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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Land, Clare
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-5718 and Woodcock, Shannon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-9382
(2026)
Swinburne Community Organisation Course 1975–1977: Victoria’s first Black Power tertiary program.
Aboriginal History Journal, 49.
pp. 29-58.
ISSN 0314-8769
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2025)
How and Why Did the Australian Black Power Movement Emerge in Victoria?
Victorian Historical Journal, 96 (1).
pp. 65-71.
ISSN 1030-7710
Bracks, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0058-6684, Brown, Coen, Land, Clare
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-5718, Foley, Gary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Hawkes, Jon, Kruger, Kim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7969-8664, Lepper, Rochelle, Ritchie, Natasha and Woodcock, Shannon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-9382
(2024)
Black history powers the Aboriginal History Archive.
Aboriginal History, 47.
pp. 123-154.
ISSN 0314-8769
Woodcock, Shannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-9382, Foley, Gary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Land, Clare
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1755-5718, Bracks, William
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0058-6684, Brown, Alan, Hawkes, Jon and Ritchie, Natasha
(2023)
Black Power Education in Melbourne: Koori Kollij in Historical Context.
Histories of People and Place.
ISSN 2833-4299
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Gibson, Padraic
(2023)
The use and abuse of History in the Voice referendum debate: an interview with Professor Gary Foley.
Overland (10).
ISSN 0030-7416
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2023)
State of the Nation?
Meanjin, 82 (3).
pp. 20-22.
ISSN 0025-6293
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Howell, Edwina
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364
(2017)
Cultural Awareness Training for Educational Leaders and Teachers: A Lesson in History.
Agora, 52 (3).
41 - 44.
ISSN 0044-6726
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2014)
As the Twilight Fades...
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ISSN 1838-8159
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2014)
Thoughts on Assimilation.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2014)
Pyne Opens a New Front in the History Wars.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Looking Back on 2013: a personal reflection.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Music, Mac and Malabar Mansion.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
A Tale of Strange Bedfellows in History.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Warren Mundine : The White Sheep of the Family?
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Brian Syron – Forgotten Aboriginal Hero of Theatre.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Reflections on People and History.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
A Time to Dream.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Liberation through acquisition.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Barks Bite the British Museum.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
How Bob Hawke Killed Land Rights.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
Sloppy Journalism Reinforces White Myths.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Memoriam to my Friend and Mentor: Bruce McGuinness.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Black Power, Black Theatre and Black Humour.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Black Power and Aboriginal Arts.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Reflections on 2012 NAIDOC and the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
The Aptly Named W.C. Wentworth : First Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
How to steal the human rights of Aboriginal people.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Machiavelli Macklin or the Politics of Mediocrity?
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
White Myth-Making and the State of Denial.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Eugenics, Melbourne University and Me.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
False Idols and Broken Dreams.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
A Few Important Events of the 1950s.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
1950s : Peak of the Assimilation Era.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Learning from History : 1946 Pilbara Aboriginal Stockmen’s Strike.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
1930s: Era of Assimilation and Activism.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
The Answer is a Better Knowledge of History.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Ode to Billy Hunter : Address to Bill Hunter Memorial Service, Princess Theatre, Melbourne 26th May 2011.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and Other Horror Stories.
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Freedom of Speech or Freedom to Denigrate?
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Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Of Spooks and Imaginary Plots: ASIO and the 1970s Black Power Movement.
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ISSN 1838-8159
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Anderson, Tim
(2006)
Land rights and Aboriginal voices.
Australian Journal of Human Rights, 12 (1).
pp. 83-108.
ISSN 1323-238X
Book
Birch, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6106-8832, Katona, Jacqui
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1608-6462 and Foley, Gary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2023)
Native Title Is Not Land Rights!
Common Room, Melbourne, Australia.
Dexter, BG
(2015)
Pandora's Box: The Council for Aboriginal Affairs 1967-1976.
Howell, Edwina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364 and Foley, Gary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, eds.
Keeaira Press, Southport, Queensland.
Howell, Edwina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364, Schaap, A and Foley, Gary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, eds.
(2014)
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy : Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State.
Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, England.
Foley, Gary (1991) Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service 1971-1991 : twenty years of community service. Aboriginal Medical Service Co-operative, Redfern, New South Wales.
Book Section
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Ettling, Alex
(2023)
Black power and alcohol: an oral history with Gary Foley.
In:
Knocking the top off: A people's history of alcohol in Australia.
Ettling, A and Mcintyre, I, eds.
Interventions Incorporated, Australia, pp. 291-306.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and McKinnon, Crystal
(2022)
Civil Rights and Indigenous People.
In:
Cambridge legal history of Australia.
Cane, P, Ford, L and McMillan, M, eds.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 523-535.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2020)
The Australian Labor Party and the Native Title Act.
In:
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters.
Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, ed.
Cultural Studies
.
Routledge, pp. 118-139.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Howell, Edwina
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364
(2018)
The media strategy of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and Self-determination Movement.
In:
Routledge Companion to Media and Activism.
Meikle, G, ed.
Routledge Companion series
.
Routledge, London, pp. 307-315.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2014)
A reflection on the first thirty days of the Embassy.
In:
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State.
Schaap, Andrew, Foley, Gary and Howell, Edwina, eds.
Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 22-41.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Schaap, A and Howell, Edwina
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364
(2014)
Introduction.
In:
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State.
Foley, G, Schaap, A and Howell, E, eds.
Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, England.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2014)
ASIO, the Aboriginal Movement and Me.
In:
Dirty Secrets : our ASIO files.
Burgmann, M, ed.
NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 93-111.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
A short history of the Australian Indigenous resistance 1950 - 1990.
In:
Nelson Aboriginal Studies.
Cadzow, Allison, Maynard, John, Goodall, Heather, Watson, Nicole, Read, Peter, Kelly, Ray, Foley, Gary, Peters-Little, Frances, Moreton, Romaine, Mundine, Djon, Briscoe, Gordon, Lester, Danny, Jordan, Kirrily, South, Ashley, Stephens, Roz, Lester, John, Behrendt, Larissa, Chartrand, Paul and Morgan, George, eds.
Cengage Learning, South Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 114-127.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2009)
Black Power in Redfern 1968-1972.
In:
There Goes the Neighbourhood: Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space.
Begg, Zanny and De Souza, Keg, eds.
Performance Space, Sydney, NSW, pp. 12-21.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Australia and the Holocaust : a Koori perspective.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 74-87.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
From the NAACP to the Nation of Islam: a study of race relations in America.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 112-118.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Issues of history: cinematic and historical issues raised by Schindler's List and Shoah.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 95-103.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Snake tales : review of second instalment of Dr. R. Sykes autobiography.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 70-72.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Strategic Considerations in the Struggle for Social Justice for Indigenous People: Whiteness and Blackness in the Koori Struggle for Self-Determination.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 30-61.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
The textual and aesthetic characteristics that define television.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 119-127.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
The Battle for Goonininup.
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 62-69.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
What are the limits, and the possibilities, for representing the Holocaust on film?
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 88-94.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
What factors help account for the violence and destruction generated by Nazis?
In:
The power of whiteness and other essays.
Aboriginal studies occasional paper
(1).
Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 104-108.
Conference or Workshop Item
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2023)
Reflections on 50 Years of Making History.
In: Australian Historical Association Conference, 3 Jul 2023 - 6 Jul 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2010)
Gary Foley at Decolonizing activism, de-activating colonialism, MAYSAR Gym 31 August 2010.
In: Decolonizing activism, de-activating colonialism, 10 September, 2015, MAYSAR, Fitzroy, Victoria.
(Unpublished)
Fenley, Julie, Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Howell, Edwina
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-1364 and McCarthy, G
Transforming archival practice: The Aboriginal history archive.
In: Designing the Archives 2019, 21 Oct 2019 - 25 Oct 2019, Adelaide.
(Unpublished)
Monograph
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2011)
Self-determination : Background paper: Amnesty International Australia, 2011.
Other.
UNSPECIFIED, Sydney.
Other
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2013)
The Koori History Website.
Gary Foley.
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2012)
Richard Bell - Cosmic Avenger.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2010)
Book Review: Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia, Edited by Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson, UNSW Press, 2010.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2004)
VAHS history project : online exhibition on history at VAHS and Fitzroy Aboriginal community : some preliminary thoughts by Gary Foley, Historian and Senior Curator, Indigenous Cultures Department, Museum Victoria.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary (2002) How Indigenous people have altered the function of the Melbourne Museum. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(2001)
Black Power in Redfern 1968-1972.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Koori engagement with television.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Native Title is not Land Rights: an Alternative Indigenous Perspective.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Gary Foley to John Moriarty, the Chair of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board re support for Queensland Art Gallery Lin Onus Retrospective.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1999)
Native Title is not Land Rights, and Reconciliation is not Justice.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1996)
Letter to the editor of the Australian, 3rd of January 1996.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1996)
Letter to the editor of the Age, 25th of September 1996.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1996)
Letter to the editor of the Age, 25th of September 1996 : draft.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1995)
Idea to set up Koori Publishing Company.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1995)
Letter to Pat Swan re assistance sought to index, catalogue, restore, and preserve historic archive.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1995)
Letter from Gary Foley to the editor of The Australian re Aboriginal health.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1994)
Gary Foley to Lesley Fogarty re Literary Panel application for Chicka Dixon.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1994)
Letter to the editor of the Age, 21st of February 1994.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1992)
1992 letter from Gary Foley to the editor, The Age.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1992)
Letter from Gary Foley to Committee Member, National Committee of Reconciliation re Building Bridges TV Special.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary (1992) Letter from Gary Foley to Patrick Dodson. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Foley, Gary (1992) Letter from Gary Foley to Editor, The Age, re Peter Hollingworth's comments. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421
(1987)
Letter from Gary Foley to John Laws re Aboriginal fashion designers.
UNSPECIFIED.
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary (1987) News release from Gary Foley re Bicentennial Protest Group. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Gale, Jim, Morieson, John and Gilbert, Kevin
(1977)
29.10.77 'Variations' ABC (BAR).
UNSPECIFIED.
Foley, Gary and Lomas, Charlotte Interview with Gary Foley (audio recording). UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Performance
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Hawkes, Jon and Birch, Anthony
(2011)
Foley.
[Performance]
(Unpublished)
Video
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421 and Bell, Richard
(2013)
Gary and Richard : Imagining Victory - Wheeler Centre, 15th of March, 2013.
[Video]
(Unpublished)
Foley, Gary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-1421, Keenan, H and Steele, G
(2013)
Persons of Interest : Gary Foley.
[Video]
Foley, Gary and Behrendt, Larissa (2012) Garey Foley with Larissa Behrendt, 30 March 2012, Message Stick, Sydney. [Video] (Unpublished)
Foley, Gary (1982) Gary Foley addressing NAIHO meeting, 1982. [Video] (Unpublished)
Foley, Gary Gary Foley speech. [Video] (Unpublished)
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