Eddie Mabo

Land rights are still bitterly contested, passionately fought over and, irrefutably, close to the hearts of thousands of Aboriginal people all over Australia. Land rights and the Land Councils, never far from controversy, are, once again in the political spotlight. While the critics change, their arguments have basically remained unchanged for nearly two decades. Land rights, one of the few positive outcomes to emerge for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory in the past 40 years, has…