Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-92) was a Torres Strait Islander who changed Australian history by challenging the legal fiction of terra nullius - that Australia was "empty land" before British colonization. Born on Mer (Murray Island), Mabo discovered as an adult that despite his people living there for thousands of years, they had no legal ownership of their land. In 1982, he began a decade-long legal battle that reached the High Court. Five months after his death in 1992, the court ruled in his favor
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Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-92) was a Torres Strait Islander who changed Australian history by challenging the legal fiction of terra nullius - that Australia was "empty land" before British colonization. Born on Mer (Murray Island), Mabo discovered as an adult that despite his people living there for thousands of years, they had no legal ownership of their land. In 1982, he began a decade-long legal battle that reached the High Court. Five months after his death in 1992, the court ruled in his favor
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