Record ID:
35456077 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nr 94009712
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19360629
  • Murray Islands (Qld.)
Death:
  • 19920121
  • Brisbane (Qld.)
Associated with:
  • Australia Queensland
Fields of activity:
  • Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure Native title (Australia) Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc
Occupations:
  • Political activists
Used for:
  • Mabo, Eddie, 1936-1992
  • Mabo, Eddie Koiki, 1936-1992
  • Mabo, Edward Koiki, 1936-1992
  • Mado, Eddie
Notes:
  • Request by family member (12 May 2011) for name to be formalised.
  • AIATSIS website, viewed on 26 November 2018 Eddie Koiki Mabo (... was born on 29 June, 1936, on the island of Mer (Murray Island) in the Torres Strait ... He was an activist in the 1967 Referendum campaign and helped found the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service ... In 1981, Koiki gave his first speech at a land rights conference at the James Cook University explaining the traditional land ownership and inheritance system ... On 20 May 1982, Koiki and fellow Mer Islanders - Reverend David Passi, Celuia Mapoo Salee, Sam Passi and James Rice began their legal claim for ownership of their lands on the island of Mer with the High Court of Australia. With Koiki as the first named plaintiff, the case became known as the ‘Mabo Case’) https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/eddie-koiki-mabo
  • LC/NAF 7 June 2021: authorized access point (Mabo, Eddie)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)48190
  • abv13394597
  • 000000458652
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX81851
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc