Guboo Ted Thomas

Guboo Ted Thomas (29 Jan 1909 – 19 May 2002) of the Yuin people was a prominent Aboriginal (koori) elder (leader), He lived a full life including touring Australia with a gumleaf orchestra during the Great Depression of the 1930s, playing rugby league and getting banned for fighting a referee, yet growing to become an Elder campaigning for protection of sacred sites on the South Coast, who went to the United Nations in New York, who urged the World Council of Churches to accept indigenous religions, and who met the Dalai Lama.