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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1984

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

backblocks Blacks and police battle in WA town

Tribune · Wednesday 25 January 1984 · page 15

PERTH: The issue of segregated pubs came to a head recently when Aborigines, and police fought a street battle in…

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Police phone taps reveal Explosive scandal

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1984 · page 2

SYDNEY: The hundreds of pages of transcripts and the tapes of tapped phone conversations involving a…

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Union Election Rightwing group goes to court to stop union Paper

Tribune · Wednesday 8 February 1984 · page 4

SYDNEY: The rightwing campaign in the current ballot for a national position and several Queensland state positions in the metal workers union (AMFSU) escalated…

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Secret Police Protest against Hilton bombing 'frame up"

Tribune · Wednesday 15 February 1984 · page 3

About 30 people demonstrated outside the NSW Police Department on Monday, calling for the release of three members of the Ananda Marga sect -- Tim Anderson, Paul Alister and Ross Dunn. They allege that the three were "framed…

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backblocks Five police to stand trial for Roebourne death

Tribune · Wednesday 15 February 1984 · page 15

PERTH: Five police will be tried for the manslaughter, following the inquest into the death last year of 16 year old Aboriginal…

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Secret Police a life in the day of "The demonstrator"

Tribune · Wednesday 22 February 1984 · page 14

It was with some trepidation recently that I opened a large parcel from the Australian Federal Police. I became even…

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Gets from the court

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 February 1984 · page 25

TORONTO: Canadian Jewish women are increasingly using the civil courts to bring pressure to bear on men who make difficulties about giving their estranged wives a Get (bill of divorcement)…

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BACKGROUND Court action likely after council rejects TES plan

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 February 1984 · page 5

The Emanuel School (TES), which was established last year with a full K-6 program, has already doubled its enrolments. The school intends adding an additional scholastic…

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INDONESIA Death squads murder over 8,000 in Java

Tribune · Wednesday 29 February 1984 · page 6

INDONESIA: Death squads, composed of army security officers in plain clothes, murdered at least 8,500 people in…

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CRIME Murder -- and the logic of domestic violence

Tribune · Wednesday 7 March 1984 · page 2

A suppressed government report on domestic violence should be released immediately, say a number of Tasmanian…

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Backhanded support for WA police stand

Tribune · Wednesday 7 March 1984 · page 15

PERTH: Last week, a meeting of about 400 police officers voted for a commission to examine the Aboriginal legal…

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BOOKS Police: the answer is not more powers

Tribune · Wednesday 21 March 1984 · page 11

Police Powers and Politics by Robert Baldwin and Richard Kinsey, Quartet, 1982. Reviewed by Phil Escott…

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INDIA Police massacre follows strikes in India

Tribune · Wednesday 28 March 1984 · page 6

An upsurge of strikes and massacres by police are going hand in hand across India this year. In the…

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Court Order

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 April 1984 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A barrister has succeeded in gaining a Federal Court consent order restraining…

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Supreme Court acts on custody hearing

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 April 1984 · page 11

TEL AVIV: Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned the judgment of a rabbinical court, which sought to remove two children from their mother’s care…

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Do You Measure Up? Police Academy: Crass, Mass Humour

Tharunka · Tuesday 1 May 1984 · page 22

Obviously the obese boy in the scarlet windcheater and baseball cap sitting beside us gorging on his Macdonalds hamburger and double-vanilla choc-coated cone was in his…

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Court Drama

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 May 1984 · page 11

HAIFA: Deputy Knesset speaker Meir Cohen-Avidov tried to force his way past police guards to get at the…

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Secret Police Who are the real "subversives" --CPA asks

Tribune · Wednesday 16 May 1984 · page 16

"I spy with my li'l eye something beginning with... A(sio)-- C(PA)-- S(ubversion)". In multiple choice…

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Further allegations of police attacks in WA --Roebourne and Lockridge

Tribune · Wednesday 16 May 1984 · page 2

A sixteen year old Aboriginal, John Pat, who died in the Roebourne police cells last year had been subjected to a…

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Mail Theft

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 May 1984 · page 14

The Australian Jewish Times has been informed that mail addressed to its office in Darlinghurst…

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