Mabo decision

…a lawsuit (popularly called the Mabo case, for Eddie Koiki Mabo, the first-named plaintiff) brought by several individuals that was won in the High Court of Australia in 1992; subsequent cases were also settled in favour of other groups of islanders. In 1994 the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) was…

…Court in the so-called “Mabo case” (named for the first-cited plaintiff, Eddie Koiki Mabo) recognized the concept of “native title” and overturned the previous concept of terra nullius (Latin: “the land of no one”), which had deprived the Indigenous peoples of their customary property rights. In 1994 the Torres…