It has been 20 years today since High Court handed down its decision on Mabo v Queensland (No 2), the landmark case known as Mabo, which paved the way for recognition of native title in Australia.

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 ...

Tony Abbott’s visit to the grave of Eddie Mabo is a chance to ask who we are as a nation, to recognise our dark past and strive for a brighter future When I was a boy my grandfather, a Kamilaroi man ...

Canada has signed more than 70 treaties with its Indigenous peoples. The United States has more than 300 treaties. Our neighbour, New Zealand, has the Treaty of Waitangi. Countries such as Ecuador, ...

It is Mambo versus Mabo, and it looks like the Australian surfwear company whose T-shirts feature a cartoon Jesus and farting dogs picked the wrong fight. Eddie Mabo is Australia's best-known land ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should exercise caution when viewing this article as it contains names and images of deceased persons, which may cause distress to members of ...

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 ...

Mr Abbott described Mabo's home island of Mer as "a special place" Tony Abbott has become the first Australian prime minister to visit the resting place of Indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie ...