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This is the first study of the stories behind the court appearances

and Australia’s war in Vietnam

Previous to her appointment as an Australian Research Council Fellow

No Ordinary Judgement biography Reference listThis is the inside story of the Mabo case, a unique court drama where rights and interests previously unknown to Anglo Australian law came to be recognised by the High Court of Australia. In far north east Australia lie the homelands of the Meriam, a dynamic seafaring, fishing and gardening people. They explained in court, often eloquently, how their 'cultural way' retains a fidelity to distinctive principles while also accommodating new ideas and