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• Early Life.....................................................................................................1

• What Difficulties Did He Experience?..................................................3

• What Rights did he Want for Indigenous People?.............................2

• Why Did He Fight For Aboriginal Rights?............................................4

• Timeline of Mabo’s Life..........................................................................5

• Glossary.....................................................................................................6

• Index.............................................................................................................7

• Bibliography................................................................................................8

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Early LIfe

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Mabo’s real name is Eddie Kionky Mabo. He was born June the 26th, 1936 on Torres Island. Mabo was still a kid when his

mother died so his uncle and his wife had to look after him until he was old enough to look after himself. When he was in

his twenties he got married to Bonita Nehow. He had ten children. As he grew a bit older he got a job as a gardener, he also was a member of the Merrian people and spoke about

wanting to get his land back to a lawyer.

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What Difficulties did Mabo Experience?

Mabo faced many difficulties during his life. One of the difficulties Mabo had to overcome was when he was younger was getting expelled from his own land. At the time Australia thought Mabo’s land was Terra Nullias land, and belonged to

them to do with as they liked. Mabo spent about a decade fighting for the rights to his land in the

High Court of Australia

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What Rights did he want for Indigenous People?

Eddie Mabo proved terra nullias wrong so when he was in Queensland he established whose land it was. The court case allowed all

indigenous people to claim land if they were using it. Unforunately, Mabo didn’t live to see that he got the land back and that he won the

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Why did he Fight for Aboriginal Rights?

The reason Mabo fought for aboriginal people is so they could regain their rightful land and use it for traditional reasons such as hunting, living and ceremonies.

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Timeline of Mabo’s life1936 Eddie Mabo is born

1974 Eddie Mabo worked as a gardener at James Cook University

1981 A landrights conference is held at James Cook University

1992 High Court decides to reject terra nullius

1992 Eddie Mabo dies

1993The Keating goverment wins the election and negotiates land rights with Indigenous leaders

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Glossary

Ceremonies: Celebrating a particular event. Expelled: Making someone leave land, schools or anything else like that.Merrian people: People who live on the island.Terra nullias: The land is not owned by anybody.Decade: ten yearsEstablished: developed Indigenous: people who were on the land first

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Index Aboriganal 4 Indigenous 7 Mabo 1,3,4,5,6,7

Terra nullias 5,7

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Bibliography

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/fight-for-land-rights-changed-history/story-fnat7jnn-1226613120932, 3rd of July 2014.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-03/mabo-a-timeline/4047186, 1st of July, 2014.

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