| Mabo was the first case where the full bench of the High Court was asked to consider the common-law recognition of land rights. |
| It took some time from the delivery of the Mabo judgment before many in government and business awoke properly to the implications of native title. |
| If one goes back to the common law cases, what all was changed in Mabo was that a different view was taken of a historical fact, and a historical error was corrected. |
| The Australian High Court's 1992 decision in the Mabo case to recognise native title is one of the most important and yet misunderstood court decisions in Australian history. |
| In 1992, in Mabo v Queensland, the High Court of Australia recognised native title in Australia for the first time. |
| Like all complex matters and processual moments in time, concerns and aspirations twelve years on from the Mabo decision vary markedly. |
