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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.

• Grandad falsely accused of rape and incest
  15.09.2010
  By: TONY KOCH, AMANDA GEARING THE Queensland Department of Child Safety has refused for 18 months to correct a file that falsely accused a man from Toowoomba of being a rapist who was jailed for fathering his own grandchild. The 64-year-old man... read more
• Giving volume to the voiceless
  03.09.2010
  COMMENT. By: Tony Koch A DECADE ago, Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson sent shockwaves through indigenous and non-indigenous Australia when he boldly declared that welfare dependency was the ``poison'' killing his people. But he did not stop... read more
• Remote communities thriving in new `dry'
  03.09.2010
  By: Tony Koch MERVINA Henry is the shy face of change in Queensland's remote indigenous communities, where alcohol consumption has been curtailed and children are staying in school. Five years after alcohol restrictions were imposed on the... read more
• Solution is simple: let people decide
  25.08.2010
  By: TONY KOCH THE advice from one of the country's most respected legal practitioners to the Governor-General on how to settle the current political crisis is simple: ``Let the people decide.'' Quentin Bryce could use elements of the... read more
• Katter wants to deal the cards for Australia
  23.08.2010
  By: Tony Koch, Sarah Elks KENNEDY WHILE Australia's political situation teetered precariously yesterday afternoon, north Queensland independent Bob Katter spent much of the afternoon in the ``sniper's nest'' with his grandchildren at... read more
• Callous treatment of sex-assault victim
  18.08.2010
  COMMENT. By: Tony Koch IN February 2008, an experienced 28-year-old remote area nurse from Sydney was sent to Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait. There is no police officer or doctor on the island. She was on her own. On arrival, she... read more
• Ex-policeman pleads guilty to rough justice
  17.08.2010
  By: Tony Koch A FORMER Queensland police officer who chose to dispense his own brand of justice for minor offences yesterday pleaded guilty to three of the most brutal assaults on prisoners witnessed in recent years, with the violence... read more