Mabo decision

this is a image of?

• The Mabo legal team
• The Mabo family
• The Mabo FUTSAL team
• 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?

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

Edie Mabo began his quest for justice when?

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

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

• happy
• overjoyed
• shocked
• excited

The term terra nullius means?

• conquered land belonging to an empire
• land belonging to no one
• land disputed by neighboring 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
• 1986
• 1982

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

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