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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1964

10 stories in Sydney's papers

Accident highlights need for new pool

Tribune · Wednesday 15 January 1964 · page 8

ADELAIDE: A youth was knocked unconscious and nearly drowned at the Olympic Pool recently when a diver…

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Sabre rattling Barwick's "Collision" threat to Indonesians

Tribune · Wednesday 29 January 1964 · page 4

The startling exposure in London this week of the conflict between Britain and the US over Malaysia has gravely embarrassed the Menzies Government, which has been trying to tag along with both of its now, quarrelling patrons…

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Navy collision; Compo demand

Tribune · Wednesday 19 February 1964 · page 11

SYDNEY: A mass meeting of Garden Island naval dockyard workers instructed all union delegates to ask the ACTU, through their federal…

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Industrial accident rate rises

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1964 · page 8

ADELAIDE: Industrial accidents have risen to an alarming degree in South Australia…

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Dangerous Commonwealth clown Menzies' Collision Course Shames Australia Again

Tribune · Wednesday 22 July 1964 · page 3

An admission that the majority of Commonwealth Prime Ministers had rejected his cold-war propaganda against both China and Indonesia was an important feature of Prime Minister Menzies' press conference on Sunday…

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Girls injured Trainees want compensation

Tribune · Wednesday 5 August 1964 · page 12

NEWCASTLE: About 450 trainee teachers from the Newcastle Teachers' College demonstrated in the city last Monday in a demand for payment of workers' compensation…

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Following in Footsteps Boy Saves Girl From Drowning

The Biz · Wednesday 9 September 1964 · page 3

A 12-year-old Guildford schoolboy jumped into a Doonside waterhole to save a young girl from drowning. The boy, Claude Passlow (12). of…

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Boaten's warning of war by accident

Tribune · Wednesday 11 November 1964 · page 5

SYDNEY: A warning against complacency arising through a nuclear stalemate was given by Mr. Frank Boaten at a typical suburban meeting held in connection with the Congress for Internationa…

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Serious Accident Predicted at Crossing

The Biz · Wednesday 25 November 1964 · page 1

A serious motor accident will occur at the North Street railway level crossing, despite new boom gates, if motorists do not take care, it was said this week…

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Road accident tally

The Biz · Wednesday 2 December 1964 · page 2

parts of John Street and Cabramatta Road West. However, the Board has been requested not to do…

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