- Death, Police, Police brutality, Australia
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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Chloe Hooper
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Scribner, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin (Australia)
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416561590
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- Death
- Police
- Police brutality
- Australia
- Complaints against
- Aboriginal Australian Prisoners
- Doomadgee, Mulrunji
- Hurley, Chris
- Police brutality -- Australia -- Great Palm Island (Qld.)
- Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Great Palm Island (Qld.) -- Death
- Police -- Complaints against -- Australia -- Great Palm Island (Qld.)
- Police, complaints against
Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author. <h3>Works contributed to:</h3> - Essay *Diary of a Convert* in [Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22909329W) (Hardie Grant Books, 2013)
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