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Bruce McGuinness was born on 17 June, 1939 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian Aboriginal activist. Discover Bruce McGuinness's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June 1939
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death 5 September, 2003
Died Place Melbourne, Victoria
Nationality Australia

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1939

Bruce Brian McGuinness (17 June 1939 – 5 September 2003) was an Australian Aboriginal activist.

A Wiradjuri man, McGuinness was born on 17 June 1939 in Cootamundra.

He studied law at Monash University but did not accept his degree.

1950

Despite his generally radical stance, he did not dismiss non-Aboriginal activists, and praised the work of white campaigners such as Stan Davey and Gordon Bryant in the late 1950s and 1960s.

1960

In the late 1960s he travelled to the United States to attend a Pan-Pacific Conference, where he was inspired by the Black Panther Party to advocate for increased rights for Aboriginal Australians.

He was an early member of the Aboriginal Advancement League (aka Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, or VAAL), later becoming president, following Doug Nicholls in the role.

His appointment led to some dissent in the organisation, as moderate VAAL members, including Nicholls, were concerned that McGuinness' more radical approach would turn people away from VAAL.

McGuinness forged connections with more radical Aboriginal activists from across Australia, such as Gary Foley (whom he mentored) and Denis Walker, and the world.

Foley wrote in an epitaph that McGuinness "was in many ways an unreconstructed Marxist-Leninist to the end".

1968

He was active in and led the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League, and is known for founding and running The Koorier, which was the first Aboriginal-initiated national broadsheet newspaper (later known as National Koorier and then Jumbunna) between 1968 and 1971.

It was published in Fitzroy between 1968 and 1971, and Lin Onus and Bob Maza were significant contributors to the paper.

Like Identity, published in Perth, the paper was used to stimulate political activity, and to disseminate messages in and beyond the Indigenous public sphere, to educate the non-Indigenous Australian public.

1969

In 1969, he invited Caribbean Black Power activist Roosevelt Brown to speak visit VAAL, and started seeing the Aboriginal struggle against the backdrop of colonialism and white power.

1970

He joined the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and became its Victorian state director, but in 1970 broke away to form the National Tribal Council with Foley, Walker and Naomi Mayers.

McGuinness advocated for Aboriginal people to take control of their own affairs.

Young activist Robbie Thorpe, inspired by McGuinness' publication, later produced The Koorier 2 during the 1970s and 1980s, and later The Koorier 3, published by the Koori Information Centre.

McGuinness directed the film Black Fire, also titled Blackfire, thought to be the first film directed by an Indigenous Australian person.

Doug Nicholls, Harry Williams, and his son Bertie Williams starred in the film, and Lin Onus was responsible for sound production.

1972

In the November 1972 issue of Identity magazine, in an article about Black Power, referring to the July 1972 Black Moratorium protest in Melbourne, he wrote: "The day of reckoning has arrived. I have just slayed the white myth of black subservience and docility... At your own hands, you, white man, have been appointed your own executioner".

The release date is usually cited as 1972, and the runtime recorded as 20 minutes, but some sources date it as 1969, with a runtime of 60 minutes.

McGuinness created the film as an anthropology assignment, in collaboration with his non-Aboriginal friend Martin Bartfeld, on a budget of A$500.

1973

McGuinness helped establish the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, along with Alma Thorpe and others, in 1973, and was also co-founder of the National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation.

McGuiness founded and was responsible for The Koorier, which was the first Aboriginal-initiated national broadsheet newspaper (later known as National Koorier and then Jumbunna ).

The Koorier and Jumbunna were published by the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League (VAAL), while the National Koorier was the mouthpiece of the National Tribal Council.

1974

Their first album was called A Time to Dream, and McGuinness gave the same name to his second film, released in 1974.

1990

His son Kelli McGuinness was a member of a 1990s band called Blackfire, with Kutcha Edwards as lead singer.

2003

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tranby College shortly before his death from emphysema in Melbourne on 5 September 2003.