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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

• New G-G pledges to fight on for Aborigines
  29.05.2008
  INCOMING governor-general Quentin Bryce feels that, with employment running at high levels, there should be greater concentration on ensuring indigenous Australians are trained to be ``job ready''. Ms Bryce, who has a 30-year history as a fighter for... read more
• Star student shows love is the way
  08.07.2006
  IT doesn't take much to turn kids' lives around, says Aboriginal criminologist Tanya Major. You just have to show them love and tell them there's a wonderful world out there. While other remote indigenous communities suffer from abuse and neglect,... read more
• Making a splash in the outback
  08.10.2005
  Thorpe has made a lifetime commitment to improving the health and education of Aboriginal children, reports Tony Koch OLYMPIC champion swimmer Ian Thorpe was searching for a cause. He had been convinced that he should lend his name and support to... read more
• Fighting against the raw prawn
  04.09.2004
  The once angry young man Murrandoo Yanner, out of jail and back with his people, is the ultimate grassroots politician, writes Tony Koch THE sun is setting across the choppy waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria when Murrandoo Yanner lets out a loud cheer... read more
• Faith restored after disenchantment
  19.07.2004
  WHEN I began work with this newspaper 22 years ago, Queensland was a vastly different place in which to live, and on which to report. Young people in this state were not happy. I was not worldly enough to appreciate that the unhappiness which manifested... read more
• Tolerance for less fortunate next step
  12.06.2004
  THERE are moments in your life when you are forced to consider the courage of others who are confronting problems the magnitude of which most of us could not conceive, cocooned as we so often are in selfish introspection. This was brought home to me... read more
• Once spoken, never forgotten
  06.12.2003
  Language is such a powerful tool that when somebody uses it well, it is something you remember SOME years ago, several members of the Queensland press gallery accompanied Premier Peter Beattie on the government jet to a function in north... read more