ABSTRACT
This special issue of the University of Queensland Law Journal presents a varied series of perspectives on the High CourtÕs recognition of common law native title: Mabo v Queensland (No 2).1 So far as its title might imply that there has been a radical overthrow of the common law, it is a misnomer. But it is possible that the title is not so inappropriate after all, since in antiquated usage ÔrevolutionÕ merely connoted the turning of a full circle. It could be argued that the common law of Australia has now turned full circle to what it was upon the arrival of British law.
