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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... claimed the continent for Great Britain — gold was discovered in a valley near Laura . When local Aborigines speared the Europeans ' stock or pilfered their supplies , white settlers and then troopers — white and black — set out from ...
... claimed the continent for Great Britain — gold was discovered in a valley near Laura . When local Aborigines speared the Europeans ' stock or pilfered their supplies , white settlers and then troopers — white and black — set out from ...
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... claimed his prisoner had tripped on a step . The guide did not know him . Policemen don't last long in these places . So many passed through , he said , that it was hard to remem- ber one from another . But he knew the case . Everyone ...
... claimed his prisoner had tripped on a step . The guide did not know him . Policemen don't last long in these places . So many passed through , he said , that it was hard to remem- ber one from another . But he knew the case . Everyone ...
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... claimed : Chris dragged him in and he laid him down here and started kicking him . All I could see [ was ] the elbow gone down , up and down , like that . . . “ Do you want more Mister , Mister Doomadgee ? Do you want more of these , eh ...
... claimed : Chris dragged him in and he laid him down here and started kicking him . All I could see [ was ] the elbow gone down , up and down , like that . . . “ Do you want more Mister , Mister Doomadgee ? Do you want more of these , eh ...
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... claimed he left Hurley alone with Doomadgee for ten seconds while opening the door to one of the station's two cells . When he returned the prisoner was limp . Leafe and Hurley each took Cameron Doomadgee by a wrist and dragged him on ...
... claimed he left Hurley alone with Doomadgee for ten seconds while opening the door to one of the station's two cells . When he returned the prisoner was limp . Leafe and Hurley each took Cameron Doomadgee by a wrist and dragged him on ...
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... claimed he was “gutted” by the allegations made against him. They pointed to the extensive volunteer work he'd done with Aboriginal children and to his Aboriginal friends. He even had a skin name; he'd been adopted into an Indigenous ...
... claimed he was “gutted” by the allegations made against him. They pointed to the extensive volunteer work he'd done with Aboriginal children and to his Aboriginal friends. He even had a skin name; he'd been adopted into an Indigenous ...
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