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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.

• TINY ATHLETE HAS OLYMPICS IN SIGHTS
  18.11.1996
  By TONY KOCH chief reporter FOR the first 20 years of her life, Nancy Nona's training track was the sandy shores of tiny Badu Island in the Torres Strait. She had never seen running spikes; had never seen a running track that did not have goalposts at... read more
• NATION'S SHAME WON'T GO AWAY
  10.07.1995
  A USTRALIA'S greatest shame is that it has taken the Sydney 2000 Olympics and possible international embarrassment at that event for our "fourth-world'' standard of Aboriginal health care to suddenly become a priority. This is the constituency which... read more
• NIGHTMARE OF GROG, DESPERATION
  08.07.1995
  ABORIGINAL health is the worst of any indigenous population in the Western world. Chief reporter TONY KOCH visited some of Queensland's Aboriginal communities to see the problem first hand. WE had been in Kowanyama four hours. Visually,itis a... read more
• EXPERT SAYS POLICE 'HARASSED US'
  16.02.1993
  LEADING Aboriginal health worker Gracie Smallwood has complained about police harassment at the Hilton Hotel in Brisbane. Yesterday she accused two police of pushing their way into a room where she and three other women were sleeping on Sunday morning _... read more
• ACTIVIST GETS STATE HEALTH JOB
  18.08.1990
  ABORIGINAL activist and health worker Ms Gracelyn Smallwood has been appointed as an adviser to the State Government on Aboriginal health issues. The appointment has won overwhelming support from Aboriginal community leaders. Ms Smallwood, known for... read more