The answers revealed
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Question 1: Who is Mabo Day named after?
Answer: b. Eddie Mabo.
Question 2: The colonial myth that Australia was ‘nobody’s land’ was known as what?
Answer: b. Terra nullius.
Question 3: Who was Eddie Mabo?
Answer: c. An activist.
Question 4: What is Mabo Day?
Answer: a. A day to honour the landmark Mabo decision.
Question 5: What did the Mabo decision recognise?
Answer: d. All of the above: That Australia was not in fact empty land when the British invaded; the land rights of the Meriam People, as the traditional owners of the Murray Islands in the Torres Strait; and the traditional rights of First Nations People to their land and waters.
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