Chloe Hooper
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Tsiolkas, Safran and Hooper
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 To celebrate the opening of Australia's newest cultural institution, The Wheeler Centre, some of Australia...
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Boxing for Palm Island
Chloe Hooper
Ten years ago, Ray Dennis found himself out of work. Each day he made more home-brew and started killing himself drinking it. Then he...
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Under the Rainshadow
Chloe Hooper
When I first travelled to Palm Island, to attend the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody, I was venturing into Astley country...
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Chloe Hooper in conversation with Sally Warhaft about The Tall Man
Chloe Hooper
Chloe Hooper discusses the writing of her new non-fiction book The Tall Man with former Monthly editor Sally Warhaft. Exploring the events...
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Take Me to the River: Climate Change in the Mallee
Chloe Hooper
Then 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...
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Who Let the Dogs Out?: Palm Island after the inquest into an death in custody
Chloe Hooper
On the morning of 19 November 2004, Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Palm Island's rangy 33-year-old officer in charge, had arrested Cameron...
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Consider the Lily
Chloe Hooper
Nearly six months after the Grampians bushfires, the national park has the eerie beauty of a land from a fairytale. Rows of blackened trees...
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Jefferson Country Dreaming
Chloe Hooper
Travelling on Interstate 64 through the heartland of Virginia, a sign appears: The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Exiting the...
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The Tall Man: Inside Palm Island's Heart of Darkness
Chloe Hooper
Travelling 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...
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Young Libs in the Chocolate Factory: Tomorrow's Liberal leaders have issues with gays, greenies, young mums, Malcolm Fraser - and each other
Chloe Hooper
James Stevens, however, stands back, hands on hips. He is the 21-year-old president of the South Australian Young Liberals, a tanned,...
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