
This is a production still from the television docudrama Mabo (2012), directed by Rachel Perkins and starring Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo and Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo.
The TV movie chronicles the life of Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Mabo who was the driving force behind the High Court overturning the legal fiction of terra nullius ('nobody's land') applying to Australia.
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.