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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.

• Cape despair after boy, 12, hangs himself
  23.01.2004
  A 12-YEAR-old Aboriginal boy at Kowanyama community on Cape York hanged himself in a cupboard on Wednesday -- a week after Family Services officials negotiated for him and his two younger sisters to be taken from the abusive house in which they were... read more
• Role is not to question why
  09.08.2003
  The children were hungry and there was no food available in their homes PRIME Minister John Howard's visit to the remote Napranum and Aurukun Aboriginal communities on Cape York last week was an important statement to the nation that the horrific... read more
• Hurry up and do nothing
  09.08.2003
  A lot of noise was made, but was anything actually done to make life better for this little girl, and others in her community? Tony Koch reports Without attention to special needs, all the best intentions could amount to nothing THE scant level of care... read more
• Police not told of sex abuse in communities
  06.08.2003
  CHILDREN on remote Aboriginal communities suffer continuing serious sexual abuse because doctors' reports of the incidents given to the Queensland Families Department are not passed on to police for investigation. Extensive details of the failure of... read more
• Chaos as Cape doctor quits in frustration
  16.07.2003
  HEALTH care in remote Cape York is in turmoil with the resignation of a key doctor and senior nursing staff about to quit. One of only two doctors who take turns to live at the remote Kowanyama Aboriginal community on Cape York is leaving today after... read more
• THE BABY OR THE BOTTLE
  21.12.2002
  From the moment they are conceived, some Queensland children don't stand a chance. As Tony Koch reports, alcohol and babies are a tragic mixture THEY are the children who live with rejection. They are slower to react to everyday occurrences. At school... read more
• Community doctor bulk-bills in smiles
  21.12.2002
  KOWANYAMA is a dry, dusty community on western Cape York. But to Dr Lara Wieland it's the home and the people she has grown to love in her 30 months' stay. It is easy to see why she feels that way. As she walks the streets there is not one person who... read more