Still angry’ over Palm Island custody death
Pat Mullins; 4/7/08
Waters, Jeff, Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island, ABC Books, 2008, RRP $24.95,ISBN 9780733322167
ABC journalist Jeff Waters gives a highly readable account of the death in police custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island in November 2004, the subsequent reaction of the community, and the process leading to the eventual acquittal of the police officer involved. After reading and re-reading his work Waters describes his reaction as ’still angry’. He hopes his readers ‘become so too.’
See: http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=7944
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Human Rights