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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.

• DAWN OF HOPE
  01.05.1999
  `Give our children a chance' is the plea of prominent Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson, who has written a discussion paper _ Our Right to Take Responsibility _ explaining how to break the cycle of dependency that he says is killing his people. He spoke to... read more
• PEARSON HITS WELFARE POISON
  30.04.1999
  Tony Koch chief reporter PROMINENT Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has appealed to governments to help break the welfare dependency of indigenous people so they can live more healthy, dignified lives. Speaking in Cairns this week, Mr Pearson said... read more
• Activists lobby black Olympics boycott
  01.12.1998
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP ABORIGINAL activist Murrandoo Yanner will travel to Africa next year where he will encourage black nations to boycott the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Mr Yanner yesterday said he had been invited to South Africa by Samora... read more
• Our black mark of shame
  31.10.1998
  THIS is a plea to the women of Australia. The appeal is to women because men, particularly politicians and those in authority, have shown little will or desire to take up the challenge. The plea is on behalf of the women and children who live on the... read more
• Violence bill to hit $60m
  12.04.1998
  QUEENSLAND taxpayers face compensation bills estimated at more than $60 million over the next few years to recompense victims of violence on remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Violence among ATSI people is so endemic that lawyers... read more
• Forget the past, stop today's genocide
  21.03.1998
  AN Australian television organisation had the foresight and courage to properly research and produce a documentary on living conditions on Aboriginal communities, the condemnation would reverberate around the globe. As much as we are shocked by footage... read more
• NATION'S SHAME WON'T GO AWAY
  10.07.1995
  A USTRALIA'S greatest shame is that it has taken the Sydney 2000 Olympics and possible international embarrassment at that event for our "fourth-world'' standard of Aboriginal health care to suddenly become a priority. This is the constituency which... read more