Eddie Koiki Mabo (left) and Jack Wailu on the Torres Strait Island of Mer during the High Court challenge. AAP/National Archives of Australia Australians have just celebrated Mabo Day – this year ...
In Mabo v Queensland Eddie Mabo challenged the doctrine that declared Australia “land belonging to no one.” This Tuesday on Judgment: Cases that Changed Australia Eddie Mabo and his fellow plaintiffs ...
Members of the community and politicians celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Mabo High Court decision on 3 June 1992 which recognised that Eddie Koiki Mabo and others held native title to land on Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait.
Every year on 3 June we celebrate Mabo Day, which commemorates the life of Eddie Koiki Mabo and marks the anniversary of the historic 1992 Mabo decision. Eddie Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander man who challenged the claim that his family’s traditional land was owned by the Crown.
Mabo is the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie "Koiki" Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who, despite leaving school at 15, spearheaded the High Court challenge that once-and-for-all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Ngày Mabo, ngày lễ chính thức của những người dân đảo Torres Strait được tổ chức nhằm tôn vinh Eddie Mabo, người đã có công trong cuộc chiến giành quyền ...
In this collection we see excerpts of documentaries about Eddie Mabo’s life and legacy, along with photographs and songs paying tribute to Mabo's contribution to Australian history.
Mabo is an Australian docudrama TV film, released in 2012, which relates the successful legal battle waged by Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Koiki Mabo to bring about native land title legislation in Australia.