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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1981

46 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3

Reviews Bloody Murder!!

Tribune · Wednesday 28 January 1981 · page 10

Dressed to Kill is part of a fashion in popular films based on the 'slasher' theme including Kubrick's The Shining, The…

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New York Police task force against ‘racial’ incidents

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 January 1981 · page 11

©1981 Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc. ANNOUNCEMENT BY the New York City Police Department of formation of a…

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Tel Aviv court hears of drugs, rape and suicide

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 January 1981 · page 7

TEL AVIV: Tales of drugs and sex were told last week in Magistrate Aharon Froind’s courtroom, when police brought in suspects in two episodes, one of which ended in a suicide. In one case a 22-year-old…

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Labor Attacks Court's Cuts

Tribune · Wednesday 4 February 1981 · page 7

PERTH: Senator-elect Ms Pat Giles recently attacked the Court government for planning what she called…

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Gordon Downs Court ducks major land rights show-down

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1981 · page 3

Facing a show-down over the land rights of more than 50 Aborigines evicted from Gordon Downs cattle station, the Court government last week moved to establish a 35-square-kilometre, 12-…

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MURDER and TORTURE in GUATAMALA

Tharunka · Tuesday 3 March 1981 · page 8

Amnesty International has claimed that a long-established government program of murder and torture in Guatemala was run from an annex of the…

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Police powers

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1981 · page 14

The February meeting of the Hamilton Combined Pensioners' Association unanimously carried a resolution condemning the NSW…

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Court action on Alcoa

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1981 · page 3

In an unprecedented class action the Conservation Council of WA has issued subpoenas against the…

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N.Z. marches to Police state

Tribune · Wednesday 11 March 1981 · page 16

Prime Minister Robert ("Piggy") Muldoon has taken New Zealand another giant step towards police-state rule in recent weeks. He took the country to the…

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Police Guard Rebbe

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 9

NEW YORK: The Belzer rebbe, Yissochor Dov Rokeach, was under police guard when he arrived here from Jerusalem after numerous threats against his life from the Satmar community. As many as 500 Satmar…

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Marathon Cross Court Rally

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 14

A group of six young people from Australia disembarked at Ben Gurion airport after paying their own…

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Kosher in gaol

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 24

Passover packages are again being sent to Jewish prisoners in NSW this year. The parcels, which are…

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Police Rescue Torah

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 13

NEW YORK, (JCNS): Two New York policemen saved several Torah scrolls from destruction when…

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Gaol Stalemate

Tharunka · Sunday 12 April 1981 · page 12

The prison system over the last hundred years has not changed its underlying philosophy as one of punishment isolation with the word "rehabilitation'…

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Gestalt Groin Horror Police Probe

Tharunka · Sunday 12 April 1981 · page 31

The Reverend Lorry Gestalt, Australian liason officer for the Church of Latter Day Castrations, was yesterday gunned down and seriously wounded as he took a short "meet the people" stroll through the U.N.S.W. Campus. GROIN…

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Court Case Statement

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 May 1981 · page 3

The president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Robert Goot and the president of the State Zionist Council of NSW, Arnold Newhouse, have issued a statement concerning a court case, involving two businessmen of the Jewish faith, which made headlines in Sydney recently…

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Court acquits Minister; MK guilty

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 May 1981 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Religious Affairs Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira has been acquitted by the…

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Police Chip at Denninc Iha6e

Tharunka · Tuesday 2 June 1981 · page 6

NSW police declared a full-scale war against their most provocative and politically damaging escaper, Ray Denning, after a Parramatta prison…

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Court axes public participation

Tribune · Wednesday 3 June 1981 · page 7

PERTH: The Court government recently axed finance to a community committee set up to organise public discussion on a…

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Court ruling: Yarmulkas okay for basketballers!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 June 1981 · page 35

The Chicago region of the American Jewish Congress has won a temporary restraining order allowing two Jewish high…

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