'Pat Eatock was an Aboriginal activist and key member of the Aboriginal Embassy in 1972. Following the Embassy, Pat was the first Indigenous woman to stand for federal Parliament, in 1972, as an independent, though that bid was unsuccessful. Pat went on to be the first non-matriculated mature-age student to study at the Australian National University in 1973, where she graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts. Pat attended the Alternative Tribune to the International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City in 1975 and the Women and Politics Conference in Canberra later that year. Pat worked in the public sector and as a lecturer at Curtin University on community development (1991-92), and at James Cook University in Aboriginal Studies (1997). From 1992 to 1996 she established and managed Perleeka Aboriginal Television, with her son Greg Eatock. In 2011, Pat was the lead litigant in a case against conservative columnist Andrew Bolt, in which she and others sued Bolt un-der the Racial Discrimination Act following a column alleging that fair-skinned Aboriginals had identified for monetary gain. The court found in favour of Pat and against Andrew Bolt, which led to a campaign by members of the Coalition to amend the Act.'
