Outlines the history of the High Court's Mabo Judgement and the Federal Government's Native Title Act, which passed through Federal Parliament just before midnight on Dec. 21, 1993. The video begins with the application lodged in the High Court in 1982
by Eddie Mabo and four other Miriam people from Murray (Mer) Island in the Torres Strait, seeking confirmation of their traditional land rights, and then the Court's decision ten years later. It concludes with a brief summary of what the Native Title Act means - and does not mean.
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