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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.

• Urgent alcohol inquiry demand
  02.12.1999
  THE roles and responsibilities of government agencies, Aboriginal organisations and individuals should be clearly spelt out in a memorandum of understanding, the women's task force has recommended. The report reserves its strongest language for issues... read more
• Ruthless' accountant jailed for 5-year fraud
  17.11.1999
  AN accountant who ``ruthlessly'' defrauded friends and clients of $2.6 million was jailed for the maximum 10 years yesterday. The Brisbane District Court heard Nicholas Webster Ripper used the money to help fund an ``exorbitant and lavish... read more
• Hands-on vow by Beattie
  01.11.1999
  PREMIER Peter Beattie yesterday promised Aboriginal and Islander people that he would personally take charge of a radical reform programme which aims to rescue them from welfare dependency and hopelessness. Mr Beattie spent Saturday afternoon with more... read more
• Time Robinson cleared his name
  04.07.1998
  FEDERAL Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron this week issued a clear warning to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to be accountable for taxpayers' funds . . . and be transparently so. Two issues of conflict arose, each with a... read more
• ATSIC's domestic violence shame
  06.09.1997
  ATSIC's refusal to fund a women's legal service to fight domestic violence in indigenous communities is to its eternal shame. It begs the question: why? FOR two years, a group of committed Aboriginal women in south Queensland have fought tooth and... read more
• Aboriginal men hold key to fate
  31.05.1997
  THE time has come for Australia's Aboriginal community to answer Pauline Hanson and other critics with action and not words or demands for further apologies or declarations of shame. At this week's reconciliation conference in Melbourne, leaders such... read more
• ABOLISH ATSIC, ACTIVIST CHALLENGES
  19.11.1996
  ATSIC should be abolished because it is an undemocratic, unrepresentative organisation that with its predecessor, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, had misspent $25 billion, according to prominent activist Gary Foley. He said indigenous people had... read more