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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.

• 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
• Black nations lobbied for Sydney 2000 boycott
  01.12.1998
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP ABORIGINAL activist Murrandoo Yanner will travel to Africa next year where he will encourage black nations to boycott the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Mr Yanner yesterday said he had been invited to South Africa by... read more
• Barmaid gets $74,000 after assault, robbery
  21.02.1998
  By: OBERHARDT M Source: QNP A FEMALE bar attendant, sexually assaulted during an armed robbery, was awarded the maximum $74,000 in criminal compensation yesterday. The case was watched closely because it again highlighted whether a victim of... read more
• Inmates to pay their victims
  17.02.1998
  KOCH A Source: QNP PRISONERS with money in bank accounts could be forced to pay it to their victims. They also could be made to pay 90 percent of their earnings in prison _ up to $64 a week _ to victims. Brisbane solicitor Tony Bailey, who... read more
• Bash victim's fight for award
  15.11.1997
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP MT Isa Mines electrician Peter Gowlett joined his mates in a drinking session at the popular Irish Club. It was approaching Christmas, 1994 and they were on strike. He is a single man, so he stayed with his mates from... read more
• ATSIC spurns pay-out help for crime victims
  15.11.1997
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP ATSIC has refused a lawyer's application for advance funds to allow them to fight to get compensation for indigenous victims of crime. Brisbane solicitor Tony Bailey was told by an ATSIC official that no funds were... read more
• Victims' aid pledge a hollow farce
  15.11.1997
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP THE QUEENSLAND Government's handling of court-awarded payments to citizens who suffer at the hands of criminals is appalling. In outlining examples which seem incredible in the telling, it is educational to first... read more