Bonita Mabo died in Brisbane on 26 November 2018, aged 75.
(meta data) TITLE: Bonita Mabo, prominent Indigenous rights activist, dies days after receiving accolade - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (meta data) AUTHOR: https://www.abc.net.au/news/isabella-higgins/7079282 (meta data) PUBLISHER: https://www.facebook.com/abcnews.au 95 captures 26 Nov 2018 - 29 Sep 2022 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. Collection: abc.net.au-news The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20181126062601/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-26/bonita-mabo-dies-days-after-human-rights-accolade/10555496 ABC Home Open Sites menu # Bonita Mabo, prominent Indigenous rights activist, dies days after receiving accolade By the Specialist Reporting Team's Isabella Higgins November 26, 2018 17:15:39 Photo: Bonita Mabo, the wife of the late land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo, has died. (AAP/CLPR: Matt Nettheim) Map: Cairns 4870 Prominent Indigenous and South Sea Islander activist Bonita Mabo has died. Mabo was the wife of Eddie Mabo and worked alongside him in the pursuit of Indigenous land rights. Just days ago, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from James Cook University for her contribution to social justice and human rights. In a statement, The Australian South Sea Islander Alliance said she would "be greatly missed". "Aunty Bonita's contribution to social justice and human rights for First Nations People and the Australian South Sea Islander recognition was monumental and relentless," the statement read. "A formidable 'Woman Tanna', Aunty Bonita will be greatly missed as Australia has lost one of the greatest matriarchs of all time." Mabo was a descendant of Vanuatuan workers brought to Queensland to work on sugar plantations. She was born near Ingham in North Queensland and married Eddie in 1959. The couple went on to have 10 children and in 1972 Mabo set up Australia's first Aboriginal community school. ## The Mabo decision Eddie Mabo spent a decade fighting for official recognition of his people's ownership of Mer Island in the Torres Strait. Video: 'We're proud as punch' (ABC News) Her husband did not live to see the result, but in 1992 Bonita Mabo was making her way from North Queensland to Canberra when the landmark decision was handed down. In 2017, she recalled that moment. "We were just outside of Sydney and we stopped and pulled up on the side of the road and Malita rang us and said 'dad won the decision, won the case'," she said. "And we just jumped out and we just hugged each other. "We were proud as punch." In recent years, she had been fighting for South Sea Islanders to be recognised in Australia as their own distinct ethnic group. She was recognised in the Order of Australia in 2013 for "distinguished service to the Indigenous community and to human rights". More to come. 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