Eddie Mabo timelime

By Yliong

  • Eddie Mabo was born

    Robert Zezou Sambo and Annie Mabo gives birth to Eddie Mabo

  • Moved from Mer to the mainland

    Worked at many different jobs
  • Married Bonita Nehow

    Married Bonita Nehow

    (Born 1943)

  • Engaged in community services

    Engaged in Indigenous Australia rights, service and public events.

  • 'We the Australians: What is to Follow the Referendum?

    Helped organise a seminar

  • Eddie Mabos Father died

    Eddies father was suffering from tuberculosis but they weren't allowed to visit him because Eddie was a non-islander.

  • Eddie Mabo discovered he did not have legal title over his land

  • Land rights case launched

  • Eddie passed away