Lynda-June Coe is a proud Wiradjuri and Badu Island woman from Erambie Mission, Cowra, NSW currently living on unceded Gadigal land. She is an activist, academic and PhD candidate who comes from a strong lineage of community leaders and resistance. Her grandparents, Les and Agnes Coe, were Wiradjuri trailblazers, and her father, aunties and uncles are widely respected activists who have long fought for the protection of Indigenous land, culture, people and futures. This legacy of advocacy and community leadership continues to shape Lynda-June’s work today.
For more than two decades, Lynda-June has been a committed organiser and advocate for justice, sovereignty, treaty and self-determination. In 2018 she initiated and co-created the Wiradjuri Buyaa (Law) Council, an important step toward strengthening sovereignty, cultural governance and community authority.
She has also co-organised major national campaigns including Invasion Day protests, Black Lives Matter, Water is Life climate action, campaigns to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody, and movements opposing the forced removal of Aboriginal children. She has also been consistent in supporting global campaigns such as the ‘Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline’ protest as well as the ‘Free Palestine’ movement here on stolen land in NSW - amplifying solidarity to Indigenous peoples facing the continued erasure of their lands, people and families. Across these efforts, Lynda-June has consistently spoken out against systemic and institutionalised racism and worked to build collective movements for positive change.
Lynda-June is standing in this preselection to contest the upcoming NSW Upper House elections because she believes the party has a critical role to play in addressing the major challenges facing the state. She is committed to strengthening the Greens’ voice on climate action, the cost-of-living crisis, police brutality and youth incarceration. She has been an active member of the party since 2019 and became involved due to the synchronicities between Indigenous value/belief systems and the ‘Four Pillars’ of the NSW Greens.
Her candidacy also reflects the urgent need for stronger First Nations representation within political decision-making spaces. The NSW Greens have never had an Indigenous representative in the party room, and if elected, Lynda-June would become the first. Her voice and leadership would bring vital lived experience, community connection and a clear commitment to justice for the NSW Greens and within NSW Parliament.
Lynda-June Coe
