AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Law –

A real life Heart of Darkness in the Australian badlands”. About the death in custody of an Indigenous person.

The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country. The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. Above all, it is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.

• 277 p. : ill., 1 map ; 20 cm. #070625

• • Doomadgee, Mulrunji
  • Hurley, Christopher
  • Prisoners, Aboriginal Australian — Death
  • Police — Complaints against — Queensland — Palm Island
  • Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.)