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Courts & crime, 1969

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Brisbane Police Swoop More Arrests

Tharunka · Tuesday 1 July 1969 · page 6

In further raids last week Brisbane Vice-Squad detectives swooped on bookshops, art galleries, and other dens of vice around the city. More arrests on obscenity charges were made as lav/breakers everywhere tried to…

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Nationwide Police Violence! Student Scabs Arrest 400

Tharunka · Tuesday 1 July 1969 · page 3

As ‘Police Gazette’ goes to press the battle is still raging over the recent police strike of June 28th. Although the reasons for the strike were well publicised the hysterical reaction of the…

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Police Training College Proposed Bachelor of Civil Defence

Tharunka · Tuesday 1 July 1969 · page 6

In a joint statement by both the Police Commissioner and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, it was announced that Police Training College in Bourke St.,…

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Plain Australian Police State for critics

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1969 · page 2

THE Gorton Government has been challenged over the use of Police State methods…

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Glezos: an Appeal From Gaol to Every Democrat

Tribune · Wednesday 9 July 1969 · page 9

"TWO YEARS have passed, and in our country, in this Greece which is part of the vision and is the spiritual servant of all mankind, where democracy was first born -- as a concept, a word and an action -- a dictatorship has been…

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Women won't win rights through Court's good grace

Tribune · Wednesday 9 July 1969 · page 4

THE COMMONWEALTH Arbitration Commission's decision last month on the Equal Pay…

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Fatah operate export industry-in Nablus gaol

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 July 1969 · page 10

NABLUS: The local central gaol, housing over 400 Fatah convicts, has become an exporter. The inmates are…

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35 Major Accidents at Intersection Delays criticised by police

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 5 August 1969 · page 1

Merrylands Traffic Police ore deeply concerned over the increasing accident rate at…

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Brandishing Tribune in the Court

Tribune · Wednesday 6 August 1969 · page 3

HERE'S a news report from Dave Davies in Melbourne that illustrates exactly what we are saying each week in this column: -- MELBOURNE: Copies of Tribune were brandished by…

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Historical papers on chaplaincy, police

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1969 · page 9

Nearly 70 people attended the half-yearly general meeting of the Australian Jewish Historical Society last week. Held at the Great…

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Rabbi contests Court ruling

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1969 · page 14

Jerusalem: No one born to a non-Jewish mother can become Jewish except by due process of halachic law, according to…

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The court of pains runs its own taxation system

Tribune · Wednesday 13 August 1969 · page 10

IN ONE YEAR, a single union was fined a total of $3600 in penal-clause fines. It was also ordered to pay legal costs incurred by the employers in prosecuting the union, and these costs exceeded $8600, or almost 2½ times the fines. Put another way: the…

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Crime conference in relic gaol

Tribune · Wednesday 27 August 1969 · page 12

PERTH: The fifth annual conference of the Australian Crime Prevention, Correction and After-Care Council was held last week a few miles from one of the most over-crowded and out-dated prison buildings in any State -- Fremantle Gaol. Built by convicts in the last…

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Scene-stealing Culottes the Bride Wore Pants!

Now · Wednesday 27 August 1969 · page 4

Culottes are everywhere! On the beach, at the barbecue, at patties, premieres -- even, would would you believe, at the altar! Undoubtedly, 1969 -- 70 will go down in fashion history as that summer when the Beautiful People started wearing the pants. Hi there!…

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Draft Defiers to Seek Test in Court

Tribune · Wednesday 3 September 1969 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act will take action to force the testing of its…

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Court minimum's pretty close to the poverty line

Tribune · Wednesday 3 September 1969 · page 10

IT IS ONE of the indictments of the arbitration system that it permits a man to be paid, for a full 40-hour working week, a wage that is little above the line of actual poverty. This is one fact that will be in the minds of delegates to…

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Five more resisters facing draft defiance court cases

Tribune · Wednesday 10 September 1969 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Court action against four young men charged with offences against the National Service Act will put more heat into the conscription issue prior to the Federal elections. A Committee for Defiance…

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Letters to the Editor Railmen Must Look Beyond the Court

Tribune · Wednesday 10 September 1969 · page 11

FROM THE judgments handed down by the Arbitration Commission to the railway unions, it is…

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Police review promised by Premier

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 16 September 1969 · page 2

The NSW Premier, Mr. R. W. Askin, has promised to look into the overtime worked by police at Merrylands and Parramarta. Mr. Askin was…

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Strikers From Bhp Marched to Court

Tribune · Wednesday 1 October 1969 · page 10

SYDNEY: The BHP monopoly has just had a new demonstration of the militancy of its steelworkers:…

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