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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1980

50 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3

Police bashing

Tribune · Wednesday 11 June 1980 · page 7

Townsville: A District Court jury has found a police sergeant guilty of bashing a man with a baton in the cells, and awarded the victim…

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Rendra to Ask Court for Visa

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1980 · page 7

Indonesian playwright W S Rendra will go to court to try to get an exit visa to visit Australia…

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Sixty Years 1920 CPA 1980 Police spies, bashings, commie troublemakers and doable milk rations

Tribune · Wednesday 23 July 1980 · page 11

Jack Williams of Newcastle joined the Young Communist League in 1930 and has been an activist for 50 years. A painter by trade, he is a life member of the Painters Union and, was a fulltime CPA organiser for 14…

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Board Likely to Seek Court Action on Council Poll Day

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 July 1980 · page 3

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies was last week urged to seek a court order to force the State Government to change the date of this year’s Local Government elections. This follows con- from its president Robert…

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Police dogs

Tribune · Wednesday 30 July 1980 · page 14

The television news of July 18, showed the activities of police training dogs for drug work, rescue work and apprehension of…

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In Brief Hamburgers to court

Tribune · Wednesday 30 July 1980 · page 6

Melbourne: McDonald's System of Australia Pty Ltd has taken out a writ against a group of people allegedly responsible for…

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Court Decision Sets Precedent

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1980 · page 12

JERUSALEM: Legal history was creatal hare recently when the Jerusalem District Court appointed a receiver for the assets of a Melbourne couple who have been declared bankrupt in the…

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Police Warning: No Illegal Parking Outside Jewish Colleges

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 August 1980 · page 3

Waverley Police Traffic Branch has called on Jewish parents to obey parking regulations “in the interests of child safety.” The branch has received…

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Letter From Gaol

Tharunka · Tuesday 12 August 1980 · page 7

It's worth remembering that the British Empire isn't quite dead. The presence of British troops in Northern Ireland has prolonged that conflict: many people have been imprisoned in Long Kesh and Armagh gaols, and are currently campaigning for status as political prisoners…

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Police protect Belgian Jewry

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 August 1980 · page 12

BRUSSELS — Jewish communal institutions throughout Belgium have been granted special round-the-clock police protection following last week’s attack on a group of…

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Airport Wants Polite Police

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 August 1980 · page 10

BEN-GURION AIRPORT: The airport management, the police and tourist companies are all bent on improving the image of border control police…

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Army sacks police chief

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 September 1980 · page 9

JERUSALEM: The chief of the Military Police, Baruch Arbel, has been removed from his post as investigation into alleged corruption charges against him continue…

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Computer, engineers help tennis club in court lighting plan

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 September 1980 · page 24

Sydney Maccabi Tennis Club will have computerised technical data when it seeks local Council approval to floodlight its courts in Wellington…

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Programme to Keep People Out of Gaol (keeps S.U. reps out also)

Tharunka · Tuesday 23 September 1980 · page 3

“I don’t like your attitude, you’re out,” said the burly Superintendant of Parramatta Gaol, Mr. Duff, to a UNSW…

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Solicitor charged with 'touching'

Tribune · Wednesday 24 September 1980 · page 7

MELBOURNE: The Law Institute, fighting to protect the legal profession's monopoly over land transfer…

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Israeli Eggs Land Egyptian in Gaol

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 September 1980 · page 8

CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Supply last month confiscated and auctioned off more than 10,000,000 Israeli eggs because an Egyptian wholesaler was sellina them above the official price. The eggs were exported…

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Police in Nazi terror groups

Tribune · Wednesday 15 October 1980 · page 6

FRANCE: Recent fascist terror attacks in France are part of a Europe-wide nazi terror network which includes many police. The French fascists bombed a…

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Eyewitness to Timor murder

Tribune · Wednesday 22 October 1980 · page 7

EAST TIMOR: A young Timorese refugee in Lisbon, Pedro Li, last week gave the first eye-witness…

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Police Speaker

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 November 1980 · page 3

Jewish police woman, Jennifer Koster, will discuss the role of women in the Police Force at the…

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Syria, a gaol for the Jewish community

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 November 1980 · page 6

The Syrian State has been transformed into a gaol for 4500 Jewish men, women and children and is on the verge of becoming a slaughter house for them, Dr Alan Crown told the November State Zionist Council sponsored “This Month Tonight” cultural…

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