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Mabo – Life of an Island Man: NFSA Digital Restoration
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Title:
Mabo – Life of an Island Man: NFSA Digital Restoration
NFSA ID
1522330
Year
1997
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Mabo: Life of An Island Man.
The documentary tells the private and public story of Eddie Koiki Mabo, who was born on Murray Island in the Torres Strait. Mabo's actions helped change the legal and political landscape of Australia.
On 3 June 1992, six months after Eddie Mabo's tragic death, the High Court of Australia upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held 'native title' to three islands on the eastern fringe of the Torres Strait.
Eddie Mabo is seated on the right in the image from Mabo: Life of An Island Man, 1997, Film Australia Collection © NFSA.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.