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Courts & crime, 1977

79 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4

French Police Ban Anti-russian Demo

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 July 1977 · page 10

PARIS: A Jewish delegation headed by the Chief Rabbi of France, Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, was refused entry to the new Soviet Embassy building in Paris, when it attempted to hand in a letter addressed to the visiting Soviet leader, Mr Leonid Brezhnev…

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police attack' condemned

Tribune · Wednesday 13 July 1977 · page 3

and natural process of our democratic system". Waterside Workers Federation official Geoff…

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More to it than Police thought

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 19 July 1977 · page 2

TWO Merrylands Policemen really got “in for their chop” when they set out to catch a traffic offender last week. They were on duty In Fairfield Street, Guildford, at 5 am when they noticed a large van disobey traffic signals at a…

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Squash Court Not Suitable for Area

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 19 July 1977 · page 3

AN application for a private squash court to be built in Fairview St, Guildford, has been rejected by Holroyd…

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2000 'Go to Court'

Tribune · Wednesday 20 July 1977 · page 3

PERTH: Last Thursday over 2,000 workers massed outside the Fremantle Court in solidarity with 21 workers who were facing trial…

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The Rise of a Police State Uranium ‘An Important Factor’

Tharunka · Monday 25 July 1977 · page 4

Every major energy transition brings with it profound social change. The transition from wood to coal facilitated the Industrial Revolution; the transition from coal to petroleum enabled the development of the combustion…

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No inquiry into Neilsen murder

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1977 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Wran government has refused to conduct a Royal Commission into the murder of Kings Cross publisher Juanita Neilsen and subsequent police cover-up…

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Forum May Be Charged with False Advertising

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1977 · page 5

CANBERRA: The Society for Social Responsibility in Science has requested the Trade Practices Commission to investigate…

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Cedar Bay Police Off the Hook

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1977 · page 3

BRISBANE: Three of the four police charges over the paramilitary raid on the Cedar Bay commune on August 29 last, are…

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World in Focus Police shoot pickets

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1977 · page 9

CANADA: Flour mill workers in Montreal were shot at by security guards after they broke through barriers and tried to enter the mill. The…

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Griffith drug disappearance: Police and Criminals Linked

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1977 · page 3

SYDNEY: The disappearance and presumed murder of Griffith businessman…

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S.A. Court rules on “Six Million” book

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 July 1977 · page 14

JOHANNESBURG: The South African Supreme Court in Pretoria is to be asked to rule whether the anti-semitic publication, “Did Six Million Really Die - the Truth at Last,” should be freely available to the public…

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Supreme Court Injunction S.u. Will Fight!

Tharunka · Monday 1 August 1977 · page 15

A Supreme Court injunction been taken out in NSW restraining the Students' Union of the University of NSW the…

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Police check on trail bikes

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 August 1977 · page 3

A SPECIAL police mini and trail bike squad will make regular patrols of vacant land at…

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New Caledonia: Colonial Police Grab Kanak Activist

Tribune · Wednesday 10 August 1977 · page 9

"I am writing to you from prison where I was taken this afternoon by the police. It arises from the sentence passed on me on November 12, 1976." Dewe Gorodey, Kanak Liberation Party (PALIKA)…

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Three Blacks charged with attempted murder Cops rampage against Brisbane Blacks

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1977 · page 5

BRISBANE: Queensland police have taken the acquittal of police involved in the Cedar Bay raid as a green light for a rampage of brutality against Aborigines…

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World in Focus Police trap for nuclear protest

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1977 · page 9

FRANCE: Mr Price Lalonde of the French Friends of the Earth charged police with deliberately setting a trap for anti-nuclear demonstrators at the…

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Police raid unionists' homes

Tribune · Wednesday 24 August 1977 · page 4

PERTH: Police raided the homes of several union members last Monday and seized…

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Businessmen behind drug murder

Tribune · Wednesday 31 August 1977 · page 7

A less publicised murder in the drug scene was that of Maria Anne Hission whose body was found floating in Sydney Harbor in 1975. The Melbourne Herald claimed recently (August 10) that a…

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Police agency abolished

Tribune · Wednesday 31 August 1977 · page 9

CHILE: On the eve of a visit by a US foreign affairs official, the military junta announced the dissolution of the secret police agency DINA. A…

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