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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.

• Pearson's last stand: the rivers run dry
  07.04.2009
  INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has threatened to abandon the campaign against passive welfare, arguing that the Queensland Government's move to lock up vast tracts of Aboriginal land in Cape York would force him ``back to the barricades''. Mr Pearson... read more
• Cape native title `crusade' won
  08.06.2007
  THE 17-year native title fight for land in Cape York was finally won yesterday, prompting Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson to declare indigenous welfare and social reform the new battleground. Mr Pearson was speaking as the Queensland Government tabled... read more
• Rough passage
  03.04.2007
  Queensland's white environmental establishment has sidelined traditional owners in the quest to protect the wild rivers of Cape York, writes Tony Koch A FUNCTION at Brisbane's plush Stamford Heritage Plaza hotel staged last Friday night by the... read more
• Protesters to swoop on Premier over river bill
  08.02.2007
  HOSTILE reception awaits Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at the cabinet meeting in Atherton, near Cairns, this weekend, as Aboriginal leaders, cattlemen and councillors gather to protest at laws locking up Cape York's river systems from development. A... read more
• Controls on wild rivers
  25.07.2006
  THE Queensland Government has been forced to wind back an election promise to protect 18 pristine rivers from development. A month after a moratorium was imposed on the wild rivers legislation, cabinet has agreed to apply modified controls to the... read more
• Freeze on wild rivers protection bill
  16.06.2006
  FREEZE on plans to rule Cape York's ``wild rivers'' out of bounds for all forms of development has been welcomed by Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson. Two weeks ago, Mr Pearson's Cape York Land Council joined pastoralists on the Cape in opposing the... read more
• Graziers, Aborigines unite to fight development ban
  05.06.2006
  GRAZIERS and Aboriginal leaders have joined forces against moves by the Beattie Government to ban development on remote river systems. At the old Musgrave telegraph station in central Cape York at the weekend, pastoralists and Aboriginal groups resolved... read more