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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The 1992 High Court decision in the Mabo case was a watershed—it established the legal doctrine of ...

Overturning Terra Nullius 30 years ago was an instrumental moment in Australian history, but for Gail Mabo, daughter of the late Eddie Koiki Mabo, it’s the legacy he’s left behind that is just as ...

Although Eddie Koiki Mabo - the man and the law case that bears his name - is well known throughout Australia, outside of Australia, Mabo is virtually unknown. As a Canadian writing a book about Mabo, ...

Arguably Australia’s most famous court decision, the Mabo ruling may also have helped Australia win the right to host the 2000 Olympics. See what one historian had to say. According to historian and ...

The Mabo decision that created Australia’s native title regime was 32 years old on Monday. While hailed by prime minister Paul Keating as a turning point for Indigenous economic development, the ...