Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

  • Drugs may have caused death of jockey
    20.10.2010
    By: Tony Koch, Peter Kogoy ONE of the country's leading jockeys, who was found dead in his Brisbane home yesterday morning, had hours earlier collapsed after taking drugs while attending a concert of the American heavy metal band... read more
  • Wild rivers laws sink bauxite mine
    19.10.2010
    By: Tony Koch A BAUXITE mine that would have provided more than 1300 jobs mostly for unemployed indigenous people in Cape York has been scuttled by the Queensland government's controversial wild rivers legislation. Mining company Cape Alumina... read more
  • Footage cops face no new charges
    14.10.2010
    By: Tony Koch, Sarah Elks QUEENSLAND Police say it is unlikely further charges will be laid against officers who watched colleague Benjamin Price assault three people in Airlie Beach. CCTV footage, released by the force on Tuesday, shows police... read more
  • 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
  • KATTER ACCUSED OF `BIG TALK
    26.08.2010
    By: Tony Koch, THE country independents have been divided in their support for Labor since the 2007 poll, parliamentary records show. Rob Oakeshott has been the biggest backer of the ALP, voting with the Rudd and Gillard governments in 55 per... read more
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