Drumgold chronicles the bloody and violent civil war in the Solomon Islands in the 1990s and the intervening actions of Australia in July 2003. This is the first story of Solomon Islanders squashed under the Regional Assistance Mission juggernaut.

In November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee's tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.