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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.

• HOMELESS
  15.08.2009
  By: NATASHA ROBINSON, TONY KOCH, MICHAEL OWEN HOUSING WAS MEANT TO BE THE PRACTICAL CORE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INDIGENOUS TERRITORIANS. NATASHA ROBINSON, TONY KOCH AND MICHAEL OWEN... read more
• After a life of loss, a housing legacy of shame
  15.08.2009
  By: TONY KOCH A TINY, black-skinned woman on remote Groote Eylandt, off east Arnhem Land, her shoulders slumped from decades of pain and unimaginable hurt, looks shyly down as she speaks in a whisper of ``blame and shame''. Yet the battle... read more
• Some bitter, others sweet
  01.01.2009
  IN the first three Northern Territory communities to receive new houses and refurbishments under the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program, a mixture of gratitude and resentment greeted the release of yesterday's review... read more
• HOW THE BIG HOUSE IS RITE OF PASSAGE
  13.02.1999
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP Proud of being in jail: how the Big House is a rite of passage Tony Koch IMAGINE for a moment your life was so desperately hopeless that a more pleasant alternative was to go to jail. That is an improbable fact of... read more
• Doom City life barbaric
  05.12.1998
  Doom City life barbaric By: KOCH A Source: QNP The most appalling conditions being experienced by any black people THE sons of murdered South African freedom fighter Steve Biko yesterday described the living conditions of Aborigines in... read more
• Doomadgee cesspools condemned
  05.12.1998
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP DOOMADGEE and similar Aboriginal communities are ``cesspools'' that should be done away with, according to Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner. He said this would allow people to live on out-stations away from... read more
• Yanner learning the lessons of leadership
  05.12.1998
  By: KOCH A Source: QNP FEISTY Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner has probably learnt more about the role of a spokesman for his people in the past fortnight than in the totality of his tender years in public life. Yanner, chairman of the... read more