The Latest Breaking News from Eddie Mabo

Indigenous people’s 60,000 years of connection to their country should be recognised, leaders say.

A deep divide has arisen over the High Court and role it could play over a Voice to Parliament. For some, it's raising echoes of past Indigenous rights battles, writes Elizabeth Byrne.

Eddie Mabo was a Meriam man, educator and campaigner for land rights. Now famously known as the Mabo Case, Mabo and other community members won their action against federal and state governments to claim native title to the Murray Islands. Unfortunately, Mabo passed away before seeing this final verdict.

Kaleb Mabo was always curious about the home his grandfather Eddie "Koiki" Mabo fought so hard to protect, but it was on a return visit three years ago that he was inspired to act.

As a young reporter, I saw a listing for a case at the High Court of Australia. Few Australians then knew the name Eddie Mabo but I sensed this case may change Australia, says Stan Grant in this extract from his 2022 Mabo Lecture.

Tranby is an Indigenous adult education school in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Glebe. Founded in 1957, its graduates include Eddie Mabo, who went on to win the most significant land rights legal battle in Australian history – overturning the fiction of terra nullius.

Today marks 30 years since the Mabo decision was handed down in the High Court, overturning the concept of terra nullius, which claimed Australia was owned by no-one prior to white settlement.

Here's your TL;DR for this morning's news.

As Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo sketched out his plans to shake the foundations of Australian law, he told his teenage daughter his prophecy: "One day, all of Australia will know my name." He was right.