The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island
Author(s): Chloe Hooper
True Crime | Indigenous | Issues/Current Affairs
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he was dead, his liver (according to the inquest) so badly damaged it was almost severed.
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Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Gleebooks Award for Cultural & Literary Criticism 2009 and ABIA Australian General Non-fiction Book of the Year 2009.
General Fields
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- : penguin
- : penguin
- : 0.38
- : 31 October 2008
- : 230mm X mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Chloe Hooper
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 364.349915
- : 288
- : illustrations