The 40-year-old lobster case that could have been Australia's mainland Mabo

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Forty years since Narooma lobster case that could have transformed Indigenous fishing rights in NSW

When Ron Mason and Norm Patten were charged with the possession of undersized lobster in 1982, their defence relied on a legal argument that would finally be recognised with the Mabo decision a decade later.