SHOP NOW: free delivery anywhere in Australia for two or more books

Read an excerpt
ISBN: 9781760992378
Dimensions: C Format: 23x15.2cm
Pages: 224
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Share via:      

Some People Want to Shoot Me

Written by Wayne Bergmann
Written by Madelaine Dickie

$35.99 GST

Choose your gift wrap design

Kraft paper ($2.00)

Choose your gift wrap design

Kraft paper ($2.00)

Remaining/Maximum Characters: 100/100
$37.99

‘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.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

‘It is a pulsating story of resilience, determination and optimism, and lays bare what it takes to be an Aboriginal person walking in two worlds and cultures in a country where racism runs deep.’ National Indigenous Times


Pages: 224
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Share via:      

Wayne Bergmann

Wayne Bergmann is an Indigenous leader from the Kimberley region. He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading advocates for Indigenous self-determination through economic empowerment and opportunity, specialising in native title and mining negotiations, capital and business structuring. Bergmann is a Nyikina man, boilermaker-welder, lawyer and entrepreneur. He has served as Executive Director of Kimberley Aboriginal […]

Madelaine Dickie

Madelaine Dickie loves to write, loves to surf and loves fishing with her hundred-pound handline. In the last twelve years she’s wandered and worked in Jakarta, Broome, Wyndham, Tokyo, Exmouth and Arnhem Land. In 2022, she took off on an eight-month surf drift through Mexico with her husband and eighteen-month-old son. They had a pistachio-coloured […]