Mabo
The exhaustion and anger that came with getting Mabo laws through Parliament nearly 18 years ago are set to be repeated with the carbon pricing legislation.
Maybe even magnified, establishing a new record for bitter, marathon debate.
We will see whether a new record will be set when the bills are introduced next month, but already the Government is drawing up strategies it hopes will see carbon pricing become law by the end of the year.
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It is Thursday June 3 and today in 1992 the High Court of Australia decided in favour of Eddie Mabo in his case brought on behalf of the Torres Strait’s Islands Meriam people.
The Mabo judgement was one of the most important in our legal history, although sadly Eddie Mabo didn’t live to see the High Court decision, dying just six months before it was handed down.
Anything on your mind today, punch on.
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