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Courts & crime, 1983

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

Supreme Court wants marriages recognised Judges back Liberal rabbinate request

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 9

JERUSALEM: Deputy-President of the Supreme Court Meir Shamgar has proposed that authorised Reform rabbis should be allowed to conduct wedding services in Israel while leaving the verification of the rights of the couple to marry and the registration procedures in the hands of the…

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News roundup Three for trial over Moree murder

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1983 · page 15

MOREE (North-western NSW): Three white men arrested after Aborigine, Ronald Mcintosh, was shot dead last November,…

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Canadian police attack anti-war movement

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1983 · page 7

CANADA: Police have arrested anti-war activists and raided movement offices following protests at the Litton System's…

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Police pull down NSW tent embassy

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1983 · page 15

SYDNEY: Police arrested seven Aborigines on Australia Day (January 26) and pulled down a tent embassy they were trying to…

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Police charge man for Hakoah Club bomb blast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 February 1983 · page 1

Police on Tuesday charged a 32-year-old Rockdale man at Waverley Court for having set an explosive device which triggered off the bomb blast at the Hakoah Club on December 23. The man was one of six…

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Police crackdown on school parking

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 February 1983 · page 6

Waverley Police Traffic Branch has called on Jewish parents to obey parking regulations, particularly outside the Jewish dayschools “in the interests of child safety”…

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NZ police crack down on Waitangi protests

Tribune · Wednesday 2 March 1983 · page 7

NEW ZEALAND: This year's celebration of the English annexation of New Zealand has been marked by stepped-up…

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A brutal murder

Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1983 · page 12

The plot: Three women, having never met before, spontaneously and brutally murder the proprietor of a women's boutique. They are apprehended and a woman psychiatrist is appointed to determine their sanity…

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European Police Arrest Anti-semitic Terrorists

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1983 · page 11

PARIS: West German, British and French police forces are co-operating in investigating a series of murderous anti-semitic attacks believed carried out by a gang of German…

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World Jewish Scene Us Court rules Jewish marriage paper “legal”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 March 1983 · page 10

NEW YORK: The New York State Court of Appeal, the State’s highest court, has ruled that ketubot (Jewish marriage certificates) are binding civil contracts as well as religious covenants…

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A Gaol poet describes punishment sections: at Goulburn

Tharunka · Monday 21 March 1983 · page 15

The Front yards, Circle, Tracks and Pound, I wish they burn them to the The Pain the Flogging the Bashing they sheltered, While the screws laughed on we were belted,…

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Court in the Wilderness

Tharunka · Monday 21 March 1983 · page 12

The Labor victory left me with a strange feeling of emptiness. Only days before, I was caught up in the most widely publiziced social issue of…

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Israeli Police Capture Massive Drug Haul

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 March 1983 · page 12

TEL AVIV: A large force of detectives waited at Tel Aviv’s Diplomat Hotel last week to ambush the buyers of a large haul of hashish…

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Blacks outraged over release of man accused of murder

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1983 · page 2

ALICE SPRINGS: Aboriginal people in Central Australia are outraged that yet another white charged with murdering a Black has gone free. Alan Ross, charged with murdering Aboriginal stockman…

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Lou Rose Elected to 12th Court of Honor

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 March 1983 · page 24

Lou Rose, one of Australia’s leading Jewish sports administrators, has been named deputy chairman of the Court of…

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Magazine Police report on Nugan Hand Nugan Bank -- deep in CIA network and arms trading

Tribune · Wednesday 13 April 1983 · page 11

The recent report of the joint Commonwealth-NSW police task force on Nugan Hand contains new evidence of the bank's Wide connections with former top CIA officers, and involvement in arms deals…

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Police, prejudice and corruption The Chinese Detective, a Bbc Tv series. Showing on Abc Tv, Mondays at 9 pm. Reviewed by

Tribune · Wednesday 13 April 1983 · page 12

There have been easier tasks in the world of television than following a successful series like "Minder"…

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Police at Gay Bars

Tharunka · Monday 18 April 1983 · page 32

The Sydney Clay Community is up in arms over the recent raids by the NSW Police of the Gay Bar known as Club 80 situated in Oxford Street,…

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PLO accuses Israel over Sartawi murder

Tribune · Wednesday 20 April 1983 · page 7

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) last week mourned the assassination of Dr Issam Sartawi, who was…

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Unions alarmed at court sanction of 4-day week

Tribune · Wednesday 27 April 1983 · page 4

SYDNEY: Unionists have reacted with alarm to the Arbitration Commission's judgment last week legalising the…

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