[3] Fogarty met activist Cheryl Buchanan (born 1955[4]), later the mother of his six children, in Melbourne, who was working with the National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS).
Fogarty was one of the three: he faced charges of conspiracy against the state in Brisbane, along with Denis Walker and Chilean national John Garcia.
In the International Year for the World's Indigenous People in 1993, Fogarty went on an extensive tour in Europe, reading his work.
[2] His poetry can be seen as an extension of this activism; common themes include the maintenance of traditional Aboriginal culture and the effects of European occupation.
[12] Fogarty has been involved with not-for-profit poetry organisation, The Red Room Company, participating in Unlocked, a program for inmates in New South Wales correctional centres, as well its creative projects including Clubs and Societies and The Poet's Life Works.