Eddie Koiki Mabo and fellow Meriam claimants began High Court proceedings asserting traditional ownership of their island lands. Their action challenged the colonial legal foundations used to deny Indigenous title. The claimants brought their own system of landholding before a court operating within the settler state. This date marks the opening of the litigation, not the landmark judgment delivered in 1992.
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20 May 1982 marks the start of the litigation. The landmark High Court judgment followed in 1992.
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