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| The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper - Wed 9 Jul 2008 | |
| Please join us for the Canberra launch of
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper Wednesday July 9 5.45 for 6.00pm RSVP Tuesday July 8 Telephone 6295 6723 or email events@paperchainbookstore.com.au about the book 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. A witness said Hurley beat Doomadgee to death; Hurley said he fell on him accidentally, and left him in his cell, not realising how badly he was injured. The death was only the beginning of the story. The coroner decided Hurley had no case to answer, causing a rioting mob to lay siege to the police station. Then a commission led by Sir Lawrence Street found that he did, resulting in a trial that hit the national headlines day after day, and threatened police industrial action. Hurley was, finally, acquitted: was an innocent man vindicated, or a guilty one set free? And was it a co-incidence that the same day, John Howard announced his government's intervention in Aboriginal communities? about the author Chloe Hooper was educated at the Lauriston Girls' School in Melbourne, the University of Melbourne and Columbia University, New York, where she studied creative writing under Philip Roth. Hooper's first novel A Child's Book of True Crime was launched at the 2002 Adelaide Writers' Week. |
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