Eddie Mabo

By Crane.Indianna
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    Life and Death

  • Eddie Mabo birth

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    Engaged in Indigenous rights

    Engaged in active community service in the spheres of politics, trade unions, Indigenous Australian rights and services, and public events.

  • James Cook University

    Eddie Mabo worked as a gardener at James Cook University

  • Court

    Spoke at a conference about land rights in the Torres Strait at JCU. Decision made to take the Murray Islanders’ case to court.

  • Eddie Mabo Death

    Eddie Koiki Mabo passed away.

  • High Court overturned

    The High Court overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ‘land belonging to nothing, no one’ delivering a verdict in favor of the Murray Islanders in Mabo v Queensland