Police harass unemployed
Police harassment of Hobart jobless continued last week when they raided a house run by the Unemployed Workers Union (UWU). Raids have been a regular…
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Help Queenslanders light the Police state
by Sandra Bloodworth, Queensland civil rights activist now living in Melbourne where she is helping organise solidarity action. Many Australians dismiss Queensland as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Frasers industrial police: recipe for conflict
The Fraser government has given the Industrial Relations Bureau (IRB) sweeping powers to punish unions. The IRB has powers to: de-register a union…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Premier Court Talks Business with Nazi
Dr Hans-Gunther Sohl recently led a high-pressure West German trade delegation to Australia, discussing uranium mining at Yeelirrie and other projects with West Australian premier…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Step-up Watch Patrols
Police are intensifying patrols on synagogues and other Jewish communal properties in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Builders beat police-backed scabs
Building workers last week defied police to force 11 scabs from the Wanneroo Hospital site, an important victory in their campaign to unionise all construction sites…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Rules on Autopsy Rights
JERUSALEM: In what may be set an autopsy ruling precedent, the Jerusalem District Court has stipulated that the family of a deceased person does not have “absolute rights” over the body. IThe anti-autopsy law is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Ride Yellowcake Train
BRISBANE: A train carrying three containers of uranium yellowcake ore left Rockhampton at 6.30 pm last Friday, bound for the Brisbane wharves. The "special" cargo was accompanied by two police…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Take Activist for a Ride
BRISBANE: Civil rights activist Rick Roser was forced into a police car last Saturday, threatened with a gun and a bashing, and warned "Don't think you'll be let walk away next time"…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →High court challenge to IRB
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (AMWSU) issued a High Court challenge last week to the constitutional legality of the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ominous signs in Tehran murder
It did not take long for the murderous “revolutionary tribunal” in Iran to execute a leading member of the Tehran Jewish community, Habid Alkamian, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Mayor Meers Calls the Police
SYDNEY: In an unprecedented move the mayor of Sydney, Nelson Meers, last week called police into a City Council meeting when Labor Councillor Robert Tichner…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →High Jinks in the High Court
While the Fraser government ruthlessly cuts social welfare spending, it is frittering away millions on the arrogant whims of High Court Chief Justice Sir Garfield Barwick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police on PNG campus
PAPUA-NEW GUINEA: Fifty riot police were sent to the University of PNG in Port Moresby last week when students met to discuss a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The High Court-- a bastion of conservatism
The Fraser government's appointment of Ronald Darling Wilson to the High Court's vacant seventh seat broke new ground while continuing the long tradition of non-Labor governments…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Benoemd tot rechter bij "Family Court"
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bucking the police state
In May 1969 1.5 million Australian workers walked off their jobs when Tramways union official Clarrie O'Shea was jailed for refusing to pay fines under the notorious penal clauses. That…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police demonstrate
INDIA: The State government of Punjab, one of India's wealthier states, panicked and doubled the salary of its police constables after striking…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police threat against Island strike
CHRISTMAS ISLAND: The Federal government is preparing to use Commonwealth Police to put down "unrest" among striking phosphate miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fink loses in High Court
In a High Court decision handed down on June 20, the producers of The Removalists were found to be bound by agreements made…
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