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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.

• Health minister knew of nurse's island rape
  18.03.2008
  QUEENSLAND Health Minister Stephen Robertson yesterday admitted he was told of the alleged rape of a nurse on Mabuiag Island in the Torres Strait two days after it occurred but took no action until details of the attack were revealed in The Australian... read more
• Homes built on despair
  05.01.2008
  By: NOEL PEARSON AS Australians have confronted the depth of the social and cultural breakdown in remote indigenous communities, there has been a growing discussion around their very viability, and whether these communities should continue to... read more
• Community breakdown
  29.12.2007
  Tony Koch calls for real responses to real problems and for fellow Australians to face up to the reasons for dysfunction in some Aboriginal communities A FENCE 2m high with the gate chained and padlocked symbolises what is wrong with remote... read more
• Closing the gap
  22.12.2007
  Now the apology has been made the hard work continues to bridge the wide divide between living and education standards in white and black Australia, writes Tony Koch FOR Aboriginal academic Jacki Huggins who recently retired as the co-chair of... read more
• Family's warnings ignored
  13.12.2007
  THE family of a 10-year-old gang-rape victim last night revealed they had warned child safety authorities she would be attacked if taken out of a Cairns foster home and returned to their remote Aboriginal community of Aurukun. Amid a continuing public... read more
• Teachers retreat to cells in Aurukun
  21.10.2007
  NINE terrified school teachers and other public servants slept in a police station for protection, some of them in cells, while up to 200 members of two warring families in the Aurukun Aboriginal community in Cape York brawled and rioted throughout... read more
• Teenagers bashed into having `bonus babies'
  13.10.2007
  TEENAGE Aboriginal girls in north Queensland who use birth control are being bashed by their partners because they want the girls to get pregnant so they can grab the $4000 commonwealth baby bonus cheque. Lara Wieland, who runs a health clinic on the... read more