Aboriginal laws were never written. They were passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next. Their elders of the tribe decided upon aboriginal laws. The other members of the tribe generally accepted them. When a law was broken, it was usually for the person who had broken the law to meet in public with the person who had been affected by the action. The rest of the whole tribe would witness …
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…to be too quick to make judgments. Mabo gave us a new and exciting vision of Australia. It opened a window on the past and showed us what Australia can become. It is almost as if having started on the wrong road in 1788, Mabo set a new direction in 1992 which will lead us to the full flowering of nationhood. A return to a better place remembered by the Aborigines and Islanders of the Torres Strait.