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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1976

51 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3

Murder May Ease Halacha

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 January 1976 · page 15

NEW YORK: Orthodox and Conservative rabbis are studying the halachic (rabbinic legal) sources for clues…

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Burglary increase tipped for January Holiday Danger

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 6 January 1976 · page 3

The number of house breakings could rise in January, according to a leading security expert. Sales director of Chubbs, security…

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Police harassment

Tribune · Wednesday 28 January 1976 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police are continuing their harassment of Libby Barratt and Mick O'Loughlin, who were subject…

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Secret police oppress the Marrano community in the Azores

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 February 1976 · page 14

The Azores — the nine-island archipelago in the Atlantic — boasts a sizeable…

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Damned Whores & God's Police Damned Whores and God's Police the Colonization of Women in Australia. By Anne Summers (Pelican Books)

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1976 · page 10

It's amazing to read a book with hunger, but that's the way I picked up Anne Summers' book: a book on the history of women in Australia. You mean women in…

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Behind Wage Cut Plan Submissions before court "Weak and ill-prepared"

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1976 · page 1

The Fraser government appears unlikely to succeed immediately in its attempt to halve the 6.4 per cent rise in wages due under indexation. But industrial observers believe that the Government's…

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Feminists charged over anti-Fraser poster

Tribune · Wednesday 25 February 1976 · page 3

SYDNEY: "Abort Fraser his mother did not have the choice" may not be unseemly words, but they still cost Nina…

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Women charged under bogus law

Tribune · Wednesday 3 March 1976 · page 2

BRISBANE: The forces of "law and order" in Bjelke-Petersen Land have found one more way to discourage…

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Court ruling stires Temple Mount row

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 March 1976 · page 11

JERUSALEM: Mr Itzhak Raphael, Israel's Minister of Religious Affairs, is asking the Rabbinical authorities to consider the matter of Jews praying in the Temple Mount area. This follows a ruling by a judge here last week that Jews were entitled to pray…

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Man Charged for Bomb

Tribune · Wednesday 10 March 1976 · page 3

A small article in the Brisbane Courier Mail on February 28 1975 announced that Raymond Donald…

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Raped, then charged by police

Tribune · Wednesday 17 March 1976 · page 5

BRISBANE: This is the story of two women, victims both of rape and of discriminatory laws against…

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Getting away with murder

Tribune · Wednesday 17 March 1976 · page 6

On the night of October 17 last year two sailors, Kenneth Butler and Bevan Jones, got into a dispute with Aborigines at the Berrimah Hotel. They had tried to pick up Aboriginal women in the lounge bar…

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Brisbane Police Riot at Bike Protest Rally

Tribune · Wednesday 24 March 1976 · page 12

Brisbane: About seventy cyclists in Brisbane last Saturday, March 13, took to the city streets to express their concern at the lack of facilities for…

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Court's Ruling

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 March 1976 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Israeli officials are hopeful a Supreme Court ruling barring Jews from praying at a site…

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Police stop Jews' Temple Mount prayer

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 March 1976 · page 10

JERUSALEM: The first organized attempt by Jewish nationalists to pray on the Temple Mount since a magistrate court's last January permitting such prayer was turned back by police last week…

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physical violence 2 police riot

Tharunka · Wednesday 7 April 1976 · page 3

On Wednesday 31st March, over 1,000 people gathered to express their disgust and anger over the visit of US Vice-President, Nelson…

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Land Court to Go

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 13 April 1976 · page 11

The Land and Valuation Court would be disbanded, NSW Premier, Sir Eric Willis,…

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Govt Covers Up Journalists' Murder!

Tribune · Wednesday 28 April 1976 · page 1

New evidence on the Indonesian massacre of five Australian war. correspondents convicts the Australian government of covering up for the Suharto government. Foreign Minister Peacock…

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Eviction-after 2½ Years of Bashings, Murder

Tribune · Wednesday 28 April 1976 · page 3

SYDNEY: The three-year battle for Victoria Street, Kings Cross (it commenced with the builders' laborers…

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Police raid left group

Tribune · Wednesday 5 May 1976 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Seven armed Commonwealth Police Officers visited a Caulfield home last week…

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