• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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