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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.

• Officials blamed for search delay
  21.04.2007
  The five who died in the Torres Strait on the patrol boat Malu Sara might have been saved by prompt action, Tony Koch reports SERIOUS negligence by federal officials and subsequent inept handling by Queensland Police cost the lives of five people when... read more
• Skipper's delay request `denied'
  20.04.2007
  THE skipper of the Immigration Department vessel that sank in rough seas in the Torres Strait, killing all five on board, had a request to delay his journey by a day in the hope of better weather rejected because the department would not pay for another... read more
• Safety blasted by Torres skippers
  19.04.2007
  TWO skippers of Immigration Department boats similar to the one that sank in the Torres Strait in 2005, killing five people, told a coronial inquest yesterday the boats collected water when they were used for initial short-trial patrols. Harry David,... read more
• Death boat skipper `lacked training'
  18.04.2007
  THE only training the skipper of the doomed Immigration Department vessel Malu Sara received was from an inexperienced office-bound manager, an inquest into the deaths of five people who died when the boat sank in the Torres Strait has heard. The... read more
• Survivor sightings `ignored' in report
  17.04.2007
  WITNESSES in search aircraft looking for five people missing after the Immigration vessel Malu Sara sank in the Torres Strait reported seeing people alive in the water the day after the tragedy. But the first day of a coroner's hearing into the sinking... read more
• Search for answers in Strait deaths
  16.04.2007
  THE adoptive mother of Immigration Department officer Wilfred Baira, who was one of five Torres Strait Islanders lost when their vessel, the Malu Sara, sank 18 months ago, told yesterday how she ``cried and prayed for'' Wilfred, one of nine children... read more
• Trawling for the truth
  16.04.2007
  An inquest on Thursday Island will try to discover why the Immigration Department allowed the skipper of an unseaworthy boat to make a perilous and tragic voyage, writes Tony Koch ALTHOUGH they occupy dozens of islands, the people who live in the... read more