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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.

• Ku Klux Klan jibe lands professor in jail
  22.02.2000
  By: Tony Koch, Ali Lawlor AUSTRALIA'S most prominent Aboriginal health expert suffered spinal injuries when she was thrown into the back of a police wagon after telling six officers they were acting like the Ku Klux Klan. Professor... read more
• Serious Aboriginal issues will prevail
  04.12.1999
  THREE years ago, Gracelyn Smallwood, then Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, said that fighting for land rights and ignoring the health needs of indigenous people was an example of twisted priorities. ``What good is ownership... read more
• Violent silence
  23.11.1999
  By: Tony Koch The evacuation of health workers from an Aboriginal community is caused by violence which is neither uncommon nor surprising, writes chief reporter Tony Koch. A YEAR ago, two sons of murdered South African freedom fighter... read more
• The man in the middle
  06.11.1999
  Aboriginal lawyer Noel Pearson took Premier Peter Beattie to Cape York last week to hear a request for Aborigines to reject social welfare. Tony Koch reports AN ELDERLY black woman and her three-year-old grandson attended last week's gathering of... read more
• Aboriginal violence soars out of control
  15.10.1999
  SHOCKING new evidence of spiralling domestic violence in indigenous communities has prompted Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron to order a nationwide check on hospital admissions. Senator Herron said last night he was horrified by one community... read more
• Brothers up in arms
  02.10.1999
  TWO thoughts struck me when I met Cape York Land Council chairman, Richard Ahmat, in his Cairns office yesterday. Facially, he was not unlike the Gulf firebrand Murrandoo Yanner and, typical of his indigenous brother, he was angry. It's not a good... read more
• THE CULTURE OF ACCEPTANCE
  08.05.1999
  THE 45 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who made up the inquiry team looking into violence and alcohol abuse on indigenous communities probably did not need to conduct an outside interview. They see the problems every day. They have to live... read more