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Chloe Hooper draws comparisons between the characters of Captain Brodie and Manny Cooktown (based on Robert Curry and Peter Prior) in Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and the lives of Senior Sargeant Christopher Hurley and Cameron Doomadgee as a means of exploring the complexity of life on Palm Island.
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'This essay is based on the 2008 Thea Astley Memorial Lecture, given at the Byron Bay Writers' Festival in July [2008].'
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- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 1996 single work novel
- Palm Island, Ingham area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
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