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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1978

75 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

Police Evict Squatters

Tribune · Wednesday 15 March 1978 · page 11

SYDNEY: Commonwealth police broke down the door of a terrace house in Derwent St, Glebe on March 8, forcibly removing 16 women and charging them with trespass. Most of those arrested were supporting three women who had occupied the house on the previous night because they had nowhere to go. The house has been empty for six…

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Mayor charged

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 March 1978 · page 11

JERUSALEM: Professor Aharon Barak, the Attonery-General, has decided to press criminal…

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Reviews Murder At The New Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 20 March 1978 · page 12

SAVED is definitely an unpleasant play. Its inspiration was the horrifying stoning to death of a child in a pram. Bond attempts to reconstruct the incident by…

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Court changes laws for diamond miners

Tribune · Wednesday 29 March 1978 · page 2

PERTH: The battle to stop diamond prospecting on the Oombulgurri people's…

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Olmert demands ousting of Police Chief and aides

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 March 1978 · page 9

JERUSALEM: Knesset member Ehud Olmert (due to arrive in Sydney tomorrow for the United Israel Appeal) is currently in the centre of a political storm in Israel. IMr Olmert called for the…

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Court Ignores Aborigines Wishes

Tribune · Wednesday 5 April 1978 · page 10

Aboriginal leader Ken Colbung this week denied that the Court government was observing the wishes of the Oombulgurri people at the Forrest River Reserve in the Kimberleys…

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70,000 on NSW secret police files

Tribune · Wednesday 5 April 1978 · page 12

SYDNEY: The NSW Privacy Committee reported last week that the police Special Branch holds files on 70,000 people. Its report shows to hat the Branch tried to cover up by lying to the committee…

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Melbourne Council garbage strike Industrial Police Threat Fizzes

Tribune · Wednesday 12 April 1978 · page 4

The month long garbage strike which threatened a confrontation between Metal Workers Union (AMWSU) and Fraser's Industrial…

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Court Continues Racist Campaign Against Blacks

Tribune · Wednesday 19 April 1978 · page 3

Liberal MLA R J Tubby told the WA parliament recently that the policy of dispersing Aboriginal families was "killing a lot of good country towns"…

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Candidates raided by police

Tribune · Wednesday 26 April 1978 · page 2

Fifteen detectives have raided 120 people because of a voter registration drive being conducted for the coming Hobart City Council election…

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Police will be more political

Tribune · Wednesday 26 April 1978 · page 5

"The police will become even more a political police following Sir Robert Mark's report on…

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2,000 meatworkers marsh on Fremantle court

Tribune · Wednesday 26 April 1978 · page 4

PERTH: Over two thousand workers massed outside the Fremantle Court last Wednesday in support of arrested meatworker pickets. The 34 pickets were remanded until May 11…

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World in Focus White control of police will not change

Tribune · Wednesday 26 April 1978 · page 9

ZIMBABWE: The Black leaders who compromised with PM Ian Smith are finding it difficult to reform the white minority state machine. Black…

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Assault and Bikery

Tharunka · Monday 1 May 1978 · page 2

Dear Editors, I am sick and tired of my bike (motor) being treated as non-entities we team up and take to the road…

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Police charge 2 with hold-up of gun shop

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 2 May 1978 · page 7

TWO moa appeared in Fairfield Court last week charged in connection with tho…

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Police harass sick man

Tribune · Wednesday 3 May 1978 · page 5

Can police force their way into your home without explanation and then try to drag you…

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Police probe Hobart Council poll

Tribune · Wednesday 3 May 1978 · page 11

HOBART: Police Minister Barnard has admitted that police investigations into City…

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Playing in Court

Tharunka · Monday 8 May 1978 · page 21

Dear Editors, The recent court actions concerning payment of student fees and ultimately the principle of student…

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Victoria Police 'Untouchable'

Tribune · Wednesday 17 May 1978 · page 3

When Sergeant Gaudion was acquitted on four bribery charges last week he became the last of 22 police officers freed on charges laid after the Beach Inquiry into police…

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Murder, Bloody Murder

Tharunka · Tuesday 23 May 1978 · page 4

If you think this sounds like the title of yet another detective novel, let us put you straight. The topic is one to be discussed by Mr Pat Horton, Senior Forensic…

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