Tag Archives: Gary Foley

THE CONTRARIAN: Black Power, Black Theatre and Black Humour

By Gary Foley, October 5, 2012
Gary Foley in Basically Black.

NATIONAL: Sometimes laughter really is the best medicine, writes GARY FOLEY*.

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THE CONTRARIAN: Black Power and Aboriginal Arts

By Gary Foley, August 16, 2012
The legendary Chicka Dixon. The pictures have been kindly supplied by the 'Foley Collection'.

NATIONAL: Aboriginal Australia owes much of its advancement – particularly in the arts – to the local Black Power movement, writes GARY FOLEY. It was great men like Chicka Dixon who forged the way ahead in the most unlikely of places.

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THE CONTRARIAN: A punter’s guide to stealing the rights of Aborigines

By Gary Foley, July 5, 2012
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NATIONAL: GARY FOLEY* presents the dummy’s guide to stealing Indigenous rights.

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THE CONTRARIAN: Politics of mediocrity or a Machiavellian Macklin?

By Gary Foley, June 14, 2012
Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu meets Minister Jenny Macklin at the Garma Festival in the Northeast Arnhem Land town of Gulkula, in 2010. (AAP Image/David Sproule)

NATIONAL: Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin must be held accountable for the policies that continue to hurt Aboriginal Australia, writes GARY FOLEY*.

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Tracker investigates the Bowraville murders: Part Four

By Tracker, January 17, 2012
Four year old Evelyn Greenup is one of the Bowraville murder victims. To this day, no one has been convicted over her death.

NATIONAL: In his daily video blog, Tracker Managing Editor Chris Graham considers the police response to the murder of three Aboriginal children in Bowraville in 1990.

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THE CONTRARIAN: Strikes and protests gear up rights fight

By Gary Foley, January 9, 2012
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NATIONAL: GARY FOLEY* revists the decade of his birth – the 1950s – to look at the major events that helped shape the Aboriginal political struggle.

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AFL INDIGENOUS ROUND: This weekend the AFL celebrates and honours the contribution of Aboriginal players to the Aboriginal game of Marngrook, or as its commonly known, AFL.

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