It is painful to read Eddie’s Country, a book that takes the reader beyond the formality, the statistics and the mind-numbing complexity of the Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody held between 1987 and 1990. Instead, we are called to bear witness to the frustration and grief endured by one family as it sought answers to questions arising from the unexpected death, in police custody, of Eddie Murray.
Eddie’s Country: Why did Eddie Murray die? by Simon Luckhurst
Magabala Books, $29.95 pb, 340 pp, 1875641947
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