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Mabo Day leads today's complete edition for Australia.
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The day the High Court recognized native title and overturned the fiction of terra nullius. Eddie Mabo's fight was personal and it changed the legal landscape of an entire continent. Most Australians could not tell you the date. That is the gap this day is meant to close.
You discover Sri Lanka's unique leopards, Asian elephants, and colorful Sri Lankan junglefowl throughout the island's forests and parks. You observe that Sri Lankan families typically keep chickens, water buffalo, and domestic dogs as their most common household animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.