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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1978

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

Police investigate public transport fraud

Tribune · Wednesday 30 August 1978 · page 4

SYDNEY: Police are investigating fraud allegations against a senior Public Transport Commission (PTC) official who hastily resigned a few weeks ago and is…

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Nobody Tried to Murder Me

Tharunka · Monday 4 September 1978 · page 2

Dear Eds, I am writing on behalf of all those students that did’nt get aborted in their foetal stage of life…

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Police State Laws on Old Reserves

Tribune · Wednesday 6 September 1978 · page 12

CAIRNS: The Queensland government intends to throw "radicals and stirrers" off the Mornington Island and Aurukun reserves. "Drop-outs, hangers-on and…

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Abortion and Double-Think “So if a foetus is human life, then to kill it for the sake of the mother’s convenience is murder and a terrible crime”

Tharunka · Monday 11 September 1978 · page 3

Crime and punishment go hand in hand, or do they? Where does the crime begin for this kind of punishment? How many of you ardent student debaters on the…

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Four Russian Jews sentenced to death

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 21 September 1978 · page 9

JERUSALEM: Four Soviet Jews are believed to have been sentenced to death by a Ukrainian court on charges arising from economic crimes, immigrants in Israel who have telephoned…

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Strikers defy Court order

Tribune · Wednesday 4 October 1978 · page 4

SYDNEY: NSW government printers are continuing their strike and picket despite an order by Justice Dey last week. The 600 printers have been out since September 22…

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Police deny story about terrorist

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 October 1978 · page 10

TEL AVIV: Nothing is still known in Israel about the suggested arrival here of German terrorist Hans…

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Library Theft

Tharunka · Monday 23 October 1978 · page 2

To Whom It May Concern, Last Tuesday my briefcase was removed from the Bagroom in the Library. I am Dramsoc Treasurer and…

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Neo-nazi Youths Charged

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 October 1978 · page 10

HAMBURG: Twenty-one members of the WikingJugend, a neo-Nazi youth organization in northern…

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Court mimics Bjelke

Tribune · Wednesday 1 November 1978 · page 3

PERTH: Labor MHR for Fremantle, John Dawkins, has accused the state and federal governments of…

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Police Harass Housing Activist

Tribune · Wednesday 29 November 1978 · page 3

CANBERRA: Canberra police arrested an activist in the low cost housing campaign…

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Paris Et Les Collections D’ete “La Ligne Droite Est Le Plus Court Chemin...”

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 1 December 1978 · page 14

PARIS. — L'écologie, c'est fini. Plus de couleurs de terre, argile ou craie, vêtements amollis mais des couleurs…

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Police dismantle F19 barricade

Tribune · Wednesday 6 December 1978 · page 11

MELBOURNE: Residents barricaded the Alexandra Parade exit of the F19 freeway last Sunday after a community day of music, clowns and speakers on the first anniversary of the freeway opening…

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Fighting the Police State

Tribune · Wednesday 6 December 1978 · page 12

Brisbane streets will see an historic confrontation between the organised trade union movement and the forces of the Bjelke-Petersen police state on December 7…

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Utah's High Court Decision Protest

Tribune · Wednesday 13 December 1978 · page 11

MELBOURNE: Over 60 seafarers picketed the AMP building last week to protest the High Court's…

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