Still sings loudly

Jonathan Strauss reviews Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island by Chris Waters in Still sings loudly. The book is available at these Australian libraries.

Waters discusses the circumstances of Mulrunji’s death and the two coronial inquests into it. But he also expands from this to concise accounts of the record of race relations in Queensland, the history of Palm Island as a state concentration camp for Indigenous people resisting their oppression, and current social conditions on the island.

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