...He'd always complain about his hip...

'He'd always complain about his hip and pains in the chest. But with Eddie, he didn't want to know about it. That just went on and on. Every time he went down the doctors they said it was arthritis. He just wouldn't go to the doctors. And then it'd get the best of him and he'd go to the doctors again.'

Keywords: cancer, death, family, Mabo, Edward Koiki

Interviewed by Trevor Graham, Townsville, 1996.
Author: Graham, Trevor
© Film Australia
Source: Mabo, Bonita