As Australia transitions to a cleaner ... their native title rights in the changing economy. Eddie Koiki Mabo's landmark High Court case paved the way for native title. Now, his family has gifted ...

The decision could potentially pave the way for millions of dollars in compensation for mining on the Gove peninsula without ...

Any such payouts will be designed, in line with the Mabo decision itself, to benefit a privileged layer of indigenous land ...

Ms Mabo’s ­father, Eddie Koiki Mabo, was a gardener at James Cook Univer­sity when he led the High Court case that resulted ... Lowe write in an essay in The Australian on Tuesday that some ...

Beth Butchers is the recipient of an Australian Government Research Training ... There were three main issues that were debated before the High Court: whether native title land can be acquired ...

The High Court ... that equality [of Australian citizens before the law] and perpetuate its own form of injustice”. Writing separately, Justice Simon Steward, one of the court’s more ...

The High Court has confirmed that native title is property and Gumatj traditional owners should be compensated. What does it mean nationally?

It was more than 30 years ago when a landmark legal case, brought about by Eddie Koiki Mabo and fellow Mer ... when the group lodged their legal claim in the High Court for ownership of their lands.

Indigenous elders from Arnhem Land have won a historic victory in their 60-year fight for land rights, after the High Court ... Australian law. This was overruled two decades later with the Mabo ...

A Wiradjuri man will face court for allegedly trespassing on university property he argues was illegally occupied two ...

Ever since Rio Tinto (legally) blew up 46,000-year-old sacred rock caves in Western Australia’s Juukan ... of Melbourne’s forthcoming Eddie Mabo Centre, named after the pioneering land rights ...

The High Court has ruled that indigenous land owners are entitled to "just terms" compensation for acts between 1911 and 1978. Gumatj leaders Djawa Yunupingu and Balupalu Yunupingu celebrate outside ...