Chicka Dixon

Inspired by Jack Patten, an organiser of the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Aborigines Progressive Association, and was politically active ever since.

[2] In 1970 Dixon was instrumental in establishing Australia's first Aboriginal Legal Service in Redfern; he co-founded the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972.

In 2007, reports appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times claiming Dixon had obtained 150 pages of his ASIO File.

Dixon joins activists Charles Perkins, Faith Bandler, Melbourne academic Gary Foley, author Michael Hyde,[5] and ABC's Phillip Adams in being among those who have obtained their ASIO files and openly spoken about them in mainstream media.

Dixon died at a Sydney nursing home on 20 March 2010 from asbestosis, which the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says he contracted as a wharf worker.