Gary Foley interviewed for the documentary "Hell No We Won't Go"

Gary Foley (DOB 1950) was expelled from school in Grafton by a racist head master at age 15 and became an activist in the Aboriginal Rights Movement in Redfern. Aware of what he believed would be his impending conscription, he consulted with a friend who informed him that Aboriginals were excluded that he should write to the government claiming exemption on that basis. He later discovered that two of his cousins had been conscripted because they didn’t have the necessary information to claim the exemption. Both suffered badly as a result of their service in the war. An activist, academic, writer and actor, Foley is known for his role in establishing the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in front of Parliament House in Canberra and the Redfern Aboriginal Legal Service. He has continued his activism through the subsequent decades. (Description provided by interviewer).