
Died
19 May 2002 (aged 93)
Moruya, South Coast, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse(s)
2 wives, 1 partner
Children
12 children
Parent(s)
William “Bill” Iberia Thomas (1888-1952) & Mary Gwendoline "Lino" Ahoy (1886–1959)
Edwin "Guboo" Ted Thomas (29 January 1909 – 19 May 2002), a Yuin man, was a prominent Aboriginal leader. He toured Australia with a gumleaf orchestra during the Great Depression of the 1930s, played rugby league and became a respected elder who campaigned for protection of sacred sites on the South Coast. He went to the United Nations in New York and urged the World Council of Churches to accept Indigenous religions, and also met the Dalai Lama.[1]
Edwin "Guboo" TedThomas (29 January 1909 – 19 May 2002), a Yuin man, was a prominent Aboriginal leader. He toured Australia with a gumleaf orchestra...
early 1980s to protect Mumbulla Mountain, Wallaga Lake people led by GubooTedThomas described the Yuin tribe as "shar[ing] the one walkabout from Mallacoota...
priest TedThomas (rower) (1894–1943), Australian rower Teddy Thomas (rugby union) (born 1993), French rugby union player Edwin "Guboo" TedThomas (1909–2002)...
Island (aka Merriman Island and Umbarra) in the lake. In June 1978 GubooTedThomas, a leader in the campaign for Indigenous land rights in Australia,...
birthday); Roy de Maistre (1894–1968), a successful Australian artist; GubooTedThomas (1909–2002) a prominent Aboriginal leader, and the last initiated tribal...
to investigate the woodchipping industry and in the same year 1977 GubooTedThomas, a Yuin elder, led a protest against the destruction of the forest...
hangs a Shen Jiawei painting titled Silent Dialogue, which depicts GubooTedThomas, an Aboriginal Australian leader with a Chinese mother. Kirkham, Rochelle...
Roy de Maistre, CBE (1894–1968), a successful Australian artist. GubooTedThomas (1909–2002) an Aboriginal leader, and the last initiated tribal elder...
conceptual works of Robert Rooney in Melbourne. Stacey also worked with GubooTedThomas and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies documenting First...
great-grandchildren were born there. One of Etienne's great-grandchildren, GubooTedThomas (1909–2002), went on to become an important leader in the Aboriginal...
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