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Millionplus Australian real estate for saleOh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was the strength of the Flynn legend that the band named its second album Sirocco, after the schooner the adventure-seeking 20-year-old sailed from Sydney to New Guinea in 1929. Presumably it wasn’t Errol the tobacco planter and slave trader that inspired the...
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SlowTV: A Gala Night of Storytelling: Tsiolkas, Safran and Hooper
Chloe Hooper | Literature | Melbourne | Culture
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia's leading writers and storytellers come together to tell the stories that have been handed down to them. In this section of the program, Christos Tsiolkas, John... » play video -
Boxing for Palm Island
Chloe Hooper | February 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Society & CultureTen years ago, Ray Dennis found himself out of work. Each day he made more home-brew and started killing himself drinking it. Then he remembered the talent of the young men he'd trained from Palm Island, the Aboriginal ex-mission community north of Townsville. He decided to move there with the aim... -
Under the Rainshadow
Chloe Hooper | Books | September 2008When I first travelled to Palm Island, to attend the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody, I was venturing into Astley country. The great Thea Astley (1925-2004) had a love of the fecundity and the rot of tropical life, of small communities where agoraphobia and claustrophobia... -
SlowTV: Chloe Hooper in conversation with Sally Warhaft about The Tall Man
Chloe Hooper | Indigenous | Interview | Melbourne | Palm Island | Culture
Chloe Hooper discusses the writing of her new non-fiction book The Tall Man with former Monthly editor Sally Warhaft. Exploring the events surrounding the death of Cameron Doomadgee in police custody on Palm Island, the book expands on the story originally told in her Walkley Award-winning essay in... » play video -
Take Me to the River: Climate Change in the Mallee
Chloe Hooper | The Monthly Essays | Environment | February 2007Then he must record the rainfall, or lack of it. The water gauge is a 30-centimetre aluminium tin set in the ground with a plastic beaker inside. As if in a Beckett sketch, Hill checks it each day, knowing there'll be no water. "It tried to rain last night," he explains, "but as the locals say, you... -
Who Let the Dogs Out?: Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
Chloe Hooper | The Monthly Essays | November 2006On the morning of 19 November 2004, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Palm Island's rangy 33-year-old officer in charge, had arrested Cameron Doomadgee (known sometimes as Mulrunji), 36, for committing a public nuisance. Doomadgee was drunk - "happy drunk", community members said - and singing his... -
Consider the Lily
Chloe Hooper | The Nation Reviewed | June 2006Nearly six months after the Grampians bushfires, the national park has the eerie beauty of a land from a fairytale. Rows of blackened trees are decked in regrowth resembling green fur coats. These epicormic shoots are signs of the park’s recovery. The Australian bush is, after all,... -
Jefferson Country Dreaming
Chloe Hooper | The Nation Reviewed | April 2006Travelling on Interstate 64 through the heartland of Virginia, a sign appears: The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Exiting the highway, you arrive at a large white neo-Georgian house, surrounded by hedges, on the former estate of Thomas Jefferson. The museum, owned by the University of... -
The Tall Man: Inside Palm Island's Heart of Darkness
Chloe Hooper | The Monthly Essays | March 2006Travelling to Palm Island is like a sequence from a dream: the pale green sea seems so luminous and so fecund, and the plane flies so close to it, you see seals, and what might be dugongs and giant turtles. As the plane turns to land the island unfolds. The mountains meet the palm-lined shore,... -
Young Libs in the Chocolate Factory: Tomorrow's Liberal leaders have issues with gays, greenies, young mums, Malcolm Fraser - and each other
Chloe Hooper | The Monthly Essays | June 2005James Stevens, however, stands back, hands on hips. He is the 21-year-old president of the South Australian Young Liberals, a tanned, handsome man, and he wears Cadbury’s regulation hair-cover and a serious expression. In his shiny black business shoes and rolled shirtsleeves he looks to be... -
Freedom
Chloe Hooper | The Nation Reviewed | May 2005In the early morning of March 2 a smoking ceremony took place on Palm Island, north Queensland, to release the spirit of Mulrunji, who died last November in police custody. The sky was overcast and cockatoos screeched overhead as Mulrunji’s cousin, the activist Murrandoo Yanner, covered the...
