Joyce Caroline Clague MBE (née Mercy; 22 July 1938 – September 2024) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist and Yaegl elder.
Joyce Caroline Mercy was born on 22 July 1938 in the New South Wales town of Maclean, one of 15 children.
[5] In 1968, she stood for the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory,[4] with her independent campaign encouraging the enrolment of 6500 Aboriginal people.
In the 1980s, she stood for pre-selection for Australian Labor Party seats in both houses of the Parliament of New South Wales.
[11] Clague married Colin, an Anglo-Australian whose ancestors came from the Isle of Mann, about two years after they met at a Christian youth conference in the Philippines in 1964.
The 2007 documentary When Colin Met Joyce, written and produced by Pauline Clague, the third of her four daughters, concerns their relationship.