Richard Barry Walley (born 1953) is a Nyungar man and an Aboriginal Australian performer, musician and writer, who has been a campaigner for the Indigenous cause.
[2] He is known for helping to develop the modern Australian welcome to country ritual,[3] when in 1976 he and Ernie Dingo and created a ceremony to welcome a group of Māori artists who were participating in the Perth International Arts Festival.
Walley had realised early the powerful potential of theatre to raise issues and bring messages to the broader community, black and white.
[6] In March 1990, the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust staged the world premiere of his play Munjong, directed by Vivian Walker (son of Oodgeroo Noonuccal[7][8]), at the Victorian Arts Centre.
[citation needed] From 2000, he served as Chair of the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, a position he had held previously between 1992 and 1996.