Wednesday’s Blak Superhero is the writer, filmaker, organiser, Bruce McGuinness. Bruce was behind the Vic newspaper The Koorier and wrote & directed Black Fire (1972). He was also one of the founders of the Black Power movement in Australia. 
Gary Foley: “I first met McGuinness at the annual Easter Conference of the Federal Council for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in Canberra in 1970. It was at this conference that McGuinness was part of a small group that argued for Aboriginal control over FCAATSI
The irony was that FCAATSI was our only national political organisation at the time, but it was not controlled and run by Aboriginal people. The white people who controlled FCAATSI were what we would call do-gooders, who were basically decent people but their paternalistic
attitudes prevented them from understanding that Aboriginal people were capable of managing their own affairs.”
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