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Death in Yuendumu
Where everything is black and white and nothing is - a haunting true story of death and survival in a remote outback community
416 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2025
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December 24, 2025
A very important read for Australians. Whilst it was a bit confusing keeping up with all of the different people, the story made its way through and the racism of the NT Police is deplorable. Though I doubt it’s only in the NT. Too many First Nations deaths in custody and by police! Something has to change!!
November 3, 2025
Steven Schubert has written a nuanced and balanced work covering both the events of the murder and it's aftermath.
He also acknowledges the many small decisions that turned Yuendumu and the many other remote communities from vibrant self supporting centres into abandoned poverty traps.
The list of disgraceful characters that populate the book only start with the highly unpleasant Rolfe family, the scum of the legal profession that enabled them, a judge who should have been struck off for his instructions to the jury and the many many thugs who wander in and out of the NT police.
How did the murder of a young man in his own community become fodder for the white trash of Newscorp?
This whole event could have been prevented so many times from the 1900's onwards and yet we ended here.
He also acknowledges the many small decisions that turned Yuendumu and the many other remote communities from vibrant self supporting centres into abandoned poverty traps.
The list of disgraceful characters that populate the book only start with the highly unpleasant Rolfe family, the scum of the legal profession that enabled them, a judge who should have been struck off for his instructions to the jury and the many many thugs who wander in and out of the NT police.
How did the murder of a young man in his own community become fodder for the white trash of Newscorp?
This whole event could have been prevented so many times from the 1900's onwards and yet we ended here.
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