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Courts & crime, 1970

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End 'Property Theft' Once and for All Letters to the Editor

Tribune · Wednesday 18 March 1970 · page 11

IT WOULD seem that prohibition in America gave rise to organised crime which established more or…

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Police Foiled Students get their way

Tharunka · Thursday 26 March 1970 · page 3

A flag stolen from the South African Embassy in Canberra was publically burned last week in rememberance of the Sharpeville massacre…

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The police: have they been given too much licence to kill? Police Killings in Australia, by R. W. Harding (Penguin Books, Melbourne, 1970). $1.20

Tribune · Wednesday 1 April 1970 · page 6

"POLICE Killings in Australia" by R. W. Harding, senior lecturer in law in the Unversity of West Australia, is…

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“Dial 'M' for Murder”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1970 · page 4

Frederick Knott’s wellknown thriller is very refreshingly adapted to the small stage of the Community…

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Ustashi Shower Murder Leafletse

Tribune · Wednesday 22 April 1970 · page 12

MELBOURNE: A shower of Ustashi (Croatian nazi) leaflets offering rewards for the murder of enemies was thrown…

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New film masterpiece of Lambrakis murder

Tribune · Wednesday 22 April 1970 · page 9

"Z", based on the book of the same title by the brilliant young Greek writer and political exile…

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The Court and the work place were worlds apart

Tribune · Wednesday 22 April 1970 · page 10

FOR THOSE STRIKERS and demonstrators who got a turn in the public gallery during the NSW Industrial Commission hearing of the BHP claim for deregistration of six unions last week, the proceedings may have been a revelation of what happens in an industrial arbitration courtroom. Everything about the…

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Unions turning fire on Court deregistration

Tribune · Wednesday 6 May 1970 · page 10

SYDNEY: Unions increasingly are seeing the power of deregistration as being one of the arbitration penal powers calling for determined challenge. This situation is developing against the background…

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High School Visit for Police Lecture Squad

The Biz · Thursday 7 May 1970 · page 8

BELOW: Constable Ken Moroney shows pictures of mounted police to students at Westfield High School. Const. Moroney was lecturing students…

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Campus Murder Day: New U.s. Civil War?

Tribune · Wednesday 13 May 1970 · page 9

THE MURDER of fear students and the wounding of 11 others by National Guardsmen at Kent State…

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Munich court expels Arabs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 May 1970 · page 26

MUNICH: Three Arabs arrested here on February 17 on board a Yugoslav airliner were each sentenced to three…

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Campus Murder Day Nixon like Uriah Heep

Tribune · Wednesday 20 May 1970 · page 9

NEW YORK: Author Norman Mailer, with a bitter jibe at President Nixon, turned himself in on May 6 to…

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From school, job, churches, court rooms, come warning reports Is This the Backlash Over Moratorium?

Tribune · Wednesday 20 May 1970 · page 1

As soo as the huge Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations were over, there came a series of reports last week suggesting a backlash by some education, court, church and business authorities to victimise individuals active in the anti-war movement. In Sydney, the Education…

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Police get new nerve gas

Tribune · Wednesday 27 May 1970 · page 1

AS public opposition to the U.S.-Australian aggression in Indo-China mounts, police forces throughout the country are actively preparing for the use against demonstrators of new "riot control" equipment, mainly imported…

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Officials Charged

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1970 · page 12

ADELAIDE: Police interference in an industrial dispute, police charges against two union officials and civil action in the Magistrates' Court against these two union officials by the Chamber of Manufactures are reported in the case of the…

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Pentagon names Aust. forces in Viet murder row

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1970 · page 3

Some of the mud being thrown by the Nixon Administration in its current war with the US mass media has come Australia's way with a suggestion by a Pentagon spokesman that Australians were "possibly" to blame for a Vietnam atrocity for…

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Police investigate beatings of Arabs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 June 1970 · page 5

NEW YORK: Arab propagandists in New York are demanding a grand jury investigation of the Jewish Defence League whose members, they allege, broke into the offices of two Arab…

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Police Concerned

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 June 1970 · page 1

We do not keep detailed report on injuries but they are processed by us. "By this I know thai it is…

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Police rough stuff at apartheid protest

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1970 · page 12

SYDNEY: Led by senior officers in constant radio contact with HQ, 200 police endeavoured to intimidate about 150 anti-apartheid protestors when a South African all-white women's basketball team played in…

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Who Called Police to Arrest Young Pregnant Woman?

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1970 · page 12

ADELAIDE: Apparent collusion between a Federal Government department and State police brought revenge on a young pregnant woman for her past actions against authority. Alexandra Fricker last week…

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