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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

• Dead man's son the forgotten one
  02.12.2004
  THERE'S a lonely boy on Palm Island who cried yesterday as he told how he'd lost his best hunting and fishing mate -- his dad. On this troubled island, 15-year-old Eric Doomadgee is the forgotten person -- the only child of Cameron Doomadgee who died... read more
• Island kids get to the art of the matter
  01.12.2004
  THE children of Palm Island reclaimed their school yesterday, returning to the classrooms that had been turned into a makeshift headquarters for riot police when the community descended into anarchy and the courthouse and police station were... read more
• Kill police as payback, says radical
  01.12.2004
  BLACK radical Murrandoo Yanner could face criminal charges after yesterday advocating that police be killed as payback for the death in custody of an Aboriginal man on Queensland's Palm Island. Blaming police for the November 19 death of Cameron... read more
• Second autopsy for Palm Islander
  30.11.2004
  THE family of Cameron Doomadgee, who died in a police cell on Queensland's troubled Palm Island, have delayed his funeral to allow a second, independent autopsy. The family wants to challenge the finding of a Queensland government pathologist that... read more
• Praying to heal the wounds
  30.11.2004
  IN the crush of Aborigines and police in full riot-squad armour milling around Palm Island's main shopping mall yesterday, a tiny Franciscan nun was going about her business and wondering if things would ever change. Irish-born Sister Christina McGlynn... read more
• Second autopsy for Palm Islander
  30.11.2004
  THE family of Cameron Doomadgee, who died in a police cell on Queensland's troubled Palm Island, have delayed his funeral to allow a second, independent autopsy. The family wants to challenge the finding of a Queensland government pathologist that... read more
• Police accused over island `terror tactics'
  29.11.2004
  POLICE on Queensland's riot-torn Palm Island have been accused of using the Aboriginal population as terrorism guinea pigs after children as young as nine were forced at gunpoint to lie face down on floors during late-night raids by Tactical Response... read more