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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.

• Palm Island witnesses back mirror evidence
  10.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH TWO witnesses familiar with the Palm Island police lock-up, where Mulrunji Doomadgee died, yesterday supported evidence that the scene of his alleged assault had been visible through a mirror. Appearing at a new inquest into... read more
• Witness: I could see Doomadgee's `scuffle'
  09.03.2010
  By: Tony Koch THE key civilian witness to the 2004 watchhouse death of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee has changed his story, telling a fresh inquest he had a clear view of the incident rather than one obscured by a filing cabinet. Roy... read more
• Fresh light on custody death
  09.03.2010
  By: TONY KOCH The saga of Mulrunji Doomadgee's death in a Palm Island cell has reached its last chapter AFTER five years of legal action following the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee in a police cell on Palm Island, the sensational new testimony... read more
• Second Doomadgee inquest begins
  08.03.2010
  By: Tony Koch TODAY on Palm Island coroner Brian Hine begins hearing evidence in an attempt to resolve one of the most controversial black deaths in custody -- that of Mulrunji Doomadgee. On November 19, 2004, Doomadgee, a fit, slim 36-year... read more
• `Token fines' only for sly-grogging
  09.02.2010
  By: Tony Koch POLICE in north Queensland are frustrated by what they say are token fines handed to people caught sly-grogging or illegally in possession of alcohol in Aboriginal communities where bans exist. The Queensland government... read more
• Injury puts focus on police duty of care
  02.01.2010
  By: Tony Koch CIVIL courts in Queensland appear destined to decide parameters for the duty of care owed by government to frontline emergency personnel injured in the line of duty following action taken by former Toowoomba police officer Sue... read more
• The road to despair
  30.07.2009
  By: Tony Koch Twenty years after his report on police corruption, a distinguished but disillusioned lawyer is still paying the price, writes Tony Koch EYEBROWS were raised yesterday as news filtered out in The Australian and on the... read more