Bonita Mabo

Bonita Mabo
Born Bonita Neehow[1]
Halifax, Queensland
Spouse(s)
Eddie Mabo
(m. 1959; d. 1992)

Bonita Mabo AO[2] [3]is an educator[4] and activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders.[5][6][7] She is the widow of Eddie Mabo.[5]

Bonita Mabo was born in Halifax, Queensland and is an Australian South Sea Islander of Ni-Vanuatu descent whose ancestors were "blackbirded" to work in the sugar cane industry in Queensland.[4] Her grandfather was "blackbirded" from Tanna in what is now Vanuatu.[8]

In the 2012 television film Mabo, Deborah Mailman played the role of Bonita Mabo.[9]

On 31 May 2018, a star was named in her honour at the Sydney Observatory, during the visit of the N.S.W. Judicial Commission's Ngara Yura Program to the Observatory. Her daughter Ms Gail Mabo was present, since Bonita was ill. Another star, Koiki, had been named in memory of Eddie Koiki Mabo in 2015 on the 23rd anniversary of the Mabo decision.

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies - Eddie Koiki Mabo". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "MABO, Ernestine Bonita - Officer of the Order of Australia - 26 January 2013". It's an Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia). Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Bonita Mabo awarded AO". ABC News (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. 1 2 Fraser, Andrew (26 January 2013). "Bonita Mabo's battle as vital as Eddie's". The Australian. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  5. 1 2 "It's time, says Bonita Mabo". Sydney Morning Herald. 2004-08-01. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  6. ↑ Negus, George (2003-08-06). "Bonita Mabo Interview". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  7. ↑ MacLean, Danielle. "For Who I Am-Bonita Mabo". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  8. ↑ Stephens, Tony (31 May 2002). "10 years after Mabo, Eddie's spirit dances on". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  9. ↑ "Bonita Mabo honoured by Mailman at Logies award". National Indigenous Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
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