Eddie Mabo is one of the most famous and significant Australian Aboriginals. He is famous for campaigning for Indigenous land rights. He was born on the 29th of June‚ 1946‚ on Murray Island‚ in the Torres Strait. Eddie Mabo married Bonita Newhow and together they had ten children. In 1982 Eddie Mabo and four other Torres Strait Islanders initiated action against the Australian Authorities calming ownership of their land on Murray Island. Eddie Mabo was exiled from Murray Island when he was sixteen
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The Laramie Project and Mabo are both texts featured in the life writing genre. The Laramie Project is presented as a play‚ while Mabo is a biographical film. Both The Laramie Project and Mabo use life writing codes and conventions to convey the ideas and themes of each text. While they both share similar themes‚ the way life writing codes and conventions are applied differentiates The Laramie Project and Mabo. In the film‚ Mabo the viewer is positioned to align themselves with Eddie and feel empathy
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Could Eddie have succeeded without the help of Netta ‘Mabo’ is an Austalian TV film which was released in 2012 which depicts the life of Eddie koiki Mabo utilizing narrative techniques and elements in which a typical drama consists of. Eddie Koiki Mabo is played by Jimi Bani and his wife Bonita/Netta Mabo was played by Deborah Mailman‚ the film was directed my Rachel Perkins and produced by BlackfellaFilms and the ABC. The principal story of Eddie’s journey from an exiled Murray islander to a justice
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A question often Raised in regards to the Mabo case is whether the legal effects of the ruling have had a positive or negative effect on not only the legal system but also society as a whole. The term Mabo refers to all issues relating to the Australian High Court judgement in the Mabo v. Queensland case. On the 3rd of June‚ 1992‚ after a decade long lawsuit‚ the High Court ruled that the land title of the Indigenous Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders is recognised at common law. This Indigenous
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Timeline of the court cases in ‘Mabo’ The Queensland land rights case had barely even begun before QLD premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen attempts to prevent it. QLD government passes the Declaratoy Act to retrosepectively extinguish native title on QLD’s costal islands. This indicates that the government regognises the potential for the Mabo case to set a precedent that could impact on future land
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FEDERALISM Federalism is a form of government which unites separate political entities‚ within a national system whilst still retaining their independence (AUSTRALIANPOLITICS.COM‚ 2011). In this essay it will be discussed that the ‘Mabo Decision’ and the implementation of the Native Title Act‚ 1993‚ is an example of this and will be analysed whilst unearthing the challenges and benefits which were exhumed within this historical test case‚ whilst explaining the impact of the High Court Ddecision
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Documentaries and feature films make history alive‚ relevant and increase our understanding and empathy of significant historical events. This quote is a brilliant quote that outlines the relevance of the Documentary and Feature Film of the Eddie Mabo and his case‚ Which was an very important case that was taken to the Supreme Court of Australia to argue for the land right ownership of Murray Island and the Torres strait Islands and the debates arguments main point was about the law of the god of
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of the Aborigine land rights movement. Eddie Mabo/ the land rights movement played a substantially influential role in pushing exceedingly for the native title rights for the indigenous people and played a key role in the Native Title Act which extinguished terra nullius and acknowledged the land of the Indigenous people of Australia. This was consequently brought upon the people of Australia firstly by the Gurinhji strike‚ secondly by the Eddie Mabo case and lastly by the Wik case. These movements
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Important ideas are at the heat of every film. In your view‚ what important ideas are explored in Pleasantville also referring specifically to the opening montage? To survive in a society an individual needs to be able to cope with the changing society. The 1998 film Pleasantville‚ directed by Garry Ross is a social commentary on the changing values upheld in the 1950s contrasted to the 1990s. The concept of transformation of an individual and the society is explored deliberately through the use
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their families. Until only recently‚ indigenous people were living at a lower standard than other people‚ and no-one fought for their rights. However‚ there have been significant advancements in the Aboriginal fight for self-determination‚ such as the Mabo act‚ and Rudd’s apology to the stolen generation. Self Determination is the ability for a group of individuals to make their own decisions‚ thus improving the quality of life for those individuals. Take that right away‚ and they have a significantly
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