Paul Coe

Paul Coe ( b. 1949 ) is an aboriginal of Wiradjuri, a political activist for the rights of Aboriginal and lawyer.

Life

He grew up in Cowra west of Sydney and moved in the late 1960s, according to Redfern, a suburb of Sydney. He was elected into the All Black team football. As a law student, he became involved in 1971 at the National Black Theatre in Redfern.

Policy

1970 Coe organized a demonstration in George Street in Sydney for the Vestey Company to support the strike against this company drover for bad payment, intolerable social conditions and the rights of Aboriginal people in the countryside.

In 1972 he sat in the protest movement of the Aborigines a build the Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House in Canberra; In 1971 he was one of the founders of the Aboriginal Legal Service, who tried to enforce the rights of the Aborigines. 1979 complained Paul Coe before the High Court of Australia against the British rights to the land of Australia. He was lost, but he was later in 1992 with his argument right when the judgment Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2) before the High Court of Australia like. This supreme court ruling notes that the Aboriginal people have not lost their right to the land by the British colonization but have the Native Title.

Swell

• Collaborating for Aboriginal Rights

• Aboriginal activist
• Lawyer ( Australia)
• Australian
• Born in 1949
• Man