After the desecration of Eddie Mabo's grave in Townsville his family decide to take his body to Mer and bury him there.

Eddie's daughter Gail Mabo explains how she could always tell when Eddie was homesick because he would paint pictures of home - Mer.

The Queensland Department of Aboriginal Affairs would not allow Mabo back to Mer, so Eddie stayed in Townsville with his family and became an activist.

This is a rich and powerful story of a man whose design created meaning for a people once invisible to mainland Australia, the people of the Torres Strait.

Soon after arriving on Thursday Island, Daubenny (Lloyd Hughes) pays Mendoza (Ronald Whelan) 1,000 pounds for his boat and his house on the island.

This clip features a lead dancer in mask and two Dari headdress dancers in the Malu-Bomai Ceremony.

Summary by Liz McNiven

A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island.

Three Torres Strait Islander men demonstrate a traditional fire-making practice.

Summary by Liz McNiven

This is a segment of home movie footage believed to have been filmed in 1933 by Arthur Thomas Sullivan, a merchant and amateur photographer, who was a resident of Thursday Island in the Torres

The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Mabo: Life of An Island Man.