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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1976

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

More and more police control will be used against the anger and 'idleness' of the unemployed Meet your new unemployment officer

Tribune · Wednesday 29 September 1976 · page 5

Is Marilyn's experience an isolated incident of victimisation by an over-zealous police officer, or is it a common occurrence? Evidence suggests that the police are being used in the large urban centres to cope with the social problems which arise from the current…

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POLAND: Court revokes prison term for food-price demonstrators

Tribune · Wednesday 6 October 1976 · page 9

POLAND: A Polish appeals court has revoked the sentences of seven workers who participated in recent food price protests. They had been…

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Neo-nazi Sentenced

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 October 1976 · page 10

OSLO: The neo-Nazi high school teacher, Olav Hoaas, who was accused of contravening the 1970 law…

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Bjelke's kangaroo court jumps on another worker

Tribune · Wednesday 13 October 1976 · page 4

BRISBANE: The Queensland government has sacked another worker over a drug conviction. It seems…

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Court ends woman's 'convict conditions'

Tribune · Wednesday 20 October 1976 · page 4

BRISBANE: Women railway gatekeepers in Queensland have finally achieved the forty-hour…

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Police, courts used against Fairfax strikers

Tribune · Wednesday 3 November 1976 · page 4

SYDNEY: Fairfax management is trying to use police, "staff labor", the NSW Supreme Court and the…

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Court, W.A. Labor OK woodchipping

Tribune · Wednesday 10 November 1976 · page 3

PERTH: The state Labor opposition combined with the Court government in rejecting proposals to…

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Police coup by Bjelke

Tribune · Wednesday 24 November 1976 · page 12

BRISBANE: Queensland's Police Commissioner, Mr Ray Whitrod, was forced to resign last week. This followed his opposition to State Cabinet changes within the top echelon of the police force. His resignation was unanimously accepted…

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Queensland becoming a police state

Tribune · Wednesday 8 December 1976 · page 3

BRISBANE: Ex-Police Commissioner Whitrod last week made comments about the Cedar Bay raid and…

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Court Defuses Corruption Scandal

Tribune · Wednesday 8 December 1976 · page 11

PERTH: A division in the state government coalition has forced the Court government to abandon…

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Court probe call

Tribune · Wednesday 15 December 1976 · page 11

PERTH: A public meeting held in Belmont, West Australia, last Friday called for a Royal Commission into…

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