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Palm Island: through a long lens / Watson, Joanne.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780855757038
Title	Palm Island through a long lens / Watson, Joanne.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2010.
Description	Electronic resource ; Online.
Publication Dates	2010.
Note	Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2011.
Conditions of access	Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary	In November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee's 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.::Despite prolonged media attention, much of it negative and full of stereotypes, few Australians know the turbulent history of 'Australia's Alcatraz', a political prison set up to exile Queensland's 'troublesome blacks'.::In 'Palm Island: Through a Long Lens', Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present, set against a background of some of the most explosive episodes in Queensland history.
Subjects	Aboriginal Australians -- History
	Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History
	Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- History
	Palm Island Aboriginal Reserve (Qld.) -- History
	Australia -- Race relations -- History
Call number	Informit database (IIC)
Internet Site	Access to full text via Informit e-Library