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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1969

74 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4

Unions quick to hit TAA court pressure

Tribune · Wednesday 22 January 1969 · page 1

SYDNEY: Trade unionists last week joined to oppose antistrike summonses which brough 82 individual unionists -- as well as their union -- under threat of penalty. They saw the summonses…

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Israel's Non-jewish Citizens Arab Leader to Court Bench

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 January 1969 · page 4

A prominent Arab lawyer from Nazareth, Mr. Mohammed Nimr al-Hawari, who before the establishment of…

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Une "cellule de lutte contre le bruit" va etre creee par le prefet de police

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 24 January 1969 · page 2

ORGANISEE du 18 au 30 novembre par la préfecture de police aveo la participation de la préfecture de Prévention routiére. la quinzaine de lutte…

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Brisbane police buzz radical youth club 'Let's Get Foco' Drive

Tribune · Wednesday 29 January 1969 · page 1

"THE powers-that-be have obviously enlisted the support of Brisbane police in their 'Let's get FOCO' campaign," Mr. Bob Daley, one of the Brisbane radical youth group's organisers said recently. Mitch Thompson, another FOCO organiser, believes that "police intimidation will increase until other…

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Police boys' club help sought by staff

The Biz · Thursday 13 February 1969 · page 1

With 7000 members there is always plenty of action at the Fairfield and Districts Police Citizen Boys' Club. In the four and a half years since it opened, the club has jumped from a membership of 1000 to its present figure and is still growing…

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Police Charged

Tribune · Wednesday 19 February 1969 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Assault charges against two policemen have been filed by young anti-war demonstrator Mr. Harry van Moorst. They come at a time of…

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Police search

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 4 March 1969 · page 2

Merrylands detectives are still looking for a man they believe to be the third member of a…

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Court Full for Equal Pay Case Hearing

Tribune · Wednesday 5 March 1969 · page 10

MELBOURNE: The Commonwealth Arbitration Court room filled well ahead of time for the opening of the Equal Pay case on Tuesday of last week. Men and women attended in about equal numbers…

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Sydney Jurists Honour Israeli High Court Judge

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 March 1969 · page 3

Highly esteemed representatives of the Australian Federal and State Benches, Jewish jurists…

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David: Geoff, what was gaol like? Geoff: Well, dull and possibly dangerous

Tharunka · Tuesday 11 March 1969 · page 9

Geoff Mullen is a third year Arts student at this University, He is a non-complier and recently served 28 days of a 29 day sentence at Long Bay Gaol for refusing to attend medical examinations for National Service, Geoff has already disobeyed a call up notice for December 2, 1968 and because of this faces a further two…

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Savage anti-draft penalties: police brutality alleged

Tribune · Wednesday 19 March 1969 · page 3

SAVAGE penalties imposed by State and Commonwealth authorities last week on young anti-conscription activists in Victoria and New South Wales have touched off new levels of protest among students, trade unionists and other sections…

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Strikes for Union Rights in Two States Workers buck Court crack-downs

Tribune · Wednesday 19 March 1969 · page 1

THOUSANDS of Sydney boilermakers, blacksmiths and Melbourne waterside workers last week took strike action against actual and threatened court penalties on union officials defending trade union rights and principles. In MELBOURNE, all waterside workers stopped work in protest against a savage…

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Ustashi hand in double murder?

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1969 · page 3

MELBOURNE: The sensational double murder in South Caulfield of a naturalised migrant and his friend is widely believed in the Yugoslav community to be the work of the Ustashi Croatian Croatian nazi [?]sation Daily press reports say the police are "baffled" and the crime appears to be…

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Police arrest Tas. leafleters

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1969 · page 12

HOBART: Six students have been arrested and the names of more than 20 other people -- some non-students -- have been taken by Commonwealth Police here for alleged, breaches cf the Crimes Act by handing out leaflets opposing National…

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Tram union throws down gauntlet to Court over fines

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1969 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Refusal of the Tramway Employees' Association to pay fines imposed by the Industrial Court is building up a major challenge to the penal powers laws. The union's Victorian…

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Will a Victorian policeman write on fur stealing in Nsw? the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Nos. 1 to 4 1968

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1969 · page 6

"THE Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology published its first four numbers in 1968…

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Jews or Romans: an Easter probe into a 2000-year-old murder

Tribune · Wednesday 2 April 1969 · page 7

WHO killed Christ, and why? For nearly two thousand years the most common answer has…

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Farakos Soon for Military Court

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1969 · page 9

GRIGORIS FARAKOS, a leader of the banned Greek Communist Party, and 30 other alleged members of the party, are expected to face trial before a special military court in Athens soon…

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Does the Court of Pains arbitrate -- or discriminate?

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1969 · page 10

WHEN IT COMES to Commonwealth Arbitration Act penalties, it's a whole lot cheaper to be an employer and underpay workers or otherwise flout the award than it is to be a union and go on strike for workers' demands. For instance, as we…

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Editorial Comment Police and VIOLENCE

Tharunka · Tuesday 15 April 1969 · page 4

After last Friday’s demonstration a senior police officer, in the presence of witnesses, revealed to a highly reliable “Tharunka” source that orders were given…

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