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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.

  • Corruption fighter sees sordid history repeated
    29.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch RETIRED Queensland MPs and Labor mates are brokering deals between business and the Bligh cabinet in a system where ``patronage is dispensed and access to government can be purchased'', corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald QC said... read more
  • The secret police
    25.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch Queensland will not be free of police impropriety until Anna Bligh takes a stand, writes Tony Koch ASTOUNDING revelations this week by Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission that 25 police officers were involved in... read more
  • Judge calls for ban on cops investigating cops
    24.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch, Michael McKenna FORMER Queensland corruption commissioner Bill Carter QC yesterday demanded an end to the practice of ``cops investigating cops'' for misconduct, saying this must be done by investigators independent of the... read more
  • Officer `bashed' tourists
    06.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch A FORMER Queensland police officer has been committed for trial on six charges of assaulting three tourists at Airlie Beach in Queensland, one of whom he allegedly told, ``this is my town''. Closed-circuit television footage... read more
  • Royal commission the only route to the truth
    19.12.2008
    COMMENT QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh should now establish a royal commission to inquire into the death in police custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee. Judge Robert Pack's ruling yesterday that coroner Christine Clements' findings, that Senior Sergeant... read more
  • Boat builder blamed for deaths - Malu Sara
    28.06.2008
    MANSLAUGHTER charges have been recommended against the designer and builder of an Immigration Department patrol boat that sank in the Torres Strait in October 2005 with the loss of all five people on board. Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes is expected... read more
  • Palm officer paid triple items' value
    29.05.2008
    By: Sean Parnell, FOI editor THE controversial Queensland policeman given a $100,000 government payment to replace property he claimed to have lost in the Palm Island riots listed its value with insurers at just $35,000. It was unclear last night... read more
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