- Tony Fitzgerald -

Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

  • Unfinished tale of two former premiers
    01.08.2009
    By: TONY KOCH QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has spent the past week -- and will spend many more weeks -- rushing about putting out bushfires as her Labor government is enveloped in a smoke haze of corruption allegations. Bligh's problem... read more
  • The road to despair
    30.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch Twenty years after his report on police corruption, a distinguished but disillusioned lawyer is still paying the price, writes Tony Koch EYEBROWS were raised yesterday as news filtered out in The Australian and on the... read more
  • Peter and Joh show too heady a brew
    30.07.2009
    By: Jamie Walker, Additional reporting: Tony Koch, Sean Parnell OF all Peter Beattie's shameless publicity stunts, this one was out of the box, even by his standards. Jaws dropped when Queensland's 44th premier literally wheeled out his... read more
  • Tony Fitzgerald QC says Joh-era lessons forgotten
    29.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch, Sean Parnell QUEENSLAND'S pre-eminent corruption reformer Tony Fitzgerald QC broke two decades of silence to warn last night that the state was sliding back to its ``dark past'', in a speech that savaged deals between... read more
  • Corruption fighter sees sordid history repeated
    29.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch RETIRED Queensland MPs and Labor mates are brokering deals between business and the Bligh cabinet in a system where ``patronage is dispensed and access to government can be purchased'', corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald QC said... read more
  • Teacher rescued baby dying after grog party
    25.08.2007
    By: Tony Koch IT was nine in the morning when the teacher set out by car to round up the usual suspects, children hopeful of spending their day playing in the dust of their Cape York community rather than endure hours confined to a... read more
  • Pussycats in jackboots totally bereft of class
    22.06.2007
    By: TONY KOCH COMMENT THE recalcitrant Queensland Police Union is so predictable. It was a surprising relief to all onlookers at the Hurley manslaughter trial in Townsville that, following the jury returning with a verdict of not guilty,... read more
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