Dr Ernestine "Bonita" Mabo AO, has been remembered at her state funeral as the "mother of native title" and matriarch of reconciliation. Close to 1,000 people attended the funeral in Townsville to ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is vibrant, our people are resilient. Why are we still the most disadvantaged group in Australia? The biennial Mabo oration was held earlier this week to ...

Judgment commemorated at festival in Townsville as Eddie Mabo’s daughter Gail urges governments to spend more time talking with Indigenous communities Eddie Mabo used to tell his daughter his name ...

Kaleb Mabo wants a new national holiday. One celebrating his grandfather, Eddie Koiki Mabo. A man who pioneered the country’s most monumental Indigenous land rights case. And won. Remember him? For ...

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GAIL Mabo gave birth to a boy she named William the day before she buried her father. Almost six months later, on June 3, 1992, she was breastfeeding her baby outside Kempsey Hospital when she heard ...

People gathered this week in Townsville, Queensland, to remember a seminal moment in the nation's history, and the efforts of one man to bring it about. Aboriginal Australians are celebrating the 20th ...