Mabo Decision

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• The Mabo legal team
• The Mabo FUTSAL team
• The Mabo family
• The Mabo social club

Eddie Mabo was born 

• in northern Queensland
• in the Northern Territory
• on Murray Island
• on Great Keppel Island

The Mabo legal battle was spread over  

• 15 years
• 10 years
• 5 years
• 7 years

Edie Mabo began his quest for justice when 

• he was denied permission to build  a house in Cairns
• his family was racially vilified
• his education was interrupted
• authorities refused to allow him to return home

When he learned that his people’s traditional ownership of his birth place was not recognised by Australian law, Eddie was

• overjoyed
• happy
• shocked
• excited

The term terra nullius means

• conquered land belonging to an empire
• land belonging to no one
• land disputed by neighbouring countries
• land owned and managed by traditional inhabitants

Mabo and four other Torres Strait Islanders started legal action against the State of Queensland to establish who owned the island in 

• 1980
• 1984
• 1982
• 1986

Queensland’s Bjelke-Petersen Government was so concerned by the case,

• it gave up sovereignty to Murray Island
• it banned the Meriam people from civic participation
• it passed laws denying Aboriginals the right to vote
• it passed laws to cement ownership of the Torres Strait Islands

The case went to the Supreme Court of Queensland in

• 1985
• 1988
• 1989
• 1991

The High Court ruled that the Meriam people held native title over Murray Island

• by a six-to-one majority
• by a four-to-three majority
• by a five-to-two majority
• by a seven-to-one majority