Google
Doodle features eminent Australian indige**us rights leader
On what would have been Eddie Mabo's 80th birthday,
Google Australia has featured the
Australian indige**us rights campaigner as Wednesday's
Google Doodle.
Born in the*Torres Strait Islands in **rthern Australia, Mabo's name is sy**nymous with the native title movement, which saw some
indige**us Australians regain control of their ancestral lands.
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In 1992, a legal suit, **w k**wn as the
"Mabo Case," officially overturned the concept of*
terra nullius in the High Court of Australia. The idea that Australia was empty and belonged to ** one when the British discovered it in 1770,*
terra nullius*allowed*European settlers to take the land with ** regard for its original inhabitants.
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