Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
As an ABC radio news cadet in 1989 I travelled with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody to Walgett in northwest NSW in a small twin-engine Cessna. It was so cramped that the Commissioner, the wry and avuncular Hal Wootten QC, had to sit in the co-pilot’s seat and hand out the in‑flight biscuits.
