Gail Mabo is a woman in her 50s now, but when she thinks of her father she becomes a child again. She remembers watching him at night as he worked away at his desk, a man alone determined to shake the ...

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Mabo Day commemorates Torres Strait Islander Eddie Koiki Mabo and his role in overturning the “terra nullius” declaration - which claimed that Australia was once land belonging to no-one. Mabo Day ...

GAIL Mabo gave birth to a boy she named William the day before she buried her father. Almost six months later, on June 3, 1992, she was breastfeeding her baby outside Kempsey Hospital when she heard ...

Watch Rural & Regional Affairs reporter Sally Sara's look back at the Mabo legacy. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has flagged plans to speed up the native title claim system on the 20th anniversary of ...

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 ...

Judgment commemorated at festival in Townsville as Eddie Mabo’s daughter Gail urges governments to spend more time talking with Indigenous communities Eddie Mabo used to tell his daughter his name ...

Tony Abbott’s visit to the grave of Eddie Mabo is a chance to ask who we are as a nation, to recognise our dark past and strive for a brighter future When I was a boy my grandfather, a Kamilaroi man ...

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He asks to be introduced and, as the ceiling fans drone overhead, small talk and laughs are exchanged. He offers to walk her home but a small bottle of rum slips to the floor from under his shirt. He ...