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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.

• Threatened parents understand education
  30.09.2009
  IN 1991 the then Queensland premier, Wayne Goss, made a surprise visit to Aurukun State School on western Cape York. Some 240 children were enrolled at the school, but on that day there were about 20 teachers -- and they almost outnumbered the... read more
• Communities trial works, despite hiccups
  19.09.2009
  A YEAR ago, when cutting welfare to parents who don't send their children to school was introduced on a trial basis in four Aboriginal communities in Cape York, alarm was raised that the measure was racist and unenforceable. There have been... read more
• Pearson slams victimhood
  10.09.2009
  By: Tony Koch THE opportunity to share in society's gifts through education and employment was being denied to indigenous youth because they were constantly told they were ``victims who had an entitlement to continued welfare... read more
• `Spare us a wailing wall'
  29.08.2009
  By: Tony Koch THE national Aboriginal representative body proposed by Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma would not tackle the real crises in Aboriginal affairs, and would be little more than ``a blackfellows' wailing wall''. Aboriginal... read more
• Truth-tellers take charge
  01.07.2009
  By: INGA CLENDINNEN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the LiberalConsensus By Peter Sutton Melbourne University Press, 280pp, $34.99 PETER Sutton delivered the public lecture that gives... read more
• Passionate Eddie leads by example
  10.06.2009
  By: Tony Koch COMMUNITY-owned enterprises set up on Aboriginal settlements ``don't work'' and the way to achieve economic independence is for indigenous people to fund their own small businesses, according to Cape York passionfruit grower... read more
• Businesses condemn wild rivers plan for Cape
  06.06.2009
  By: Tony Koch NON-indigenous owners of two long-established businesses vital to life in Cape York have joined Aboriginal groups in vocal opposition to the Queensland Government's declaration of wild rivers in their region. The Bligh Government... read more