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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1969

74 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

New swing to police violence in Nsw, Sa

Tribune · Wednesday 16 April 1969 · page 1

IT is widely believed that orders for police to use new get-tough tactics with anti-conscription demonstrators in Sydney last Friday came directly from Premier Robin ("Drive over the bastards") Askin. Demonstrators -- most of them students -- were manhandled, punched and even…

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Unions tell NSW Premier: "Stop police violence!"

Tribune · Wednesday 23 April 1969 · page 3

SYDNEY: Officials of more than 20 Sydney trade unions last week initiated signing of a statement to NSW Premier Askin demanding action to halt police violence against peaceful demonstrators. The statement was prepared following an unsuccessful…

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Police to Silence Noisy Exhausts

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 6 May 1969 · page 1

Police action against motorists driving cars with noisy exhausts is to be stepped up. This action follows complaints to the Member for Merrylands. Mr. L. J. Ferguson…

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ALP men charged

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1969 · page 12

Wollongong. -- Two prominent local Labor Party officials have been charged under the Commonwealth Crimes Act following an anti-conscription sit-in at the Wollongong office of the Department of Labor and National Service last Thursday…

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Fast becoming a police state

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1969 · page 11

THE INTERVENTION in South Vietnam by America and its allies is a logical consequence and reflection of its…

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Police thugs and rightist vigilante squads to attack student protests

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1969 · page 3

THE ABOVE quotation (dated April 29 of this year) is from one of the rightwing extremist National Civic Council sheets that have suddenly proliferated through Australian universities in the past two months, under misnomers like "Radical" and "Democrat". In this case, it is "Radical", circulated in Melbourne University. More than likely the report…

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Police act daily to move Margaret

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 12

BRISBANE: Described by Michael Willesee on the ABC's Four Corners program last Saturday night as almost unbelievable," the scandalous government persecution of Queensland schoolgirl Margaret Bailey continues…

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Plain Australian 'Nervous grins' and the police

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 2

SENIOR police officers at last Friday's Sydney demonstration by striking unionists happily…

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Police snoopers chased off big building job

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 12

BRISBANE: Two 'special branch' policemen and a carload of uniformed police hurriedly left a big…

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Five sentenced to death in Iraq

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1969 · page 3

Damascus. Iraq's Revolutionary Court last week sentenced five persons to death after finding them guilty of…

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Police protect synagogues

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1969 · page 4

New York: New York's Mayor, John V. Lindsay at a meeting last week with 50 black and white Christian…

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Court rejects boil

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1969 · page 4

Geneva: An application for bail by three Arabs held for questioning respecting the attack on an Israeli airliner in Zurich airport in February was rejected by a Zurich Court recently…

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Bonn to court Arab countries

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1969 · page 4

BONN — The Federal German Government intend to “do everything possible to improve relations with the…

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Louis Xiv Et La Reforme De La Police De Paris

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 30 May 1969 · page 8

A cette époque, au numéro 54 du quai des Orfèvres, habitait dans un hôtel le plus hideux ménage d'Harpagons…

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March by 300 Backs Charged Alp Men

Tribune · Wednesday 4 June 1969 · page 12

WOLLONGONG: About 300 people demonstrated outside the Court House last Wednesday in support of five local men facing charges inside arising out of an anti-conscription sitdown demonstration in the city on May 8…

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Conservative named head Supreme Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1969 · page 10

WASHINGTON: President Nixon has set out a formula for selecting Supreme Court Justices which ruled out naming personal or political friends or considering a man's race or religion…

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Danes Hold 2 Arabs, Swede for Plot to Murder B-g

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1969 · page 1

COPENHAGEN: The Danish high court last week ruled that a Jordanian girl and an Iraqi, suspected of plotting to assassinate former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in South America, should remain in custody here. Mr. Ben-Gurion is 83. The Arabs, charged with conspiring to commit murder,…

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4 Russians Sentenced

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1969 · page 6

LONDON: Four Russians have been found guilty by a Soviet court of taking part in wartime massacres of “Soviet…

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Police Club May Miss

The Biz · Thursday 19 June 1969 · page 2

A number of Fairfield youths have been chosen to compete in the West Australian boxing championships later this year. The boys ore all members of Fairfield Police Boys' Club and at least…

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Court Slaps Fine on Meatmen

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1969 · page 3

SYDNEY: In the first Arbitration "contempt" case since the nation-wide strike wave in May against the…

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