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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1978

75 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4

New Justice of Supreme Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 January 1978 · page 8

JERUSALEM: Prof, Menahem Elon was sworn in last week as a Supreme…

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Two admit stealing

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 17 January 1978 · page 2

TWO men have pleaded guilty to stealing from eight Holroyd houses. The men, a 20-year-old…

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'Unpolitical' Political Police

Tribune · Wednesday 25 January 1978 · page 2

"The work of the Special Branch is totally unpolitical; it serves the nation." This is dismissed Police Commissioner Salisbury's excuse for refusing to tell the…

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Are You on File? 200,000 police dossiers

Tribune · Wednesday 25 January 1978 · page 1

Premier Dunstan's dismissal of Police Commissioner Salisbury has blown up into a major political row affecting the whole nation. The powerful Adelaide Establishment has…

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Liberals Back Secret Police

Tribune · Wednesday 1 February 1978 · page 1

Secret files on hundreds of thousands of people, electronic bugging and other activities of ASIO, state police Special Branches and other intelligence groups…

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Libs rally for ex-police chief

Tribune · Wednesday 1 February 1978 · page 2

Four thousand people gathered in Victoria Square last week to listen to speeches by supporters of dismissed Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury. I haven't heard so many plums in mouth in one place for years-since I was last in…

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More telephone lines to police

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 7 February 1978 · page 3

MERRYLANDS police hove always striven for efficiency. Almost every new “Only two of them apdevelopment in the police peared in the telephone…

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Good enough for Army but not for police

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 7 February 1978 · page 2

AFTER 24 years as a corpord in the Australian Regular Army, Ron Drennan of Merrylands still wanted a job with the Government. In April, 1977, a few months after having left the…

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Tas Police Caught Out

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1978 · page 3

HOBART: The Tasmanian Police Minister has lied to the public over his Special Branch's activities - and has been caught out by Communist…

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Adelaide rally against secret police

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1978 · page 3

ADELAIDE: Over 100 people representing trade unions, solidarity groups and other…

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Fraser Beefs Up the Secret Police

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1978 · page 7

As soon as the Fraser government took office after the 1975 elections it began to beef up the secret political police. The Australian Security and Intelligence…

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Secret police scandal continues

Tribune · Wednesday 15 February 1978 · page 2

SYDNEY: Last Sunday two Tribune journalists tried to interview Mr Peter Warren of 35 Greengate Rd, Killara. Mr Warren is an elusive fellow. We were told by…

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Mass support for police sacking

Tribune · Wednesday 15 February 1978 · page 2

ADELAIDE: Over 7,000 people demonstrated support for the Dunstan government's actions against Special Branch activity here…

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Top Liberal charged

Tribune · Wednesday 22 February 1978 · page 11

PERTH: President of the WA Liberal Party, Noel Ashley Crichton Browne, was arrested and charged under a section of the Mining Act by Fraud Squad detectives last week…

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Police Spy on Campus

Tribune · Wednesday 1 March 1978 · page 12

BRISBANE: A Queensland Special Branch constable spent last year posing as a…

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Police files on 'half Tasmania'

Tribune · Wednesday 1 March 1978 · page 3

HOBART: Leading Tasmanian communist Pierre Slicer claims that a senior police officer told him that half the state's citizens are on police files. The microfilmed files are…

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Court Firm on Evictions

Tribune · Wednesday 1 March 1978 · page 11

PERTH: The Court government threatens to evict the first 43 of the 96 people who live…

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Public Service dispute goes to court

Tribune · Wednesday 8 March 1978 · page 11

SYDNEY: As Tribune goes to press NSW Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) officers are considering resuming normal work after a long dispute with the Public…

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...while back at the court

Tharunka · Monday 13 March 1978 · page 2

I read Mike Farrell's first ... letter in Tharunka last week where he discusses his "valiant" loss in the courts last week or whenever…

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Police Subversion

Tribune · Wednesday 15 March 1978 · page 2

What is above the law, keeps files on all its opponents, is responsible to a foreign boss, undermined elected governments, and uses force and…

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