Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1983

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

ABORIGINES Massive police attack on Black community

Tribune · Wednesday 9 November 1983 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police used alsatian dogs, batons and their fists to attack Aborigines, some of whom were dragged from their…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Iron Ore Pilbara peace plan: ball is now in bosses' court

Tribune · Wednesday 23 November 1983 · page 4

PERTH: Moves towards the peace package for the industrially troubled Pilbara iron ore mining area of north-west Western Australia now depend on some commitment to the package from employers…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Murder Suspect

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 November 1983 · page 35

SHEFFIELD: Arthur Hutchinson, 42, was formally charged at Sheffield magistrates’ court last…

Continued on Trove, page 35 →

Secret Police The Sheraton raid: Training for murder and mayhem abroad

Tribune · Wednesday 7 December 1983 · page 3

The farcical -- yet sinister -- events in Melbourne's Sheraton Hotel from 8.35 pm on November 30 raise many questions which are never likely to be answered, particularly as they are being investigated by the Hope…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

POLICE Victorian police destroy political files and undermine reform law

Tribune · Wednesday 7 December 1983 · page 2

MELBOURNE: The Victorian police are undermining the Cain government's Freedom of Information (FOI) Act by destroying files on political activists and organisations compiled by the now-disbanded Special…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Murder Graves Daubed

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 December 1983 · page 24

LONDON: Vandals have desecrated the graves of three members of a Jewish family murdered…

Continued on Trove, page 24 →

Roebourne inquest: chilling accounts of Police brutality

Tribune · Wednesday 14 December 1983 · page 16

by a special correspondent who has been involved in the WA Aboriginal land rights movement for some years…

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

London cabbie charged with 4 US murders

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 December 1983 · page 11

LOS ANGELES: A London cab driver has been charged with murdering six members of two families who disappeared from…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →