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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.

• Violent silence
  23.11.1999
  By: Tony Koch The evacuation of health workers from an Aboriginal community is caused by violence which is neither uncommon nor surprising, writes chief reporter Tony Koch. A YEAR ago, two sons of murdered South African freedom fighter... read more
• Look back on anger -Yanner.
  09.10.1999
  By: Tony Koch MURRANDOO Yanner is an irreverent chap, unfettered by pomp or protocol. When I spoke by telephone to him early yesterday, he said the media had been on to him since daybreak, and he'd ``only had time for a dingo's... read more
• Legal win puts indigenous people in the hunt
  08.10.1999
  MURRANDOO Yanner yesterday celebrated the High Court's confirmation of indigenous people's hunting and fishing rights by going out and spearing a young crocodile for dinner. The High Court decision handed down yesterday _ acknowledging hunting,... read more
• Brothers up in arms
  02.10.1999
  TWO thoughts struck me when I met Cape York Land Council chairman, Richard Ahmat, in his Cairns office yesterday. Facially, he was not unlike the Gulf firebrand Murrandoo Yanner and, typical of his indigenous brother, he was angry. It's not a good... read more
• HOW THE BIG HOUSE IS RITE OF PASSAGE
  13.02.1999
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP Proud of being in jail: how the Big House is a rite of passage Tony Koch IMAGINE for a moment your life was so desperately hopeless that a more pleasant alternative was to go to jail. That is an improbable fact of... read more
• Doom City life barbaric
  05.12.1998
  Doom City life barbaric By: KOCH A Source: QNP The most appalling conditions being experienced by any black people THE sons of murdered South African freedom fighter Steve Biko yesterday described the living conditions of Aborigines in... read more
• Doomadgee cesspools condemned
  05.12.1998
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP DOOMADGEE and similar Aboriginal communities are ``cesspools'' that should be done away with, according to Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner. He said this would allow people to live on out-stations away from... read more