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	Mabo may refer to: Mabo, Togo Mabo, Togo Mabo, Togo is a village in the Bassar in the Kara Region of north-western Togo.ReferencesExternal links... , a village in Togo Eddie Mabo Eddie Mabo Eddie Koiki Mabo* was a Torres Strait Islanders who became famous in Australian history 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 title.... , 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 (1988) Mabo v Queensland (1988) *Mabo v Queensland* was a significant court legal case decided in the High Court of Australia on December 8 1988. It found that the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act, which attempted to retrospectively abolish native title rights, was not valid according to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.... , a landmark Australian court case over native title Mabo v Queensland Mabo v Queensland *Mabo v Queensland* was a landmark case Australian court case which was decided by the High Court of Australia on June 3, 1992. The effective result of the judgement was to make irrelevant the declaration of terra nullius, or "land belonging to no-one" which had been taken to occur from the commencement United Kingdom colonisation in... , a second native title case in Australia Mabo: Life of an Island Man, a film produced and co-directed by Trevor Graham