AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL LAW –

Following Eddie Murray’s death in a police cell in the NSW town of Wee Waa in 1981, his parents, Arthur and Leila Murray, fought for over twenty years to have his death properly investigated. Simon Luckhurst chronicles the official inquiries and their experience of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, as well as Arthur Murray’s involvement in the 1987 Brewarrina riot. A testament to the Murray family’s courage, Eddie’s Country reveals the shocking discovery made after they had to make one of the most difficult decisions of their lives; to have Eddie’s remains exhumed.

• 340 p., [12] p. of plates : ills., map, ports., ; 25 cm. #170325
  • Law enforcement – Police conduct and attitudes
  • Law enforcement – Custody – Deaths in custody – Royal Commission
  • Race relations – Violent
  • Law enforcement – Custody – Deaths in custody
  • History – Genealogy and family history
  • Race relations – Racial discrimination
  • Law enforcement – Criminal law and procedure – Interrogation and evidence
  • Collarenebri (N NSW SH55-08)
  • Brewarrina (N NSW SH55-06)
  • Wee Waa (N NSW SH55-12)
  • Tulladunna Reserve (N NSW SH55-12)
• • Murray family
  • Murray, Edward James, 1959-1981 — Death and burial
  • Prisoners’ families — New South Wales — Wee Waa — Biography
  • Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian — New South Wales — Wee Waa — Death
  • Discrimination in justice administration — New South Wales — Wee Waa

  Australia. Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Report of the inquiry into the death of Edward James Murray