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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The 1992 High Court decision in the Mabo case was a watershed—it established the legal doctrine of ...

Two of the lawyers behind the landmark claim by land rights activist Eddie Mabo say native title has not lived up to its potential and that an “excessively legalistic” system is often to blame. Greg ...

On 3rd June 1992 the High Court delivered its decision in the Mabo Case. The judgment rejected the legal fiction of Terra Nullius and gave recognition to the notion of Native Title. Rear Vision this ...

This four-part series takes viewers inside the High Court of Australia, where ordinary citizens challenge the laws that define the nation. Across four landmark cases, personal battles become ...

TODAY, on what would’ve been his 80th birthday, Google has paid respects to Aboriginal lands right activist, Edward Koiki Mabo. The late Aboriginal lands right activist has been honoured with a Google ...

The former chief justice was an unequalled judicial reformer who presided over the Mabo decision – and stood by his advice that Gough Whitlam could be sacked. The Albanese government has backed away ...

The decision upholding native title as a property right is a win for the long-running Gumatj case but is also said to have ‘long-term ramifications’ A high court decision on native title has the ...

While emotional scenes greeted the inquiry's arrival, it could be under threat, with the state's opposition vowing to scrap truth-telling. Betty Tekahika-Mabo (left) says truth-telling of atrocities ...