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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.

• Media barred from gang rape case
  22.05.2008
  MOUNT Isa magistrate Howard Osborne yesterday excluded all media from the court where eight Mornington Island men and youths faced charges of gang- raping and seriously assaulting a woman. The three-day committal hearing began yesterday in the... read more
• Top judge urges jail terms for rapists
  15.05.2008
  By Sarah Elks. QUEENSLAND'S Chief Justice told a Brisbane court yesterday that jail or detention for the nine men and boys who raped a 10-year-old girl at Aurukun in 2006 might act as a circuit breaker to stop them reoffending. Chief Justice Paul de... read more
• Rapists of girl, 10, `should be jailed'
  14.05.2008
  By Sarah Elkes. QUEENSLAND'S Solicitor-General has called for jail sentences ranging from one to eight years for nine males who were not sent to prison after they pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old girl at Aurukun, on Cape York, in 2006. The... read more
• Nurse lashes out at rape strike claims
  06.05.2008
  A NURSE allegedly raped on a remote Torres Strait island three months ago has accused bureaucrats of implying she would not have been attacked if she had been more sensitive to indigenous culture. The nurse, who has made her career in remote, indigenous... read more
• Difficulties of delivering justice
  28.03.2008
  (The actual publication date of this article written by me was in 1999. It is put at the head of this section to demonstrate how nothing has changed....Tony Koch.) IN A judgment awarding compensation to a multiple rape victim on September 1,... read more
• Nurses set for island work bans
  26.03.2008
  NURSES at 11 remote islands in the Torres Strait appear certain to withdraw their services after it was established yesterday that the Queensland Government had failed to provide them with a safe work environment. The staff held a teleconference with... read more
• Danger to nurses `ignored'
  24.03.2008
  QUEENSLAND Health knew for more than three years that nurses posted to remote Torres Strait islands were living in unfit accommodation where they were in extreme personal danger. Health Minister Stephen Robertson was forced yesterday to release a... read more