Liturgies
Tuesday, June 3rd
Mabo Day – Liturgy June 1, 2025
This Sunday on the eve of National Reconciliation week we celebrate Mabo Day. It is marked annually on 3 June. It commemorates Mer Island man Eddie Koiki Mabo and his successful efforts to overturn the legal fiction of terra nullius, or land belonging to no-one.
Eddie challenged the Australian legal system and fought for recognition of the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners of their land.