Who we are
Our Governance
The Mabo Centre Advisory Board is comprised of up to eleven members, providing context, advice, guidance, and experience to the Centre Director in the discharge of their managerial functions. Members bring a range of experience and knowledge to the Advisory Board and representation is required from:
Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, leadership within the Traditional Owner sector, expertise in areas such as government administration, natural resource management, human rights, economics, and regional development, gender diversity, and a senior academic from the University of Melbourne.
Our People
Partners
Imagery
Gail Mabo
Meriam, Australia, born 1965
Mabo, 2024, Mixed media on canvas
“In honour of my father this is my first mixed media artwork titled Mabo.
Through this work I wanted to convey the extraordinary memory of Edward Koiki Mabo’s fight and pay tribute to his culture and the importance of cultural connection to the place he called home, the Island of ‘Mer’. The law of the Malo was the power of proof of cultural connection to Country.
"Benny Mabo, my Father was the Sixteenth generation and I'm Koiki Mabo, Seventh generation of proud warriors who conquered and settled in Mer."
The words on the canvas demonstrate his unending dedication towards a fight that ultimately took his physical life however now live eternally through his handwritten words.
Reflected in his last diary entry is his profound love for his wife Bonita Mabo the most beautiful woman in his life, his dearly beloved children and his people.
This man fought with sheer determination to achieve the most important fight for Indigenous Australia to the highest court in the land and won.
This man is called Eddie Koiki Mabo.”
