Tony Thomas, writing at Quadrant.org last year, knocked over the mainstream mythology that Eddie Mabo, whose 1994 case led to Australia’s property law being overturned, in favour of globalist native title, was merely an ordinary bloke, who took on the “racist” system, and won. Regardless of the ideological debates about the Mabo case, which has now led to over 50 percent of Australia’s land mass being under native title, Eddie Mabo was a communist. That will not bother the left, who are commos in all shapes and sizes, but just maybe it might be of value in the present Voice debate, which has a communist agenda to the core.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/03/comrade-mabo-emerges-from-the-red-closet/
“How outrageous to suggest that Eddie Koiko Mabo was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of Australia! For starters, that would suggest that Australian Communists precipitated the subsequent takeover of the 2.5 million square kilometres or the third of this continent now under native title.
In any event, Eddie Mabo repeatedly denied he was a CPA ticket-holder. He wouldn’t have lied about that, surely?
We know Senator Arthur Gietzelt AO, Bob Hawke’s one-time Minister for Veterans Affairs, was a secret CPA member despite all sorts of denials, but he was a politician, after all, and even trousered $14,500 in libel damages from the ABC in 1976 for calling him a Red. The late Stuart Macintyre in his CPA history, The Party (2022) outs Gietzelt (p248) but that was already old news.[1]
Eddie Mabo, in contrast, was such a good chap that Sir Ronald Wilson at the Human Rights Commission in 1992 awarded him posthumously a Human Rights Medal for his work for Aboriginal rights and justice. The next year, my favorite newspaper, The Australian, awarded him their Australian of the Year title. James Cook University, now notorious for its persecution of honest Barrier Reef scholar Peter Ridd, in 2008 christened its Townsville library the Eddie Koiko Mabo Library. Astronomers have named a star Koiko after Mabo, and in 2017 the Mint issued a 50-cent coin with his smiling portrait.
Well, brace yourselves. Eddie Mabo was indeed a CPA ticket-holder. The Mint might as well re-issue its Mabo 50-cents with added hammer and sickle logo. Seeing that Mabo was definitely a CPA member (Townsville branch) in 1964 during the party’s Soviet-worshipping era, the Mint could switch the coin’s wording from “Right Wrongs, Write Yes for Aborigines!” to “ Ригхт Щронгс, Ригхт Йес фор Аборигинес!”
This little essay is not about the pros and cons of the High Court’s 1992 Mabo land-rights decision, nor about whether there was anything villainous about the Communist Party doing a united-front job with oppressed Aborigines. I’m just putting stuff on the public record so Eddie Mabo’s Communist Party membership can be included in the materials copiously dished out to pre-schoolers, primary and high schoolers and starry-eyed undergrads at universities (who all might consider Communism a good thing). I hope Mabo’s greatest fan, the ABC, will amend its Mabo material after a close study of my essay.”