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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.

• Open Palm Is finding urged
  07.04.2010
  By: TONY KOCH Most of the circumstantial evidence against Chris Hurley is suspect, it is claimed THE coroner investigating the 2004 death in custody of Palm Island Aborigine Mulrunji Doomadgee is being encouraged to deliver an ``open... read more
• Coroner poised to condemn police union
  06.04.2010
  By: Tony Koch THE Queensland Police Union's attempts to control information and evidence on the 2004 death in custody of Palm Islander Mulrunji Doomadgee is expected to come under attack when state Coroner Brian Hine delivers his findings in... read more
• Wrong to go public with absolution
  25.03.2010
  By: Tony Koch THE news that four prisoners have died in custody in Queensland in the past month -- three in the past week -- is cause for serious investigation and government response. There is no accusation at this stage that any prison... read more
• Police union `usurps' Coroner
  25.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH, ROSANNE BARRETT THE Queensland Police Union has declared its members have no case to answer over the state's fourth death in custody in a month, provoking criticism yesterday that it was usurping the role of the Coroner. QPU... read more
• Sinister role of union revealed, but little else
  13.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH ANALYSIS IT has taken more than five years, thousands of pages of evidence and statements, the expenditure of millions of dollars, in excess of a month of court time, and still there is no answer as to how Mulrunji Doomadgee died... read more
• Family rejects Hurley apology
  13.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH THE policeman who was charged with manslaughter over the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee yesterday apologised to the Aborigine's family. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, appearing at the reconvened inquest... read more
• I fell next to Doomadgee: Hurley
  12.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH THE policeman who arrested Aboriginal cell death victim Mulrunji Doomadgee yesterday told a coronial inquiry he could not explain how the Palm Islander suffered his fatal injuries. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley told Coroner Brian... read more