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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.

• Pearson's last stand: the rivers run dry
  07.04.2009
  INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has threatened to abandon the campaign against passive welfare, arguing that the Queensland Government's move to lock up vast tracts of Aboriginal land in Cape York would force him ``back to the barricades''. Mr Pearson... read more
• Aboriginal elder held on assault charges
  20.05.2008
  CLASH over tribal boundaries that allegedly ended with Murrandoo Yanner ramming a commonwealth four-wheel drive has landed the Aboriginal firebrand in the Mount Isa watchhouse. Mr Yanner has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle,... read more
• Difficulties of delivering justice
  28.03.2008
  (The actual publication date of this article written by me was in 1999. It is put at the head of this section to demonstrate how nothing has changed....Tony Koch.) IN A judgment awarding compensation to a multiple rape victim on September 1,... read more
• Magistrate learns the rough end of justice
  25.06.2005
  THE jury foreman's reply of ``guilty'' was like a whiplash across her face, but the full realisation of her hopeless predicament was to strike Di Fingleton through the personal indignity and degradation that followed. During her eight years on the... read more
• Judge angers Fingleton team
  25.06.2005
  QUEENSLAND'S Chief Justice, four senior judges, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Solicitor-General, several defence barristers and the Beattie Government have all been criticised in the wake of the High Court's exoneration of former chief... read more
• Fingleton: my brush with rough justice
  25.06.2005
  THE jury foreman's reply of ``guilty'' was like a whiplash across her face, but the full realisation of her hopeless predicament was to strike Di Fingleton through the personal indignity and degradation that followed. During her eight years on the... read more
• Child caged for 500km drive to jail
  04.05.2004
  AN 11-year-old Aboriginal boy was arrested, held in custody and transported 500km in a police utility cage. His crime? Graffiti: He wrote his own name in spray paint on a footpath and road in the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Normanton last month. The... read more