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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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • The secret police
    25.07.2009
    By: Tony Koch Queensland will not be free of police impropriety until Anna Bligh takes a stand, writes Tony Koch ASTOUNDING revelations this week by Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission that 25 police officers were involved in... read more
  • Wild Rivers deal bypassed Aborigines
    11.04.2009
    THE Queensland Government ignored requests to inform Cape York traditional owners about Wild Rivers legislation that will stop the development of Aboriginal land, despite commitments that it would do so before enacting the law. The traditional owners... read more
  • Pearson quits institute to fight wild rivers battle
    08.04.2009
    By: Tony Koch, Sarah Elks ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has resigned as director of the Cape York Institute -- a think tank that has led the national debate on welfare reform and provided educational programs for young people -- to focus on a... read more
  • Pearson's last stand: the rivers run dry
    07.04.2009
    INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has threatened to abandon the campaign against passive welfare, arguing that the Queensland Government's move to lock up vast tracts of Aboriginal land in Cape York would force him ``back to the barricades''. Mr Pearson... read more
  • Pearson slams Bligh on river `deal'
    04.04.2009
    ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson yesterday accused Queensland Premier Anna Bligh of ``urinating on the rights'' of Aboriginal people and treating them ``much worse than even (Joh) Bjelke-Petersen would have done''. Mr Pearson said the Queensland... read more
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