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Courts & crime, 1976

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

Police inspector Hancock dies

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 18 May 1976 · page 1

Merrylands resident and Parramatta policeman, Insp Frank Hancock, 54, died at his home recently. Insp Hancock, who received the police good conduct…

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Rape Victim Charged

Tribune · Wednesday 19 May 1976 · page 3

SYDNEY: Irene, a 28-year old woman on supporting mother's benefit, was raped last year in Queensland…

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Mall's Favorite No drugs crisis here: police

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 25 May 1976 · page 1

Merrylands detectives last week said abuse of drags was only miner in the Holroyd…

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Police attack rape protesters

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1976 · page 3

BRISBANE: Police attacked women demonstrating against the conviction for "false…

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Police intimidation, racist remarks greet blacks

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1976 · page 2

BRISBANE: Blacks from the Queensland Black Embassy Information Centre, established in…

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High Court refuses war probe request

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 July 1976 · page 11

JERUSALEM: An application by Yom Kippur War hero Motti Ashkenazi to order the Defence Minister and Chief of Staff to conduct an investigation into the shortcomings of the Suez Canal strongholds during the war was rejected last week by the High Court of…

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Parking Clash Council to Seek Police Support

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 13 July 1976 · page 3

Customers are again parking on the footpath in front of a hardware store on the Great W[?]stern Highway, South…

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Police "Raid" Moriah!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 July 1976 · page 9

Pupils of Moriah College Infants and Primary Schools recently were visited by the NSW Police!…

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Group Wanted by Italian Police

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 July 1976 · page 13

ROME: Eight members of the Mossad, an Israeli secret service group, are believed to have been responsible for the killing, in October 1972, of Abdul Wael Zuaiter, the Fatah…

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U.K. protest over Mrs Bloch murder

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 July 1976 · page 1

LONDON: Horrified and angered at the savage murder in Uganda of Mrs Dora Bloch, the 75-year-old woman who was in a Kampala hospital at the time of the Israeli rescue of her fellow hostages, a large number of Jews and non-Jews held…

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Police warn of 'con man'

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 3 August 1976 · page 1

Police claim a man masquerading as a salesman from an electrical firm is "conning" residents out of large sums of money…

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Three students charged in political economy row

Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1976 · page 2

SYDNEY: Three more students have been charged with assault and damage to property in the on-going…

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Bjelke Blocks Police Bashings Inquiry

Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1976 · page 12

BRISBANE: Queensland Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, has blocked a departmental inquiry ordered by Police Commissioner, Mr Whitrod, into a police attack on students last week. The students, from three Brisbane tertiary…

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Court Allows Topless Waitresses

Tribune · Wednesday 11 August 1976 · page 4

ADELAIDE: Topless waitresses are good fop business and the SA Industrial Court approves…

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East Timor: Australian co-operation with Indo secret police

Tribune · Wednesday 18 August 1976 · page 9

TIMOR: Close co-operation between Australian security police and their Indonesian counterparts was exposed last week in an article in…

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Police bash anti-apartheid demonstrators

Tribune · Wednesday 25 August 1976 · page 3

BRISBANE: One hundred and twenty police attacked about eighty anti-apartheid demonstrators last…

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Anthony accused of contempt of court

Tribune · Wednesday 1 September 1976 · page 11

SYDNEY: Mr Greg Woods, counsel for the Friends of the Earth at the Ranger Uranium Inquiry, has…

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Court orders secret ballot for plumbers

Tribune · Wednesday 22 September 1976 · page 4

MELBOURNE: For the first time in 31 years, the Arbitration Commission has ordered a union to hold a…

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Police Cover Up Cedar Bay Raid 'Queensland slipping into fascism' - minister, unionists

Tribune · Wednesday 22 September 1976 · page 1

BRISBANE: Queensland government authorities and the Police Department have launched a massive cover-up operation to destroy evidence and remove and intimidate witnesses to their August 29 search…

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Cedar Bay Police try harder

Tribune · Wednesday 29 September 1976 · page 11

BRISBANE: Further information surrounding the Cedar Bay events continues to come to light. It…

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