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'''Mabo Day''' occurs annually on 3 June. It commemorates [[Eddie Koiki Mabo]] (''c''. 29 June 1936–21 January 1992) <ref>{{cite web|last=Caldicott|first=Helen|title=Eddie Mabo|url=http://www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/australians/emabo.htm|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mabo Day|url=http://www.tsra.gov.au/the-torres-strait/events/mabo-day.aspx|publisher=Torres Strait Regional Authority|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref> a [[Torres Strait Islanders|Torres Strait Islander]] whose campaign for Indigenous [[land rights]] led to a landmark decision of the [[High Court of Australia]] that, on 3 June 1992, overturned the [[legal fiction]] of ''[[terra nullius]]'' which had characterised Australian law with regards to land and title since the voyage of [[James Cook]] in 1770.
Mabo Day is a gazetted bank holiday in Queensland. In 2010 a campaign was launched to make it a national holiday in Australia<ref>{{cite web|title=Calls for Mabo Day to be national holiday|url=http://tsd.atsiphj.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72|publisher=Torres Strait Directory|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref> It has been suggested that Mabo Day is more significant to Australians than the [[Queen's Birthday]] (a national holiday in Australia), since it 'marks the day that non-indigenous Australians were given the opportunity to reverse the damage caused by the colonisation process'. THAT IS RUBBISH
<ref>{{cite web|title=Mabo Day - 3 June|url=http://www.indymedia.org.au/2010/06/04/mabo-day-3-june|publisher=Indymedia Australia|accessdate=15 March 2011}}</ref> In 2002, on the tenth anniversary of the High Court decision, Mabo's widow, Bonita Mabo, called for a national public holiday on 3 June. On the eleventh anniversary, in 2003, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) launched a petition to make 3 June an Australian Public Holiday. Eddie Mabo Jnr, for the Mabo family, said:
<blockquote>We believe that a public holiday would be fitting to honour and recognise the contribution to the High Court decision of not only my father and his co-plaintiffs, James Rice, Father Dave Passi, Sam Passi and Celuia Salee, but also to acknowledge all Indigenous Australians who have empowered and inspired each other.</blockquote>
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