Sunday the 3rd of June marks the 20th Anniversary of the Mabo decision in the High Court. After a decade of litigation, the High Court rejected the concept of terra nullius and recognised the unique rights that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples have to land and water.

Read the full text of the decision via Westlaw AU here.

The following online videos about Eddie Mabo, the case and the struggle for native title are available online via the Library:

Mabo Revisited (Four Corners ABC, 2012)

Twenty years after the High Court's historic Mabo judgement, Four Corners reports on the impact of the decision, the response it inspired and the inside story of the negotiations that paved the way for native title

Mabo Life of an Island Man (DECS Tape Services, 2010)

Relates the life of Eddie Koiki Mabo and his struggles to get his rights to his traditional land on Murray Island in the Torres Strait recognized. His family, including his wife Bonita and son Eddie Jr., as well as influential friends such as Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds.

From Wave Hill to Wik and beyond : the struggle for native title (VEA and ABC, 2009)

In six segments of chronological order, this program looks at the struggle to win native title and land rights since the 1960s. *Video requires installation of Microsoft Silverlight to run

Land Bilong Islanders (Blackout, ABC, 1993)

Three Murray Islanders, Koiki "Eddie" Mabo, James Rice, and Father Dave Passi, challenge the Queensland and Australian Governments in a land rights dispute, claiming that islanders, not the state, owns the land. This programme shows something of their struggle, and at the end, the verdict given in the court case.