Some People Want to Shoot Me

Madelaine Dickie · Wayne Bergmann

Mac 2025 · Fremantle Press · Kimesimuliwa na Tamala Shelton

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‘I’ve spent the majority of my life fighting for the rights of Traditional Owners. This has put me in the firing line. But I chose this job, I chose this political path. My family did not.’ – Wayne Bergmann

It’s Broome, 2010. Nyikina man Wayne Bergmann has just received a death threat. His wife has watched a friend cross the road to avoid speaking with her. His children are subject to intense schoolyard bullying. Bergmann, a boilermaker by trade, and lawyer, is chief executive of the Kimberley Land Council during the controversial James Price Point gas hub negotiations. It’s an event that will tear the Broome community apart. Wayne’s story starts on Nyikina country and encompasses backbreaking station work, buried treasure, a Swedish bone thief and traditional magic love songs. His is an electrifying tale of resilience, determination and optimism, which shows what it takes to be an Aboriginal person walking in two cultures in a country where racism runs deep.

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Madelaine Dickie spent a year living among the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. She was on a Prime Minister¿s Australia Asia Endeavour Award to finish her first novel, and conducted research at Universitas Padjadjaran and Universitas Islam Bandung. She has won the 2014 City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript Troppo. Dickie received a $12,000 cash prize and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Her manuscript was selected from 61 entries by a panel of judges that included Delys Bird, Susan Midalia, Richard Rossiter and Fremantle Press publisher Georgia Richter. The T.A.G. Hungerford Award recognises an unpublished work of fiction or creative nonfiction by a West Australian author who has not previously published a work of fiction in book form.

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