Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Law can also be terrible. The telemovie reminded us how, not so long ago, that Queensland law dictated segregation in ...
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 ...
Warning: this story contains references to deceased Aboriginal persons. AT A TIME WHEN the push to recognise indigenous land rights in Australia was gaining momentum, Eddie Mabo was living in ...
Ms Mabo died last Monday — just days after being awarded an honorary doctor of letters from James Cook University. Ms Mabo worked alongside her husband Eddie in the pursuit of indigenous land rights.
It was more than 30 years ago when a landmark legal case, brought about by Eddie Koiki Mabo and fellow Mer Islanders, recognised the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to their ...