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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1982

39 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Nurses executive in court

Tribune · Wednesday 7 July 1982 · page 5

Newly-elected Nurses Association general secretary Jenny Haines claimed in court last week that association…

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The Juanita Neilsen case: an establishment murder?

Tribune · Wednesday 21 July 1982 · page 8

One thing is certain in the Juanita Nielsen case: she is dead. Yet it has taken seven years for the NSW government to decide to hold an inquest into her death. Juanita Nielsen was last seen alive on July 4, 1975. Since…

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Canadian court’s support for not working on the Sabbath

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 July 1982 · page 11

TORONTO: A Toronto mattress manufacturing firm which fired an Orthodox Jew because he refused to work Saturdays has been found…

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Family Court official fears "passive power"

Tribune · Wednesday 28 July 1982 · page 3

SYDNEY: An official of the Family Court recently sent a letter to all unions soliciting "workers' opinions,, especially…

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Court counsellor and domestic violence

Tribune · Wednesday 4 August 1982 · page 11

SYDNEY: The Women's Council of the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) will complain to the Family Court…

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Service prize for helping the NSW Mounted Police

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 August 1982 · page 18

One warm summer day Lyn Isaacs glanced out of her office window overlooking Martin Place and saw members of the Mounted Police Section performing ceremonial duties…

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Rank & file BLF goes for court ballot

Tribune · Wednesday 11 August 1982 · page 5

SYDNEY: What is expected to be a stormy monthly meeting of the NSW branch of the Builders Laborers Federation (BLF) is…

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Murder in the Mist Sitting Ducks

Tharunka · Tuesday 31 August 1982 · page 24

SITTING DUCKS Sitting Ducks can best be described as a movie about America’s three primary…

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Games Murder “Vigil”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 September 1982 · page 22

A candle-light vigil to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre will be…

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Court rejects Cabinet decision to ban El Al flights on the Sabbath

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 September 1982 · page 1

TEL AVIV: Israel’s supreme court has reversed a government decision to ban Ei Al flights on Shabbat and Jewish holydays. The decision, announced on…

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Campaign provokes murder contract

Tribune · Wednesday 15 September 1982 · page 5

SYDNEY: A trade union official has been told a contract for his death has been issued following his union's investigation of cash-in-hand payments in the roofing industry…

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Court ballots

Tribune · Wednesday 15 September 1982 · page 14

Although there is not to be a court ballot after all for the NSW branch of the BLF, in view of the opinions already expressed I would like to…

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Marcos on murder charge

Tribune · Wednesday 29 September 1982 · page 7

USA: Filipino dictator Marcos, who was warmly greeted by Reagan last week on an official visit to the USA, was named in a…

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E. Timor in World Court

Tribune · Wednesday 29 September 1982 · page 7

East Timor: The question of Indonesia's illegal occupation of East Timor will be referred to the International Court of Justice in…

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Police move against Blacks while Fraser does nothing

Tribune · Wednesday 6 October 1982 · page 3

Aboriginal protesters camped at Musgrave Park voted last Monday to present Fraser with an ultimatum. The Blacks demanded the federal government take control of Queensland Aboriginal reserves, to implement the spirit of the 1967 referendum which gave…

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NCC split ends in court

Tribune · Wednesday 13 October 1982 · page 3

A long-standing faction fight in the National Civic Council (NCC) erupted last Friday when five top NCC officials lodged a writ in the Victorian Supreme Court claiming wrongful dismissal by NCC president B A Santamaria…

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Court-controlled ballot for NCC

Tribune · Wednesday 27 October 1982 · page 6

MELBOURNE: Victorian Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Beach, found last Thursday that five former officials of the National Civic Council (NCC) had made out a prima facie case that the NCC executive had not been validly elected…

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Police Want Information

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 December 1982 · page 3

Police are seeking the owner of a silver-plated cigar box presented to Rev Phillip Phillipstein by the Sydney Jewish Sabbath School in December, 1907…

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Two years to 1984 A nuclear police state

Tribune · Wednesday 15 December 1982 · page 6

The nuclear state -- for us in Australia the term is little more than a political slogan or abstract phrase. But in Germany the last ten years have seen the development of an increasingly advanced nuclear police state…

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