Bowraville Book Launch - Dan Box in conversation with Greg Bearup

Dan Box is the creator of the Walkley Award-winning podcast, comes the incredible Bowraville, the story of a small Australian town, the murders of three children and a desperate fight for justice. Dan discusses Bowraville and the journey he went on to write it with journalist, author and fellow true-crime podcaster Greg Bearup.

About The Book

A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but nobody was convicted.

More than two decades later, homicide detective Gary Jubelin contacted Dan Box, asking him to pursue this serial killing. At that time, few others in the justice system seemed to know – or care – about the murders in Bowraville. Dan spoke to the families of the victims, Colleen Walker-Craig, Evelyn Greenup and Clinton Speedy-Duroux, as well as the lawyers, police officers and even the suspect involved in what had happened.

His investigation, as well as the families’ own determined campaigning, forced the authorities to reconsider the killings. This account asks painful questions about what ‘justice’ means and how it is delivered, as well as describing Dan’s own shifting, uncomfortable realisation that he was a reporter who crossed the line.

Praise

"Between every line of every page rests Dan Box’s big burning heart and a vast journalistic mind that never ever stops digging for answers. And the cruelest find of all might be to know that justice is not the same thing for everyone in the lucky country. Microscopic in detail, epic in importance. A heart-breaking, gut-punching masterwork of long form journalism. It’s wholly impossible to put it down but every Australian needs to pick it up. The next time you hear someone undermining the value of investigative journalism, please feel free to throw this book at them, hard, avoiding the eyes.” - Trent Dalton

About Dan Box

Dan Box is a journalist who’s worked for The Australian and London’s Sunday Times. He’s currently working for the BBC.

About Greg Bearup

Greg Bearup is an author, journalist and podcaster. He is a three-time Walkley Award-winner. He has written the books Adventures in Caravanastan, and Exit Wounds (with Major General John Cantwell). He is the creator of the podcast 'Who the hell is Hamish?’. He is currently a feature writer for The Australian.

A Note on the Venue:

This event will be held in The Vanguard (previously known as Leadbelly), which is a strictly adults only venue.