Background
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Mabo

Type Telemovie
Company Tradewind Films
Director Rachel Perkins
Producer Darren Dale and Miranda Dear
Writer Sue Smith
Synopsis

This television drama tells the story of one of Australia’s national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.