Mabon.
/ˈmɑːbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɑboʊ/, Australian English /ˈmʌːboʊ/ Australian.
attributive. Designating an Australian high court judgment made in 1992 which recognized for the first time that Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders had ancestral rights to land dating from before European settlement. Also in Mabo-style adj.The case, lodged in 1982, contested the notion that property rights had not existed prior to 1788 colonization. The ‘native title’ validated by the 1992 judgment grants only limited rights to land use and occupation, as opposed to freehold ownership.
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Mabo1992
1992 Australian 4 June 2/7 The first claim which will be determined under the Mabo rules involves a large area of north-western Australia in the Kimberleys.
1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 July 1/2 An Aboriginal leader, named as a Mabo-style claimant to valuable bauxite land on western Cape York, said yesterday he had not given permission for his name to be used.
1993 Guardian 20 Oct. i. 9/1 The Mabo ruling..rejected Britain's justification for settling Australia, finding that its doctrine of terra nullius, or land belonging to no one, ignored prior Aboriginal occupation.
1997 Economist (Electronic ed.) 6 Dec. The former Labor government upheld the Mabo principle when it passed the Native Title Act in 1993.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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