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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.

• Positive not punitive the best approach
  03.10.2009
  By: CHRIS SARRA There are better, cheaper ways of encouraging Aboriginal children to attend school than the FRC's much-trumpeted program WHILE the Family Responsibilities Commission in Queensland may claim it is successful in getting... read more
• Disagreement on best way to cut truancy
  01.10.2009
  Education expert Chris Sarra has strongly criticised Noel Pearson's Cape York welfare measures, suggesting his own strategies are more effective in cutting truancy. Dr Sarra, who is executive director of the Stronger Smarter Institute dealing with... read more
• Threatened parents understand education
  30.09.2009
  IN 1991 the then Queensland premier, Wayne Goss, made a surprise visit to Aurukun State School on western Cape York. Some 240 children were enrolled at the school, but on that day there were about 20 teachers -- and they almost outnumbered the... read more
• Torres Strait deaths `totally avoidable'
  25.09.2009
  By: Tony Koch CRUCIAL evidence on the 2005 sinking of the immigration vessel Malu Sara in the Torres Strait, with the loss of all five on board, has forced the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to acknowledge a failure by rescue authorities... read more
• Communities trial works, despite hiccups
  19.09.2009
  A YEAR ago, when cutting welfare to parents who don't send their children to school was introduced on a trial basis in four Aboriginal communities in Cape York, alarm was raised that the measure was racist and unenforceable. There have been... read more
• Pearson slams victimhood
  10.09.2009
  By: Tony Koch THE opportunity to share in society's gifts through education and employment was being denied to indigenous youth because they were constantly told they were ``victims who had an entitlement to continued welfare... read more
• Family denied aid after boat tragedy
  03.09.2009
  By: Tony Koch A TORRES Strait Islander who has to look after his four grandchildren because their mother died when an Immigration Department vessel sank in 2005 has been refused government financial help because his request is outside the... read more