Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Doomadgee inquest hears of more systemic issues, prejudice and a need for solutions

The families of three Indigenous women once again made the 1,000-kilometre trek from Doomadgee to Cairns this week in search of answers. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Doomadgee inquest to hear submissions

The inquest into the 2004 death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee in the Palm Island watch-house, off Townsville in north Queensland, will hear submissions in Brisbane today. Mr Doomadgee, 36, died from ...
The Age

Doomadgee deliberately kneed, court told

SENIOR Sergeant Chris Hurley "deliberately" kneed indigenous man Mulrunji Doomadgee in the stomach in the doorway of the Palm Island police station, rupturing his liver and causing him to bleed to ...
WESA

The Racially Charged Crime That Rocked An Island

In 2004 on Palm Island, off the coast of north of Australia, a 36-year-old Aborigine man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested as a public nuisance for swearing at a police officer. He was brought into ...
The Australian

Five years on, Doomadgee death investigators facing discipline

On the fifth anniversary of Doomadgee's watchhouse death, which sparked riots in the Aboriginal community off Townsville, the yet-to-be finalised CMC report has condemned police handling of the ...
The Australian

Girl's death at Doomadgee prompts new Queensland Health guidelines on indigenous deaths

QUEENSLAND Health will develop guidelines on deaths in indigenous communities and how to communicate with families, an inquest into a girl's' death has heard. On Tuesday, the first day of the inquest, ...
Green Left Weekly

Doomadgee family: 'inquiry will be a whitewash'

With the coronial inquiry still pending into the November death-in-custody of Cameron Doomadgee, the Queensland government and its police force have been able to avoid taking responsibility for the ...
The Cairns Post

Mystery surrounds Doomadgee man's death in crocodile-inhabited Nicholson River

Investigating officers say they have not ruled out foul play after the man’s lifeless body was found in a remote river in the Gulf of Carpentaria region. The 43-year-old Doomadgee man died on Sunday, ...
Couriermail

Doomadgee family given settlement over death in custody

Cameron Doomadgee, 36, - who was also known as Mulrunji - died on the floor of a Palm Island watchhouse in north Queensland in 2004 from massive internal injuries, including broken ribs, a ruptured ...
Couriermail

No action against Doomadgee officers

QUEENSLAND'S anti-corruption watchdog is powerless to challenge a decision not to take disciplinary action against police who botched the Palm Island death-in-custody investigations. Crime and ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Doomadgee laid to rest

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Young Eric Doomadgee, the forgotten son of the Palm Island riot, led his 3,000-strong community on a ...