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.
It is the story of two worlds clashing -- and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget..
Told in luminous detail, Tall Man is as urgent as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The Executioner\'s Song.
Her stunning account goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice.
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.
He told her it would take a couple of weeks.
Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee\'s family.
The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations for his work.
The police claimed he\'d tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured.
Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse.
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
