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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Mer Remembers Its Native Title Warriors
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'On June 3, 1992, the legal fiction of terra nullius (nobody's land) was finally overturned, after five Meriam people won their case in the High Court. The case took 10 years and two of the plaintiffs died before the fight was won.

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    y separately published work icon Koori Mail no. 653 14 June 2017 11371771 2017 newspaper issue 2017 pg. 7
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