Mabo
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Mabo may refer to:
- Mabo, TogoMabo, TogoMabo, Togo is a village in the Bassar Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-western Togo.-External links:**...
, a village in Togo - Eddie MaboEddie MaboEddie Koiki Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander who is known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia that overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius which characterised Australian law with regards to land and...
, a man from the Torres Strait Islands who fought a court case, attempting to assert a legal title over his tribe's traditional lands- Mabo v Queensland (No 1) (1988), striking down the Coast Islands Act under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975Racial Discrimination Act 1975The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 is a statute passed by the Australian Parliament during the Prime Ministership of Labor Gough Whitlam....
- Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992), a landmark case recognizing native title in Australia for the first time
- Mabo: Life of an Island Man, a film produced and co-directed by Trevor Graham
- Mabo v Queensland (No 1) (1988), striking down the Coast Islands Act under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
- Ma Bo (Chinese writer) (born 1947), Blood Red Sunset