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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a permanent protest occupation site as a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. Established on 26 January 1972, and celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, it is the longest continuous protest for Indigenous land rights in the world.
Image: First day of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, outside Parliament House, Canberra, 27 January 1972. Left to right Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Mic
Image: First day of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, outside Parliament House, Canberra, 27 January 1972. Left to right Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Michael Anderson and Tony Coorey. (38934424564) (cropped)
Image: Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 1972. (27864808359)
Image: Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 1972. (27864808359)
Image: Bobbi Sykes and Gordon Briscoe 1972
Image: Bobbi Sykes and Gordon Briscoe 1972
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Image: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra 006
Gary Foley
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Gary Edward Foley 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.
Gary Foley speaks at a Black Moratorium rally, University of Sydney, 3 July 1972
Foley co-founded the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra
Foley co-founded the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra