Jimmy Wright, Indigenous activist, dead at 66

By Peta Doherty
Updated June 22 2015 - 1:15pm, first published June 21 2015 - 10:00pm
Jimmy Wright, at front right, played a crucial role  in encouraging  the  City of Newcastle to become, in 1977, the first  council to fly an Aboriginal flag.
Jimmy Wright, at front right, played a crucial role in encouraging the City of Newcastle to become, in 1977, the first council to fly an Aboriginal flag.

WHEN the Yowies won the NSW Aboriginal knockout in 2012 uncle Jimmy Wright declared, ‘‘I can die a happy man now’’.

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