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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1972

72 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

Brisbane Magistrate and That Portnoy

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 8

HAS Mr. Martin, of the Brisbane Magistrates Court, ever read William Shakespeare, studied by schoolchildren, or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Fielding…

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Police fear of children eating

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 9

Police are worried children may pick up poisoned meet left by a dog killer in the Merrylands…

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Police Issue Warning to Cracker Users Fireworks a danger

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 6 June 1972 · page 1

Following widespread injury from fireworks in past years, authorities have made restrictions on the sale and type of cracker…

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Editorial Murder Inc

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 June 1972 · page 2

Although the triggers of the machine guns at Lod Airport were pulled by three Japanese hired killers the real murderers should not be forgotten. The mass executioners of innocent victims are…

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Police Raid “Porno” Shops

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 June 1972 · page 16

JERUSALEM: Police raided warehouses and spots in all of Israel’s main towns last week, seizing tons of allegedly…

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Spectators Under Police Batons

Tharunka · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 3

Dear Sir, My attention has been called to the letter by Mr. Bob Huggett in Science I, complaining about the optical mark sense…

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ANU strike, court demo on resister

Tribune · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 11

"MAKE every politician's life a misery until the National Service Act is repealed", said Gordon Bryant, Labor MHR, at a rally held outside the…

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Army to teach police

The Biz · Thursday 15 June 1972 · page 7

Army facilities and instructors are helping train 23 NSW police officers…

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Melb. sellers charged

Tribune · Tuesday 20 June 1972 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Two street sellers of Leftwing papers -- one of Tribune and one of Direct Action -- have been summonsed to appear in the Melbourne…

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Hit at police violence

Tribune · Tuesday 20 June 1972 · page 12

NEWCASTLE: The Newcastle Trades Hall Council, at a meeting held in the week following the recent demonstrations against the new Nixon escalation of the…

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IMPERIALISM - the Great Polluter nixon plans mass murder by flood

Tribune · Tuesday 20 June 1972 · page 1

SYDNEY:The Nixon Administration is preparing the most terrible crime of its entire genocidal war against the Vietnamese people, Mr. L. Aarons, national secretary of the Communist Party of Australia told a press conference last Thursday (June 15)…

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Strange end to NG murder trial

Tribune · Tuesday 27 June 1972 · page 7

The five-months' trial of a group of Tolai men on charges of murder of an Australian district commissioner near Rabaul came to an extraordinary climax last week during the sentencing of five of…

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Seamen at Court

Tribune · Tuesday 4 July 1972 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Some funny things happened at the city magistrate's court on .Wednesday last week. Some were funny (ha-ha) and some were funny…

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Draft "Incitement" Case in Court

Tribune · Tuesday 18 July 1972 · page 12

SYDNEY: The magistrate took a hard line when two trade union officials and nine students and a university lecturer appeared on Monday in the Special…

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Court Acquits Guards

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 July 1972 · page 18

VIENNA: Two former Auschwitz concentration camp guards were acquitted by a court here last week…

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Police give no quarter to Blacks But sometimes it's different

Tribune · Tuesday 25 July 1972 · page 12

MELBOURNE: Police do not always use the toughest possible methods to achiever their aims as they did in breaking up the Aboriginal Embassy. In fact, they…

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From court trials to 'family vouchers' -- Czechoslovakia today

Tribune · Tuesday 15 August 1972 · page 8

The recent wave of political trials in Czechoslovakia, in which 46 supporters of the former (Dubcek) leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party have…

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Lay-off ends at long last Gang Leaders Are Arrested Police Catch Car Thieves

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 15 August 1972 · page 1

Detectives have arrested the leaders of a gang of car thieves who had been operating on a 500 acre patch of scrub near the…

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Army dodger sent to gaol

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 August 1972 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Giora Neumann, 19, of Ramat Aviv, who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Israel…

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Police bikes

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 August 1972 · page 9

The XS2 Yamaha bike has found favour with the NSW Police Department which has placed an order…

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