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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1978

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

court to decide whales’ future

Tharunka · Tuesday 23 May 1978 · page 3

Australia became a centre of world attention last month when the first judicial inquiry ever held into the future of whaling opened in Melbourne…

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Police Bomb 'Intriguing'

Tribune · Wednesday 24 May 1978 · page 3

SYDNEY: Last Thursday evening a bomb exploded against a window of the NSW Police Headquarters. On Friday afternoon Det…

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World in Focus Vanuaaku police stop arrests

Tribune · Wednesday 24 May 1978 · page 9

VANUAAKU (New Hebrides): The journal Seli Hoo which reports news from these islands says that the British and French administration planned to…

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Murder theory is rejected

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 May 1978 · page 10

PARIS: Paris police have discounted reports that Delta, a Right-wing organization, was responsible for the murder of Henri Curiel, a 63-year-old stateless Egyptian Jew who had lived in France since 1952…

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ITALY... ferment in the police

Tribune · Wednesday 31 May 1978 · page 6

One of the hottest debates in Italy today concerns the status and role of the police. It is a far-eaching debate in which there are some deep divisions between the Christian…

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Court plans cut in state ships

Tribune · Wednesday 31 May 1978 · page 5

PERTH: Fremantle's Labor MP Dr John Troy last week attacked the Court government's plan to replace two State ships Beroona and Wambiri by one larger ship…

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Struggle Thai Students Tried by Martial Court

Tharunka · Tuesday 6 June 1978 · page 7

Thailand's military coup of October 6,1976 which resulted in the overthrowing of the three-year-old democratic government and the installation of a…

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Industrial News Court Battle for Shop Union

Tribune · Wednesday 21 June 1978 · page 4

SYDNEY: The NSW Court of Appeal last week upheld Justice Taylor's ruling last February that amalgamation between the NSW Australian Workers Union (AWU) and…

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Police ban on French Nazis

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 July 1978 · page 11

PARIS: A neo-Nazi meeting at the Chateau Blondy-les-Tours in Seine et Marne, not far from here, has been stopped by French police at the request of the…

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Police disperse bauxite protest

Tribune · Wednesday 12 July 1978 · page 3

PERTH: Police forced Campaign to Save Native Forests demonstrators to…

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Counterterrorist Police Inadequate

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 July 1978 · page 4

MELBOURNE: The image of Australia's police forces in counterterrorist work is not as good as it should be, according to former Queensland Police Commissioner Ray Whitrod. Mr Whitrod, who is a…

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Court Action

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 July 1978 · page 3

Melbourne radio station 3CR faces court action over an alleged defamation broadcast on the…

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Prisoner murdered by security police

Tribune · Wednesday 19 July 1978 · page 9

SOUTH AFRICA: Another black detainee, Mr Lugile Tablanza, has fallen to his death from the sixth floor window of the Port Elizabeth security…

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Gay March Against Police Attacks

Tribune · Wednesday 19 July 1978 · page 11

SYDNEY: "End police attacks on gays, women and Blacks" -- "Get the state Off our bodies" -- "Drop the charges against the 60" (arrested on July 15). These chants were prominent in the largest Gay…

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International News Supreme Court Bakkes down on minority rights

Tribune · Wednesday 19 July 1978 · page 9

WASHINGTON: A recent ruling of the US Supreme Court threatens countless positive programs aimed at discrimination against minority groups. The Court has declared unconstitutional university quota…

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Brisbane Police in 'Brutal Action'

Tribune · Wednesday 26 July 1978 · page 3

Thirty-two women and ten men were arrested at last Saturday's women's demonstration in one of the most brutal actions by Brisbane police…

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British Jewry Facing Assault on Campuses

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 August 1978 · page 17

The problems, in many Ways similar to those which exist in Australia, were revealed by the…

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Industrial News Police Arrest Delegates

Tribune · Wednesday 9 August 1978 · page 4

SYDNEY: Two Australian Workers Union (AWU) delegates from Flemington Rail Construction branch were charged with using obscene language in Lidcombe Court last week following an industrial…

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Radicals Charged

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 August 1978 · page 11

HANOVER: Four young men aged between 17 and 24 who conducted themselves as “neo-Nazis” have…

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Paris Gesfapo chief charged

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 August 1978 · page 11

COLOGNE: Dr Kurt Lischka, 68, the wartime Nazi security chief in Paris, has been charged here with complicity in the murder of at least 33,000 Jews who were deported to concentration camps…

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