It has been 20 years today since High Court handed down its decision on Mabo v Queensland (No 2), the landmark case known as Mabo, which paved the way for recognition of native title in Australia.

October 1986-September 1989: The hearing of evidence in the Mabo Case by the Supreme Court continues, partly in Brisbane and partly on Mer Island and Thursday Island in the Torres Strait.

See how far native title claims have come with this map and timeline. Eddie Mabo and ... have native title at Mer, in the 'Mabo and others V Queensland' case, was made in the High Court of ...

Among the stresses of day-to-day life, the Mabo case took an extraordinary toll on the man, and in turn on his family. Despite terra nullius being established in the late 1700s, Mabo was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Saturday was the 25th anniversary of the High Court's Mabo decision. The impact of this landmark case still reverberates today in ...

Now, 30 years on from the day when a high court ruling in Eddie Koiki Mabo’s landmark native title case upturned entrenched, colonial laws, Ms Mabo said her father’s example is still just as ...

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Mabo’s legal team – Castan, Bryan Keon-Cohen and Greg McIntyre – realised the chief justice was telling them how they could win the case. “We sat there stunned and astonished,” Keon ...

Mr Abbott described Mabo's home island of Mer as "a special place" Tony Abbott has become the first Australian prime minister to visit the resting place of Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie ...

OFFSHORE Lehman Brothers companies had ignored basic rules of construction laid down in the classic Mabo case, the High Court said yesterday as it released its reasons for finding against the ...