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Courts & crime, 1969

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

Police "bloody mad" at factory

Tribune · Wednesday 22 October 1969 · page 10

MELBOURNE: Workers at the EMAIL factory at Notting Hill were held captive, bustled, and searched by five carloads of police for more than half an hour on Monday of last week. They staged a four-hour stoppage in protest the next day. "We thought the police had gone bloody mad," one worker…

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Student Buzzed Over Police Agent News Round-up

Tribune · Wednesday 22 October 1969 · page 12

SYDNEY: The Macquarie University paper, Arena, has alleged that a student of the university was visited by Commonwealth Police at midnight earlier this month and asked to hand over a roll of film…

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'Fascist' court treatment of Black Panther International Round-up

Tribune · Wednesday 12 November 1969 · page 9

NEW YORK: Henry Winston, national chairman of the Communist Party of the USA, has branded the actions of Judge Julius J. Hoffman in the case of the Chicago Eight as "fascist-like"…

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Big stops in Sydney over pay case: demo outside Court

Tribune · Wednesday 12 November 1969 · page 10

SYDNEY: Five hundred workers' delegates from city building, waterfront and metal jobs last Wednesday marched through city streets and assembled at Temple Court to demonstrate their militant impatience outside the Sydney hearing on the national wage case…

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Attackers of plane charged with murder

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 November 1969 · page 5

GENEVA — The three Arabs (including a woman) accused of attacking an El Al airliner at Zurich’s Kloten…

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4 Years for Seale in Kangaroo Court

Tribune · Wednesday 19 November 1969 · page 9

CHICAGO: Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was sentenced to four years imprisonment early this month on 16 charges of "contempt of court" because of the various protests he made during his trial here on rioting conspiracy charges…

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Five Jasa Stars Off Court in B'ball Final

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 November 1969 · page 26

Five JASA players were "fouled off" the court in the B grade basketball final against NSW University last week. JASA had to complete the…

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Parliamentarians facing gaol risk

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 1

Two Members of Parliament, whose electorates cover the Merrylands area, may go to gaol for supporting an anti-conscription movement. They are State Member for Merrylands, Mr. L. J…

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The New Nazis It's Murder All the Time

Tribune · Wednesday 26 November 1969 · page 1

AS the world reacted with horror last week to allegations of massacre by US forces of hundreds of unarmed villagers in South Vietnam, National Liberation Front spokesmen in Paris pointed out that…

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Police disperse hotheads

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 December 1969 · page 9

ACRE: Some 500 Jewish residents, mostly young people, were stopped by police when they tried to force their way…

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Police watch at Guildford

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 December 1969 · page 2

Traffic police will pay special attention to vehicles speeding in Military Road, Guildford, in the area where it crosses the pipeline. The action follows rep…

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Police on special Christmas alert

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 December 1969 · page 5

Traffic police with breathanalyser kits will be on special alert in Holroyd during the Christmas-New Year period. This warning was issued to district motorists…

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Theft almost stops 'Times'

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 December 1969 · page 20

This week's edition of the "Australian Jewish Times" was produced under extreme difficulties,…

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Police ignored bombing tip-off

Tribune · Wednesday 17 December 1969 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A man who tried the warn Commonwealth authorities about the bomb outrage at the Yugoslav Embassy in Canberra on November 29 was brushed off by both the Commonwealth police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Naturalised Australian…

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