He was locked up for being drunk and a public nuisance, and at the time of his arrest had no visible injuries. It's peaceful.". These actions followed the death in custody of Aboriginal man Cameron Doomadgee, referred to by his traditional name Mulrunji after his arrest and confrontation with . [6], In 2020 a memorial plaque to Mulrinji was erected by Palm Island Aboriginal Council outside the police station on Palm Island, reading:[84].mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, In memory of Mulrinji / whose life was tragically taken on 19th November 2004. Cameron Doomadgee died at the age of 36. Coronial inquiry into Mulrunji's death begins. 2016. [15], On Friday 26 November 2004 the results of the autopsy report were read to a public meeting by then Palm Island Council Chairwoman Erykah Kyle. Lawyers for Chris Hurley appeal to Queensland's District Court to overturn Deputy Coroner Christine Clement's 26 September 2006 findings that he had fatally injured Mulurunji. During this time no attempts were made to resuscitate the prisoner, although the autopsy found that there would have been no chance of saving him. (By comparison, even in 2012 a journalist publicly maintained the view that the medical consensus regarding the possibility the injury could have been caused during the fall was incorrect. The death of Mulrunji Doomadgee and the illusion of postcolonial Australia SARAH KEENAN REFERENCES 1. As a way of helping them understand and cope with the on-going trauma they had experienced, children were later encouraged to express themselves through art, one of the resulting pieces was titled "We saw the police station burn. In response to the findings, riots break out on the island. [27] His comment was criticized as hypocritical and systematic of "one rule for us and one for whites and that's a racist legal system where the cops get their way" by Burketown "I think that's something at the end of the day that we have to live with.". [88] The CMC demanded that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) hand over the tapes and backup tapes of particular interviews with Yanner and Foster which were central to the investigation, the interviews then had to be deleted from ABC audio and computers. [11][16], A crowd headed initially for the police station. [34], In late September 2006, Clements found that Doomadgee was killed as a result of punches by Hurley. no semblance of understanding" about the context of the Palm Island community's distress and anger as to what had happened to Mulrunji and the progress of the investigation . 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The Tall Man - Reading Australia The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper It was reasoned that if they stayed in a different community in Townsville there was a low likelihood of re-offending. The Council boycotted the ceremony and only thirty people attended the ceremony, half of whom were holding placards demanding more money be spent on employment and health services. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Tall Man, the Death of Doomadgee - amazon.com Eighteen local police had to repeatedly retreat; firstly receding from the station to the residential barracks, then when the barracks were also set alight they (and their families) withdrew to the hospital and barricaded themselves in. The Court did not accept that inevitably follows and pointed out that Bramwell's evidence could be said not to "leave room for such an occurrence". The Magistrate determined that due to the "state of emergency" it would be too dangerous to allow the defendants to return to Palm Island, therefore bail was not considered. The case arose from the 2004 death in custody of Mulrunji, previously known as Cameron Doomadgee, whose treatment sparked riots on the island.