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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1985

94 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5

Roebourne police let off again

Tribune · Wednesday 22 May 1985 · page 15

ROEBOURNE: Once again police here have escaped prosecution for assaulting Aborigines. Magistrate…

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QUEENSLAND Qld police raid abortion clinics

Tribune · Wednesday 22 May 1985 · page 3

Last Monday Queensland police raided two abortion clinics, the Fertility Control Clinic at Greenslopes, and the…

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Britain Cpgb confronts Thatcher's 'populist assault'

Tribune · Wednesday 29 May 1985 · page 6

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has taken the first necessary steps towards rebuilding itself…

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Court explains why it let Kahane run in 1984 election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 May 1985 · page 8

More than 10 months after upholding the right of Meir Kahane’s Kach and the leftist Progressive List for Peace to run in last July’s Knesset…

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Supreme Court Justice Dr. Moshe Bejski, Chairman, Committee for the Righteous Among the Nations ‘A beacon shining through the dark period’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 May 1985 · page 7

JERUSALEM, the eternal city, is built hill upon hill. And every hill has an historical link with the saga of the Jewish people…

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WA police on the attack

Tribune · Wednesday 5 June 1985 · page 15

PERTH: John Doohan (best known for work with the Human Rights Civil Liberties Watch Committee) and other members…

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Ladies of the court get a new champion

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 June 1985 · page 14

TEL AVIV. - Freddie Krivine, the Israel Tennis Association’s newlyappointed first Director of Women's Tennis, aims at getting at least two…

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Army chief says 8 ex-PoWs deserved court-martial

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 June 1985 · page 4

TEL AVIV. - Chief of General Staff Rav-Aluf Moshe Levy said last week that he would have courtmartialled the eight soldiers…

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Business and Finance Steps to expand export of anti-theft devices to U.S.

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 June 1985 · page 21

TEL AVIV. - A “professional attempt” to break into the huge American market of anti-theft devices was made last week by a…

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Revisionists cleared of all suspicion after 52 years Inquiry rules on Arlosoroff murder

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 June 1985 · page 4

The Commission of Inquiry into the 1933 murder of Haim Arlosoroff, a leading leftist political figure, issued its report last week and…

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Special rabbinical court set up for Ethiopian Jews’ problems

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 June 1985 · page 8

The Chief Rabbinical Council is expected to set up a special Beit Din (rabbinical court) to deal with the marriages of Ethiopian Jews and…

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Peace editors sentenced to jail

Tribune · Wednesday 3 July 1985 · page 6

OSLO: Seven editors of Ikkevold, a Norwegian peace magazine, have been found guilty of disclosing…

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BOOKS Meat is murder

Tribune · Wednesday 3 July 1985 · page 11

In Defence of Animals, edited by Peter Singer. Published by Basil Blackwell, 1985, 224 pgs, $9.95. Reviewed by Phil…

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Ship’s captain charged with dumping African stowaway

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 July 1985 · page 7

HAIFA (Itim). - An Israeli ship’s captain, accused of putting an African stowaway overboard in sharkinfested seas off the African coast in…

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Murder confession

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 July 1985 · page 7

Two Arabs who confessed to the murder of a Jewish couple, Meir Ben-Yair and Michal Cohen, are in custody, and houses belonging to…

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Court hears‘extenuating’ testimony

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 July 1985 · page 10

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Rehavam Ze’evi last week unleashed an attack on the policies of former defence minister Ezer Weizman on the West Bank…

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Three are convicted of murder; sentences to be passed later Guilty verdicts in trial of Jewish underground men

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 July 1985 · page 10

Fifteen members of the Jewish terror underground were convicted in Jerusalem last week on charges ranging from murder to membership…

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Trade Practices Act Court hues meatworkers union -- assets to be seized

Tribune · Wednesday 24 July 1985 · page 5

The meat workers union (AMIEU) will hold a 24-hour national stoppage in all abattoirs to protest at the handing down…

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Theft gains are taxable

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 July 1985 · page 22

TEL AVIV (Itim). - The claim that proceeds from theft and burglary do not have to be declared for tax purposes was rejected last week by…

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Police violence alleged

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 July 1985 · page 6

The alleged beating of a news photographer by Tel Aviv police last week led to a motion in the Knesset on the subject of police brutality and…

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