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Indlæser... The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island. Chloe Hooper (original 2008; udgave 2009)af Chloe Hooper
Work InformationTall Man: The Death of Doomadgee af Chloe Hooper (2008)
  
Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A sad, hard, important book. (  ) Amzzz | Oct 10, 2022 |  Read 2018, favourite. (  ) sasameyuki | May 7, 2020 | Powerful, insightful, disturbing, depressing and just plain hopeless. What have we done to the true Australians? Chloe Hooper's account of Palm Island and the death-in-custody of Cameron Doomadgee reveals the dystopian mess of race relations in Australia. But within, there is flickering hope. A few individuals who are beaten down, but keep getting up again. Women mostly. (  ) PhilipJHunt | Jul 6, 2017 | A difficult book to read, because it is a worldwide wide not an Australian book about an Australian problem. Before I had gone far, I knew what the outcome was going to be. Be it Australia, The United States, Africa or Europe, the problem is the same. Book needs to be read. But more importantly, people need to change. ( ) busterrll | Dec 18, 2014 | Palm Island, November 2004. A 36 year old Aboriginal man, Cameron Doomadgee, is arrested for swearing at a police officer. He is drunk, and as they arrive at the station he strikes Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley in the face. 45 minutes later Cameron Doomadgee is dead, his liver cleaved in two as you might see after a fatal car crash. The police say he fell on a step but others disagree. A week later there is a riot during which the police station is burnt to the ground and Hurley’s residence with it. A relief team is sent in and Hurley goes into hiding. But the case doesn’t go away. An inquest is launched, then a criminal trial. It’s the first time in Australian history that a police officer has been brought before the law to answer for the death of an Aboriginal prisoner in their care. In the process the trial comes to embody all of the hurt and guilt and prejudice that underline relations between native and white Australia. ( ) dalzan | Oct 22, 2012 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Hæderspriser
In 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. No library descriptions found. |
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