On 3 June 1992, the High Court in Australia handed down its historic Native Title judgement also known as the Mabo ruling. The case was led by Eddie Koiki Mabo, a Torres Strait Islander man who refused to accept that his home, which had been handed down through his family for 15 generations, belonged to the crown.
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