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 (unsuccessfully) for federal Parliament, in 1972. 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.