• Strait. His parents were Robert Zesou Sambo and Poipe Mabo, but Eddie was adopted by his uncle Benny Mabo when his mother died shortly after he was born. This...
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    recognised the existence of Native Title in Australia. It was brought by Eddie Mabo and others against the State of Queensland, and decided on 3 June 1992...
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  • Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. She was the wife of Eddie Mabo until his death in 1992. Ernestine Bonita Neehow was born in Halifax,...
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  • his accusations were thus flawed. Reynolds struck up a friendship with Eddie Mabo, who was then a groundsman and gardener at James Cook University. In his...
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  • exhibition, showcasing 50 collection items from Special Collections, Eddie Koiki Mabo Library, James Cook University, Townsville. The rare collection item...
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  • Koiki Mabo to bring about native land title legislation in Australia. Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the...
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  • Senegal Eddie Mabo (1936–1992), the Torres Strait Islander man who instigated the 1992 test case for native title over his people's land Mabo (film),...
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    educator Mandawuy Yunupingu The Eddie Mabo Award for Social Justice, in honour of Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo Anthony Mundine Award for Courage...
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    Mabo. On 3 June 1992, the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of Eddie Mabo in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) recognising native title in Australia for the...
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  • launched a petition to make 3 June an Australian Public Holiday. Eddie Mabo Jnr, for the Mabo family, said: We believe that a public holiday would be fitting...
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  • Mabo and educator and activist Bonita Mabo. She was formerly a dancer and choreographer. Mabo was born in 1965, the daughter of Eddie and Bonita Mabo...
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  • included singer Archie Roach, artist Gordon Bennett, land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo, and Australian Football League player Nicky Winmar, who famously lifted...
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    Government of Queensland, in which several Meriam people, principally Eddie Mabo, contested that they had certain native title rights over the Murray Islands...
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    Mabo: Life of an Island Man is a 1997 Australian documentary film on the life of Indigenous Australian land rights campaigner Eddie Koiki Mabo, directed...
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    co-operate closely in the management of the strait's resources. In 1982, Eddie Mabo and four other Torres Strait Islander people from Mer (Murray Island)...
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    rights and politics. Faith Bandler, Evelyn Scott, and Bonita Mabo (widow of Eddie Mabo) are prominent Indigenous activists who are also descendants of...
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  • actor, known for his portrayal of land rights activist Eddie Mabo in the 2012 tele-movie Mabo, several television series, and theatre performances. A...
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    player Nathan Jawai. Mills' great uncle is Indigenous land rights activist Eddie Mabo. Mills first took up basketball as a four-year-old for a local Indigenous...
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    to court proceedings started by the Torres Strait Meriam people led by Eddie Mabo, who were attempting to have their land claims recognised by the common...
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    (Warcraft character) Dylan Alcott Dwayne Johnson E.T. Ed Sheeran Eddie Mabo Eddie Murphy Eddie Redmayne Edward III Edward Scissorhands Edwin Lee Edis Elettra...
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  • Wood Mallesons Ashurst MinterEllison Who led the legal team for Eddie Mabo in the Mabo v Queensland decision, where the firm acted as Solicitor Australian...
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    on the island. Murray Island's most famous resident was trade unionist Eddie Mabo, whose decision to sue the Queensland Government to secure ownership of...
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    1981, a land rights conference was held at James Cook University, where Eddie Mabo, a Torres Strait Islander, made a speech to the audience in which he explained...
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  • 1981, a land rights conference was held at James Cook University, where Eddie Mabo, a Torres Strait Islander, made a speech to the audience in which he explained...
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  • the Australian Supreme Court, under Justice Gerard Brennan, in the case Eddie Mabo versus the state of Queensland (2) accepts for the first time in Australian...
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    the Indigenous walkers were Faith Bandler and Bonita Mabo, widow of land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo, and many members of the Stolen Generations. It was...
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  • prevent the construction of the Franklin Dam in a World Heritage Zone. In Eddie Mabo & Ors v The State of Queensland (No.2) invalidated the declaration of...
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  • Australia's Indigenous population. Eddie Mabo was from "Mer" or Murray Island in the Torres Strait, which the famous Mabo decision of 1992 involved. Geographical...
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    were Eddie Koiki Mabo, Reverend David Passi, Sam Passi, James Rice and Celuia Mapo Sale. The Mabo case began on 20 May 1982 primarily led by Eddie Mabo and...
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    in basketball. Jawai’s great uncle is Indigenous land rights activist Eddie Mabo. Like most children on Cape York, he played rugby league throughout primary...
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