- Title
- Dead ends : the vanishing of Marilyn Wallman
- Creator
- Morrissey, Belinda; Davis, Kristen
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/190369
- Identifier
- vital:17605
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-644-220211007
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781800436442 (ISBN); 9781800436459 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- This paper documents the case of a young girl who went missing from a country track in 1972. It considers the function of roads in her disappearance, and the importance and terror of roads generally in Australia. For roads have a role in Australia that is vastly different to smaller, more populous nations. Roads in Australia are absolutely crucial to the maintenance and sustenance of society. So too are the cars and other vehicles we use upon them, but they are just as paradoxical in their effects. As Elizabeth Jacka and Susan Dermody (1988, p. 113) put it so plainly: ‘our cars kill us, and without them we would die’. The case of the girl who vanished from a road is not an unusual event in Australia. However, it has led to a conjunction of long-lasting effects, particularly on the community of Mackay, that are. The case has never been solved, not due to a desire to solve it, but ironically because of the very methods initially employed to do so. © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
- Relation
- Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside Chapter 7 p. 95-107
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited
- Subject
- Disappearance; Marilyn Wallman; Objective violence; Police investigations; Roads; Systemic violence
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