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	Eddie Mabo
		Mabo's diary entries from this period reflect the energies of a man who, apart from having seven children and a wife, was deeply embroiled in north Queensland fl politics.
		Mabo, who had once called the legal service management "a mob of turkeys", reacted with typical brio: he engaged two lawyers to try to sue the legal service management and drafted a letter to his former boss sarcastically congratulating him for undermining him.
		Mabo's illness would cheat him by just a few months of the chance to see his destiny fulfilled; the High Court decision was handed down on June 2, 1992, four months and three weeks after Eddie Mabo passed away.
	www.fineartsgroup.net.au /eddie_mabo.htm (2650 words)

	Biography of Eddie Mabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-1992) was born Eddie Koiki Sambo but changed his name later in life.
		Edward Mabo was born in 1936 on Mer Island (also known as Murray Island), one of the Torres Strait Islands.
		Over the next decade, Eddie Mabo worked on a number of jobs but when he was thirty-one years old he became a gardener with James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /m/Mabo_Eddie.html (783 words)

	Newsletter Issue 21 (May 2005)
		Eddie Mabo’s ancestors lived for centuries on a group of three islands in the Torres Strait, near Cape York, known as the Murray Islands.
		Edward Koiki Mabo was born in 1936 on Mer Island (or Murray Island) and, after his mother’s death, was given to his mother’s brother and his wife to raise.
		Eddie Mabo claimed that he was the rightful heir and owner of the land owned by his father on Murray Island.
	www.adcq.qld.gov.au /newsletter/no21(May05)/Mabo.htm (817 words)

	Widow tackles unfinished business of Eddie Mabo - theage.com.au
		Bonita Mabo wasn't in the High Court the day her late husband achieved one of the biggest victories in Australian legal history, but it wasn't for lack of trying.
		Eddie Mabo was Bonita's first boyfriend and, after their marriage, they were turned away from several Queensland hotels because of their colour.
		Eddie Mabo worked as fisherman, a cane cutter, a fettler on the railways, a labourer, a gardener, the headmaster of the Black Community School in Townsville and a union official.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/29/1019441345121.html (584 words)

	10 years after Mabo, Eddie's spirit dances on - smh.com.au
		Bonita Mabo and her children Gail and Malcolm celebrate yesterday the life and historic achievement of Eddie Mabo.
		Mrs Mabo's husband, Eddie, was largely responsible for one of the most significant acts of justice in Australian history, the High Court's Mabo judgement, which destroyed the legal doctrine of terra nullius by which Australia was colonised, the idea that no-one owned the land when the white people came.
		Eddie Mabo had been beaten at school for speaking his own language, yet he emerged from the remote island of Mer, in the Murray Islands, as the driving force in Australia's thrust towards native title.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/30/1022569815373.html (620 words)

	Anthropology Review Database
		Mabo became convinced that Islander children needed their own school to combat the racism and negative expectations of white schooling.
		Eddie was shocked that he had no right to return to his homeland.
		Eddie was stunned ^• it had never occurred to him that he was not the owner of his lands.
	wings.buffalo.edu /ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=321 (705 words)

	Heroes live forever
		Eddie (Kioki) Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander, a man with little formal education, the father of ten children.
		Eddie discovered that the Australian Government was still using laws based on ´terra nullius´ (´empty land´), the term used by the British to justify their decision taking over this country in 1788.
		Eddie wanted the High Court of Australia to accept Native Title, the term used to describe the common law rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in land and water according to their traditions, law and customs.
	www.ozspirit.info /issues/206/4.php (849 words)

	Eddie Mabo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mabo had a large effect on the community in Townsville, later establishing the first Black Community School there.
		While personally devastated, Eddie Koiki Mabo persisted in pursuing the matter and appealed it to the High Court of Australia.
		That decision is now commonly called "Mabo" in Australia, and recognised for its landmark status.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Mabo (908 words)

	FWB, July 1993
		Over a decade ago, Eddie Mabo initiated a legal battle in Australia to recognize the land rights of the Meriam Islanders, Melanesians who inhabit primarily the Murray Islands of the Torres Strait, in the marine outback of northern Australia, between the Cape York Peninsula and Papua New Guinea.
		Mabo died before the High Court issued its historic 1992 decision, Mabo v The State of Queensland, 66 ALJR 408 (hereafter referred to as "Mabo").
		The Mabo judgment arguably can be broadened beyond real property rights to extend to "intellectual property rights." According to Mabo, communal indigenous title and intellectual property survive so long as indigenous peoples remain identifiable communities living under their own laws and culture.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /fwc/Issue5/mabo-1.html (882 words)

	Eureka Street - Articles
		Mabo was the first case where the full bench of the High Court was asked to consider the common-law recognition of land rights.
		Eddie Mabo was the driving force behind the litigation, having commenced the proceedings ten years before.
		In Mabo, due process and compensation for native-title holders would be available only to those fortunate enough to have retained their lands during two centuries of colonial dispossession premised on the terra nullius mindset.
	www.eurekastreet.com.au /articles/0206brennan.html (883 words)

	Mabo's son calls for public holiday - theage.com.au
		The Mabo judgment's greatest legacy was to bring Aboriginal people back to their rightful place at the centre of Australia's identity, Frank Brennan, a negotiator of post-Mabo native title legislation, said yesterday.
		His comments came as the son of Eddie Mabo, Malcolm, called on the Federal Government to set aside a public holiday in honour of his father's achievements.
		At a dinner in Melbourne honouring Eddie Mabo tonight, Reconciliation Australia co-chair Fred Cheney will encourage indigenous communities to act as nations, with their own laws and customs, after generations of dispossession.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/06/02/1022982650244.html (298 words)

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		To keep at 'em like a terrier, as Eddie Mabo did for years and years, eventually winning a stunning victory in the High Court in Canberra, was astounding and as good an example of a "small man" winning against the odds as could be imagined.
		Mabo: Life Of An Island Man is by no means all politics though and is as funny as any family is when you get into the kitchen and the back yard.
		Eddie Mabo kept diaries from a young age and they range from the utterly romantic to the coarsely profane, but they are always interesting.
	www.iig.com.au /film/mabolife.html (542 words)

	Documentary Tells of Battle for Native Land Rights
		The documentary tells the story of the life of Eddie Mabo, a native of the Murray Islands who fought the High Court case which found, for the first time, that native land title is valid in Australia.
		Eddie Koiki Mabo, the subject of the movie, died in 1992, five months before the High Court handed down its historic decision.
		The Mabo judgment not only found that Eddie Mabo's people, the Murray Islanders, retained their own system of land tenure, but declared that, with the overturning of terra nullius, mainland Aborigines were similarly in a position to argue claims for native land title.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/03.19/DocumentaryTell.html (532 words)

	Make MABO DAY - 3 June - an Australian Public Holiday
		Eddie Mabo a Torres Strait man born on Mer in the Torres Strait and living in Townsville in Queensland conducted a ten year battle through the courts that led to this historic judgement.
		The Mabo Judgement states in law that indigenous Australians have by prior occupation, ownership of land where native title has not been extinguished.
		On the tenth anniversary, in 2002, Eddie Mabo's widow, Bonita Mabo, called for a national public holiday on the anniversary of the High Court's decision.
	www.takver.com /history/ph_maboday.htm (1380 words)

	Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities
		The name Edward Mabo will forever be linked to native title and land rights in Australia, as it was Mabo (1936-1992), a Torres Strait Islander, who successfully challenged the Queensland government and established beyond doubt, that, he did in fact own his traditional family land on Murray (Mer) Island, in the Torres Strait.
		Mabo was a man of enormous energy and vision, coupled with passionate and unwavering opinions, that, while putting many offside, enabled him to single mindedly challenge the existing status quo and relentlessly pursue his ten year struggle for justice against the Queensland government.
		Mabo married Bonita Nehow in 1959, whom he had met in Innisfail while cutting sugar cane, and they settled in Townsville and raised a family.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/minorities/mabo.html (1091 words)

	Mabo
		Eddie Mabo argued that the Merian people had traditional rights of ownership over Murray Island that preceded those of the State of Queensland.
		EDDIE KOIKI MABO: According to my tradition, those fish, the prawn, whatever is in that sea, belongs to me and my people.
		Eddie Mabo himself died just months before the decision he had fought for was handed down.
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s572387.htm (892 words)

	Education World® - *History : By Region : Pacific / Oceania : Australia : Famous People
		Mabo and the Native Title Act Find out about the 1993 court case that declared that Aborigines had a right to the land that was taken from them by the Australian government.
		Mabo, Eddie - Acquiring the Mabo Papers Lengthy article describes the effort made by the National Library of Australia to acquire the papers of late Aboriginal activist Eddie Mabo.
		Mabo, Edward - Australians Offers a biography of this Torres Strait Islander who fought to win land rights for Aborigines and was buried as a king after his death.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=11449 (205 words)

	The Mabo Litigation: A Personal and Procedural Account - [2000] MULR 35; (2000) 24 Melbourne University Law Review 893
		Eddie Mabo was born on Mer (Murray Island) on 29 June 1936, and passed away after suffering from cancer on 21 January 1992.
		Eddie was the biological son of Robert Sambo and Poipe Sambo, née Mabo.
		Eddie Mabo is, in my view, quite capable of tailoring his story to whatever shape he perceived would advance his cause in the particular forum.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/journals/MULR/2000/35.html (15972 words)

	Mabo - Life of an Island Man
		Eddie Koiki Mabo was born on Murray Island in the Torres Strait (between Australia and Papua New Guinea), but lived most of his life in exile on mainland Australia.
		MABO - LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN traces the story of the life of an extraordinary man, one whose struggle for land rights, and his remarkable life in general, had a profound effect on indigenous rights in Australia.
		Eddie Mabo effectively challenged the notion of terra nullus which asserted that Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders did not have a system of legal ownership predating white settlement.
	www.frif.com /new98/mabo.html (536 words)

	Green Left - The inspiring life of Eddie Mabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mabo gained an education, and became an activist for fl rights, working with his community campaigning for things such as the right for Aboriginals to have their own schools.
		Mabo rejected the more militant direct action tactics of the land rights movement, seeing the most important goal as being to destroy the legal justification for the land theft.
		Mabo: Life of an Island Man tells part of the story of the conditions faced by Aborigines in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and their struggles during this period.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/286/16207 (403 words)

	Mabo Day celebrated in Melbourne : Melbourne Indymedia
		Mabo Day was celebrated by about 40 people in Federation Square on June 3rd, with many passers by stopping briefly to read the banner and perhaps listen to one of the speeches for a few minutes.
		Mabo Day is the date when the High Court of Australia handed down its decision in the Mabo case in 1992, finding that there was prior occuption and ownership of the land, thus overturning the doctine of Terra Nullius.
		Ellen, a Torres Strait Islander, spoke movingly of the importance of Eddie Mabo.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/06/113891.php (1203 words)

	Mabo - Gurupedia
		Mabo is the popular name for a landmark Australian court case, Eddie Mabo and Ors v.
		The State of Queensland and The Commonwealth of Australia, which was decided by the High Court of Australia on June the 3rd, 1992.
		The action which brought about the decision had been led by Eddie Mabo of the Meriam people (from the Murray Islands of the Torres Strait).
	www.gurupedia.com /m/ma/mabo.htm (248 words)

	Returning Eddie Mabo's remains to Mer
		The stories and moral code associated with this ancestral deity were quoted repeatedly by Eddie Mabo and his fellow plaintiffs in their High Court challenge to the concept of terra nullius, the legal fiction that Australia belonged to no-one before it was claimed by Europeans.
		The long journey from the Townsville cemetery, where Eddie was buried in January 1992, has been precipitated by an act of vandalism after the very public traditional tombstone unveiling last year on the third anniversary of the High Court's Mabo decision.
		Explains Eddie Mabo Junior, '[Dad] was buried in Townsville because of Mum's grieving, but after the desecration on the night of June 3, it was easy for her to say OK we'll take him home.
	users.tce.rmit.edu.au /e21811/merrillfindlay/nonfiction/mabo.html (2262 words)

	Biography of Eddie Mabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eddie Koiki Sambo changed his birth name to Eddie Koiki Mabo.
		Koiki’s mother died shortly after his birth and was given to his mother’s brother, Benny Mabo and his wife to raise their son.
		When he was seventeen a teenage prank landed koiki in trouble with the island council and he was exiled.
	www.petra.ac.id /asc/aborigines/well_known/biography_eddie.html (167 words)

	Curtin to honour land rights leader
		"Mabo Day is an important time to remember the achievements of Eddie Mabo and the importance of the land rights movement in Australia," he said.
		Mabo Day marks the anniversary of the June 3, 1992 High Court decision that overturned the view that Australia was Terra Nullius at the time of colonisation.
		The judgement found the ancestors of Eddie Mabo and fellow claimants had occupied the Torres Strait Island of Mer for hundreds of years before the arrival of the British, thereby recognising Indigenous people had valid legal claims to Australia.
	announce.curtin.edu.au /release2004/c10605.html (342 words)

	European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights: news
		November 14, 2003 - MELVILLE ISLAND, ANTIPODEAN STANDARD DREAMTIME: The eternal spirit of Eddie Mabo officially proclaimed the the Great Southern Rainbow Republic of Antipodea late today, in a small ceremony on the island formerly known by British Colonial Office bureaucrats as ‘Melville’.
		The ceremony was attended by over a dozen spirit generations of ‘Australians’ of all nationalities, races and creeds, along with countless numbers of the island’s original inhabitants, stretching back beyond all recorded White Man’s time.
		Mr Mabo is entitled to be an agitator
	www.eniar.org /news/mabo2.html (461 words)

	Eddie Mabo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eddie Mabo was a fighter for the land rights of Aboriginals.
		Eddies Mabo led his people into court challenging the Queensland Government in 1982.
		Eddie Mabo challenged the right of the Queensland Government to take away his peoples land.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/7724/Eddie_Mabo.html (138 words)

	Manning Clark House - Mabo Day June 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mabo Day is the one day Australians can set aside each year to celebrate our unity as a society and how we achieve that unity.
		The Mabo Decision was a decision made in Australia, a decision made by Australians and a decision made for Australians.
		The Mabo Decision was a decision of a wholly Australian institution – the High Court of Australia – and not, as it could once have been, a decision of the Privy Council in a distant land.
	www.manningclark.org.au /papers/mabo_day_2002.htm (931 words)

	IPA in the News \| Mabo and Other Myths
		First, to clarify an ambiguity, while it is true that the case brought by Eddie Mabo and others resulted in native title being recognised by Australian common law, it is not true his claims succeeded: on the contrary, they were denied by Mr Justice Moynihan's Supreme Court judgement.
		Eddie Mabo's case may, therefore, be characterised as successful in the general, but a failure in the specific: to say Mabo's land claim was 'eventually successful' is too bald.
		That most of the land claims in the original Mabo case failed is not without significance for native title's wider prospects, and makes the spread of the mythology about Mabo (which Stuart Macintyre does rather more egregiously in his Concise History) particularly unfortunate.
	www.ipa.org.au /files/news_537.html (495 words)

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