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 ...

It was a moment of pure joy. WARNING: This story contains images of Indigenous people who have died. When the High Court delivered its 1996 Wik decision, recognising pastoral leases could co-exist ...

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 ...

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 ...

I believe Australians will one day give consideration to the hope of Bonita Mabo, widow of Eddie Mabo, that June 3 be recognised officially as a national day. The question of the legal status of Terra ...

The Queensland cabinet didn't talk about the landmark Mabo Indigenous land rights ruling until five months after the High Court's decision, new cabinet documents show.

Justice Toohey, who died in Perth on Thursday, was part of the six-one majority in the Mabo case who triggered a revolution in land law and a wave of accusations that the High Court had succumbed to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Annabelle Quince: Welcome to Rear Vision with me, Annabelle Quince. In today's program a look at the ...

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 ...