In 1974, he was talking with JCU historians Noel Loos and Henry Reynolds, and Loos recalls: we were having lunch one day in Reynolds' office when Koiki was just speaking about his land back on Mer, or Murray Island.
1974 hatte er eine heftige Diskussion mit Professor Noel Loos und Henry Reynolds, einem Historiker, der die Reaktion von Eddie Mabo wie folgt wiedergibt: ...we were having lunch one day in Reynold’s office when Koiki was just speaking about his land back on Mer, or Murray Island.