Tall Man: The Death of DoomadgeeIn 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations for his work. Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee's family. He told her it would take a couple of weeks. She spent three years following Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most remote parts of Australia, exploring Aboriginal myths and history and the roots of brutal chaos in the Palm Island community. Her stunning account goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice. Told in luminous detail, Tall Man is as urgent as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The Executioner's Song. It is the story of two worlds clashing -- and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget. |
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... Gladys Nugent , a big , gentle - looking woman , was diabetic and needed an escort to collect " sugar " ( insulin ) from Roy Bramwell's fridge . Roy was her partner , and it was he who'd just beaten Gladys and her sisters . So shortly ...
... Gladys Nugent , a big , gentle - looking woman , was diabetic and needed an escort to collect " sugar " ( insulin ) from Roy Bramwell's fridge . Roy was her partner , and it was he who'd just beaten Gladys and her sisters . So shortly ...
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... going fishing in the police boat , Jet Skiing to the locals ' chagrin — on the dam , and spending sultry evenings drinking and playing pool . But now he sat waiting for Gladys Nugent, who had been bashed and was THE DEATH 21 224.
... going fishing in the police boat , Jet Skiing to the locals ' chagrin — on the dam , and spending sultry evenings drinking and playing pool . But now he sat waiting for Gladys Nugent, who had been bashed and was THE DEATH 21 224.
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The Death of Doomadgee Chloe Hooper. waiting for Gladys Nugent, who had been bashed and was still half drunk and probably ... Gladys Nugent's nephew Patrick, a thin boy whose mother was one of the women Bramwell had beaten. Drunk and high ...
The Death of Doomadgee Chloe Hooper. waiting for Gladys Nugent, who had been bashed and was still half drunk and probably ... Gladys Nugent's nephew Patrick, a thin boy whose mother was one of the women Bramwell had beaten. Drunk and high ...
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... Gladys Nugent , now back in the van with her insulin . Kidner reckoned Cameron was singing " Who Let the Dogs Out , ” a one - hit wonder by the Baha Men that went : Who let the dogs out ( woof , woof , woof , woof ) . Who let the dogs ...
... Gladys Nugent , now back in the van with her insulin . Kidner reckoned Cameron was singing " Who Let the Dogs Out , ” a one - hit wonder by the Baha Men that went : Who let the dogs out ( woof , woof , woof , woof ) . Who let the dogs ...
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... Gladys at her sister's house and by 10:26 had returned to the station . Outside , in Police Lane , Penny Sibley , a frail , gray - haired Aboriginal woman , was waiting to get money from Ben- garoo . She was taking his goddaughter to ...
... Gladys at her sister's house and by 10:26 had returned to the station . Outside , in Police Lane , Penny Sibley , a frail , gray - haired Aboriginal woman , was waiting to get money from Ben- garoo . She was taking his goddaughter to ...
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