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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1971

55 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3

Copping it for police

Tribune · Wednesday 14 April 1971 · page 11

WHAT GOES on in the NSW police force under Premier and Police Minister Askin and Commissioner…

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Vic. Police Conspiracy Case; Now a Death

Tribune · Wednesday 14 April 1971 · page 12

MELBOURNE: On the same day that a police inspector and two former police officers were found…

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Uni students charged

Tribune · Wednesday 5 May 1971 · page 12

PERTH. -- Charges against university students for a demonstration at the Labour and National Service offices spurred about 40 more students to stage another…

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Sydney Barrister Wants to Attend Leningrad Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 May 1971 · page 1

Sydney barrister Mr Marcus Einfeld has requested the Soviet Ambassador for an entry visa to the Soviet Union and permission to attend the current trials of nine Jews in Leningrad…

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Murder Kitchen

Tharunka · Tuesday 25 May 1971 · page 1

A LIVING BODY is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, Like a flame or whirlpool: The shape alone is stable, for the substance itself is a stream of energy…

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Editorial Murder in Istanbul

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 May 1971 · page 2

The kidnapping and murder of Israeli diplomat, Mr Ephraim Elrom is another crime, which, although indirectly, must be placed on the doorsteps of the Arab terrorist movements and their…

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Sentenced for assault

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1971 · page 12

SYDNEY: In Central Court of Petty Sessions on May 28, Ross Leslie May, 26, pensioner, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Peter McGregor in Belmore…

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Stays away from court

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1971 · page 10

MELBOURNE: "If I appeared in court I would be submitting to a procedure designed to intimidate others," draft resister Michael Hamel-Green told Tribune last…

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Police Short, But --

Tribune · Wednesday 16 June 1971 · page 4

SYDNEY: While the police strength is notoriously inadequate for their legitimate functions, the Government last week had policemen (instead of, normally, depot officials) going to bus drivers' homes…

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Police

Tribune · Wednesday 23 June 1971 · page 2

I would like to see a "Policeman of the Century Award" started, making it possible to focus public attention on a force that harbored (and still does) some of…

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Draft defier not in court

Tribune · Wednesday 23 June 1971 · page 12

Melbourne: "See you on June 30", said a message from draft resister Tony Dalton read to a crowd of supporters at the Magistrates' court last…

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Long Bay Gaol : a Different Perspective

Tharunka · Thursday 1 July 1971 · page 28

Sydney has three major debating societies. One is at Mosman and the other two are in Parramatta and Long Bay Gaols. This may come as a surprise, for the New South Wales prison, system, backward though it is in some respects, is…

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Nine More Jews in Soviet Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 July 1971 · page 1

MOSCOW: The court in the Moldavian capital of Kishinev trying, nine Soviet Jews on charges of anti-Soviet activity last week completed the hearing of witnesses, according to Jewish sources here…

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Victorian Police's Overkill

Tribune · Wednesday 14 July 1971 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Police chiefs, acting with the connivance of the government, overreached themselves by their actions against demonstrators on July 3 and 4,…

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Patience' the Key to Crossing Police Decision

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 20 July 1971 · page 3

Two Smithfield mothers have lost their battle for a pedestrian crossing at Woodpark Road, Smithfield. Representations were made for the crossing by…

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Racism, That 'Emergency' and Police Brutality Strike at Qld. University highlights new protest wave

Tribune · Wednesday 28 July 1971 · page 3

BRISBANE: Last week's historic general strike by Queensland trade unionists against Premier Bjelke-Petersen's racist "state of emergency"…

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Who controls the police?

Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1971 · page 12

BRISBANE: A Royal Commission in Adelaide inquiring into the Moratorium came out with the view that the Police Commissioner has power to act…

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What You Have to Do to See Angela Davis in Court

Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1971 · page 9

If you want to see Angela Davis in court you had better be patient. You go to the Marin County Courthouse in California walk through a metal…

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Parcmetres, Cheques, Horodateurs Paris n’est pas a court d’ideesmais les fraudeurs veillent

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 20 August 1971 · page 3

C même qui avait suscité de durs SnT' sessions du Conseil de Paris semb e ê quatre-vingt-dix out f a i "…

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Pleas through window Police Vigil

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 7 September 1971 · page 1

' The man, in his early twenties, walked from a flat in Newman Street to be met by a squad of…

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