Paul Coe

Paul Coe was born on 4 February 1949 at Erambie Mission, near Cowra in New South Wales.

[3] Coe was active in campaigns around the 1967 referendum as well as the establishment in 1972 of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, working with Pearl Gibbs, Chicka Dixon and Billy Craigie in the fight for basic human rights and justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

[5] Coe and a group of other activists including Isabel Coe, Gary Williams, Gary Foley and Tony Coorey also founded the Aboriginal Legal Service in 1970, the first free legal assistance service in Australia.

The affidavit in question was sworn in the course of family law proceedings, to which Coe was a party, and understated his salary by some $80,000.

[8] Media reports in 2003 indicated that Coe was subsequently investigated by the Bar Association of NSW for continuing to practise despite being removed from the roll.