Ebook: Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
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- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Scribner
- City: Queensland;Great Palm Island
- Language: English
- epub
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "deep north" of Australia, Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse, his liver ruptured. This account goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice.;Cover; Colophon; ALSO BY CHLOE HOOPER; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ONE; The Island; The Death; The Investigation; The Family; The Riot; Belief; The Inquest; TWO; Doomadgee; Burketown; THREE; The Inquest Resumes; The Funeral; The Submissions; The Findings; The Rally; FOUR; The Trial; The Accused; Amazing Grace; The Verdict; Postscript; Acknowledgments
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