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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.

• 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
• Judge sees path to dry lives without crime
  01.09.2009
  By: TONY KOCH CONTROLS imposed by government on alcohol consumption in indigenous communities in Queensland have been the single most important reason why crime has decreased markedly and the lives of women and children have improved,... read more
• `Spare us a wailing wall'
  29.08.2009
  By: Tony Koch THE national Aboriginal representative body proposed by Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma would not tackle the real crises in Aboriginal affairs, and would be little more than ``a blackfellows' wailing wall''. Aboriginal... read more
• Anti-drinks man ordered to leave town
  20.08.2009
  By: Tony Koch BEING partner to the local mayor's cousin wasn't enough to protect Daniel Bracegirdle when he challenged Aurukun Shire Council over calls to reopen its notorious beer canteen: after spending a decade in the remote north... read more
• HOMELESS
  15.08.2009
  By: NATASHA ROBINSON, TONY KOCH, MICHAEL OWEN HOUSING WAS MEANT TO BE THE PRACTICAL CORE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INDIGENOUS TERRITORIANS. NATASHA ROBINSON, TONY KOCH AND MICHAEL OWEN... read more
• Truth-tellers take charge
  01.07.2009
  By: INGA CLENDINNEN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the LiberalConsensus By Peter Sutton Melbourne University Press, 280pp, $34.99 PETER Sutton delivered the public lecture that gives... read more
• Some bitter, others sweet
  01.01.2009
  IN the first three Northern Territory communities to receive new houses and refurbishments under the $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program, a mixture of gratitude and resentment greeted the release of yesterday's review... read more