Palm Island
Subtitle: through a long lens
By: Joanne Watson
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780855757038
Description: In November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgees tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-196) and index.