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Courts & crime, 1979

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Protestors charged

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1979 · page 6

TOWNSVILLE: Nine unemployed people arrested during a sit-in at the Townsville Department of Social Security office on November 7 are on bail of $775. As reported in Tribune last week, the sit-in was organised to protest…

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WA police block inquiry

Tribune · Wednesday 28 November 1979 · page 6

Commissioner for Community Relations A1 Grassby said last week that his office may intervene over allegations that a police patrol intimidated a party of Aboriginal schoolchildren last September…

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Computerised Control West Germany's Police State

Tribune · Wednesday 12 December 1979 · page 9

This article, edited for Tribune by Tom Appleton, is from a brochure prepared for publication outside West Germany by CAMOWEG -- Campaign Against the Model West Germany. The original 36-page document is…

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Timor protestors charged under New WA Act

Tribune · Wednesday 19 December 1979 · page 8

Over 30 people demonstrated outside Perth's Beaufort St courts last week when six supporters of Friends…

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Court's smelly scandal

Tribune · Wednesday 19 December 1979 · page 5

PERTH: The Court government is running for cover as Water Supply workers expose serious health problems from "dirty smelly water and the big rise in the number of rats and cockroaches in sewerage systems"…

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