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Courts & crime, 1970

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Police Search

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 September 1970 · page 1

Police have interviewed a 17-year old girl in connection with the death of Tressa Taggart on Thursday Tressa four months…

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Police onslaught on Sydney march

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 2

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Moratorium again advances Police riots boomerang

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 1

Last Friday's events in Australia's capitals showed that the Vietnam Moratorium movement has grown stronger and matured in serious political struggle, and represents an increasingly serious threat to the aggressive…

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Jailing, Police Batonings on Moratorium Eve

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Coinciding with the campaign to whip up Moratorium-eve hysteria, police and…

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S.a. Govt., Police in Row

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 3

ADELAIDE: Police horses were used to break up the occupation of the North Terrace-King William Street intersection by Moratorium protesters on Friday afternoon. Although police denied using gas, some demonstrators were adamant that they had suffered the effects of tear gas. The police, who had…

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Moratorium in all States Askin-police Plot Backfires

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 3

SYDNEY: The massive police assault on the Sydney Moratorium march, planned at the highest Government level for political purposes, has backfired on its authors and laid the basis for a much more powerful movement against the Vietnam war and for democratic rights at home…

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Tony Vrettos' Own Story Grateful to workers here for action that got him freed from junta's police

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1970 · page 4

MELBOURNE: "The stopping of Greek ships was the turning point for me, and I want to thank…

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Police Assault Charge

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 29 September 1970 · page 1

A police constable has been charged with assault following allegations made by the Member for Reid, Mr. T. Uren…

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Conscript Bucks "Murder Machine" Letters to the Editor

Tribune · Wednesday 30 September 1970 · page 11

My name is John Karajas. I am 23 years old. I have a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors…

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Arrests at Court in Draft Cases

Tribune · Wednesday 30 September 1970 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Warrants for the arrest of two non-compliers with the National Service Act were issued in the City Magistrates' Court last Wednesday, when Ian Turner and Paul Fox did not appear on summonses charging them with failure to obey call-up notice…

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We Pay Through the Nose for Police Repression

Tribune · Wednesday 14 October 1970 · page 4

POLICE brutality towards citizens demonstrating their opposition to the Vietnam war and…

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Canberras take part in Viet air murder

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1970 · page 6

Indiscriminate blasting and burning of Vietnamese peasant families is not attributable only to the United States Air Force. Australian bombers are doing it too. This conclusion must be drawn from a recent article entitled "Fine record of RAAF In Vietnam" by the Air Minister (Senator T. Drake-Brockman), buried in an obscure part of a Sydney Morning Herald aviation supplement (7970). The Minister revealed…

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Police Spying at Uni.: Student Tells

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1970 · page 3

A Queensland University student has exposed a Commonwealth Police attempt to recruit him as a spy to provide information about September Moratorium preparations and other activities on the campus. The student, John Geisel,…

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Adelaide magistrate prejudges findings of Moratorium probe

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1970 · page 2

ADELAIDE: The finding of a Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. L. M. Wright, in a case against a…

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Fred Paterson's Way For the people's causes in court, Parliament & on the picket lines

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1970 · page 8

A QUEENSLAND carter's son, brother of two watersiders, brilliant student, World War I returned…

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Police station for Smithfield?

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 3 November 1970 · page 1

The establishment of a police station at Smithfield has been demanded by Fairfield Council. The move has been sup[?] [?]ted by Fairfield West…

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Teachers defy court by strike, talk of more

Tribune · Wednesday 18 November 1970 · page 10

SYDNEY: Defying an Industrial Commission order against any stop, some 11,000 secondary teachers throughout NSW responded to a call by their Teachers' Federation and stopped work for 24 hours on Tuesday last week. It was only the second stop…

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Huge Crime Computer Will Aid U.K. POLICE £16 million complex to be ready in 1972

The Biz · Thursday 19 November 1970 · page 7

Card indexes, forms and filing cabinets—that's how the British police keep their records at the moment. But soon all the information is going into a computer, which will be able to answer questions a great deal more quickly…

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Rents Court Is Proposed

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 24 November 1970 · page 5

A Labor Government would give all tenants the right to have their rents determined by a special rents court. Mr. J. P. Flaherty. MLA for Granville, said recently. He added that a labor…

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Lib. Bid to Crush Dissent Nsw Bill Hits Freedom Police Raids, Heavy Fines

Tribune · Wednesday 25 November 1970 · page 4

The new Summary Offences Bill now being rushed through the NSW State Assembly was described as an "abomination", by Mr. Ken Buckley, vice-president of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties. Mr. Buckley was writing in The Australian (November 18) after…

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