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8. Palm Island - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
On the morning of 19 November 2004, Cameron Doomadgee, known to his community as Mulrunji, was arrested on Palm Island for allegedly swearing at a passing police car. Forty four minutes later, he was dead in a cell, with internal injuries doctors compared to a high speed car crash. The autopsy findings, made public a week later, set off one of the most significant instances of civil unrest involving an Aboriginal community in modern Australian history. This episode covers Palm Island's own history as one of Queensland's most punitive forced settlements, what happened to Mulrunji in custody…
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