Palm Island

Description:

In November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgees tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.

subjects: Race relations,  Government policy,  Social conditions,  Aboriginal Australians,  Legal status, laws,  History,  Aboriginal australians, government relations,  Queensland, history,  Australia, social conditions

Places: Queensland,  Great Palm Island (Qld.),  Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.),  Great Palm Island