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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.

• 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
• Child caged for 500km drive to jail
  04.05.2004
  AN 11-year-old Aboriginal boy was arrested, held in custody and transported 500km in a police utility cage. His crime? Graffiti: He wrote his own name in spray paint on a footpath and road in the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Normanton last month. The... read more
• Human spirit will not be confined
  04.10.2003
  By: Tony Koch Click here for full page image in PDF format NEXT week Brisbane will be visited by a remarkable man. He's American, black, a former prizefighter and soldier, and he spent more than 20 years in prison for the nightclub... read more
• Murrandoo, the man
  23.11.2002
  Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner relishes a good fight and has no plans to lose the battle at Pasminco's Century Mine. Tony Koch reports MURRANDOO Yanner had his violent altercation at 15. He decked his woodwork teacher and was promptly... read more
• Facing the DEMON
  24.11.2001
  By: Tony Koch (Noel Pearson Extract from a paper delivered in May 2001. "A very great proportion of the violence in our communities is associated with grog ...the court convictions and clinic records show this clearly. If we get on top... read more
• Shouting to be heard
  21.11.2001
  By: Peter Charlton Once again, a report by Tony Fitzgerald QC has produced shockwaves in Queensland. But will it have any impact outside the state? National affairs editor Peter Charlton reports IN MAY this year, at a bookshop in inner Sydney,... read more