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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.

• Cost of cleaning out the Moonlight State
  12.05.2007
  By: Tony Koch Tony Fitzgerald exposed corruption in Queensland, but it came at a great personal cost. Tony Koch reports IN the mid-1990s, a Queensland minister was discussing a possible appointment to the High Court with a very senior... read more
• Beattie backflip on CCTV for police
  07.02.2007
  PLANS by Queensland police to march on state parliament are on hold after Premier Peter Beattie yesterday acceded to demands for surveillance cameras in watch-houses at Aboriginal communities. Mr Beattie met with union officials, Police Commissioner Bob... read more
• Hurley charged with manslaughter
  06.02.2007
  MANSLAUGHTER and assault charges were yesterday laid against the policeman at the centre of the Palm Island death-in-custody case as the split between the Queensland police union and Peter Beattie deepened. In an unprecedented appearance in the Brisbane... read more
• STATE OF THE NATION
  03.02.2007
  Tony Koch IT is curious that 16 years after the comprehensive report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Queensland Police Union suddenly feels compelled to support it publicly. However, the union's rush of compassion for... read more
• Police to march for Palm officer
  01.02.2007
  QUEENSLAND'S police union yesterday brushed aside an olive branch from Premier Peter Beattie, vowing to march on state parliament over the charging of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley with the manslaughter of Palm Islander Mulrunji Doomadgee. Union... read more
• Top cop steps in on Palm strike
  29.01.2007
  QUEENSLAND'S police commissioner, Bob Atkinson, has moved to head off strike action by the militant police union over the recommendation that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley be charged with manslaughter over the death in custody of Mulrunji... read more
• Palm cop to face charges
  27.01.2007
  THE policeman at the centre of the Palm Island death in custody case will face a manslaughter trial after an unprecedented review by a former NSW chief justice contradicted the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions' decision not to lay... read more