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Courts & crime, 1984

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Mail Theft

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 May 1984 · page 21

The Australian Jewish Times has been informed that mail addressed to its office in Darlinghurst Road was included in a batch stolen on Monday, May 14, 1984. Clients of the Australian Jewish Times who posted mail…

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POLICE The secret police and the Ananda Marga

Tribune · Wednesday 23 May 1984 · page 3

SYDNEY: The spiritual director of Ananda Marga, "Dada", continues his protest fast against the jailing of the…

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Wai Aborigines Police acquitted, Aborigines charged

Tribune · Wednesday 30 May 1984 · page 2

ROEBOURNE: "People walked away from the case scot-free and not even a charge of assault against them. And the case…

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Secret Police Evans to rein in ASIO

Tribune · Wednesday 30 May 1984 · page 7

The federal government intends to limit ASIO powers, Attorney-General Senator Gareth Evans told the…

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News All-white Jury ACQUlTS Police of Murder

Tharunka · Tuesday 5 June 1984 · page 5

On September 28 last year, John Pat, a young Aboriginal man of 17, was murdered by five off-duty cops in the Western Australian town of Roebourne,…

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Israel court’s approval for street demos. This Week in Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 June 1984 · page 8

JERUSALEM: In a ruling of constitutional significance, the High Court of Justice last week upheld the right of demonstration and stressed that the existence of a hostile crowd should not be allowed to prevent people from…

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ABORIGINES Anti-landrights alliance launches assault on new law

Tribune · Wednesday 13 June 1984 · page 12

The federal opposition appears determined to make landrights a hot issue in the coming federal election…

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WA Black communities demand removal of Roebourne police

Tribune · Wednesday 13 June 1984 · page 15

PERTH: WA Blacks are not prepared to let the John Pat case rest with the acquittal of the police involved in his death, and…

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Readers' Say Police state

Tribune · Wednesday 20 June 1984 · page 13

Arthur Scargill and his fellow workers are facing the united fury of the Tory state. Arthur says: Britain is like a South American police…

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HEALTH Unions support Medicare against doctors' assault

Tribune · Wednesday 27 June 1984 · page 5

SYDNEY: The union movement last week threw its whole weight behind Medicare and against the current organised assault led by the upper echelons of NSW doctors…

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Secret Police Spooks at work -- ASIO agents named

Tribune · Wednesday 27 June 1984 · page 2

Laurie Aarons exposes ASIO's alleged "new direction" and, despite sanctions against naming ASIO members (sanctions…

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Secret Police Combe affair "should never be put to rest"

Tribune · Wednesday 27 June 1984 · page 16

A crowd of one hundred people braved inclement weather last week to attend the Sydney launching of Laurie Aarons' book, The…

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Another welfare theft: safe rifled

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 July 1984 · page 1

Thieves broke into the offices of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society (AJWS)…

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Alleged Murder in the Vatican -- Cia Link

Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1984 · page 8

The Vatican has, in recent years, been the centre of a series of interlocking scandals which have shaken Italian politics…

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BRITAIN British miners battle 1984 police state

Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1984 · page 5

Two British miners, Malcolm Pitt, Kent regional president of the NUM, and Austin Fairest, Derbyshire…

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Secret Police Asio bars leftwing public servant from job

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1984 · page 12

The sweeping powers of the Fraser government's ASIO Act have been used to forcibly transfer a federal…

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LAW The trauma of the divorce court

Tribune · Wednesday 1 August 1984 · page 12

The tragic death of Pearl Watson, wife of Family Law Court Judge Justice Watson, following a bomb…

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West Germany Hamburg police & CIA co-ordinate efforts

Tribune · Wednesday 8 August 1984 · page 6

The CIA and its counterparts in the N A I O countries are intensifying the co-ordination of intelligence…

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world in FOCUS Ulster police attack Republican rally

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1984 · page 6

Last Sunday's brutal police attack on a peaceful Republican rally has stirred a wave of rioting and demonstrations throughout…

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Melbourne police investigate NZ bombing

Tribune · Wednesday 22 August 1984 · page 15

SYDNEY: Police in Melbourne flare investigating aspects of last March's bombing of the Wellington Trades Hall in New…

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