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Courts & crime, 1987

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Supreme Court ruling in damage claim ‘Strikers can be sued’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 August 1987 · page 20

HAIFA. - In a precedent-setting judgment, the Supreme Court last month ruled that third parties who are harmed by a strike may in some…

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FORUM Two critiques of the High Court judgment voiding the Broadcasting Authority's ban on Meir Kahane's racist views No gain for freedom

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 August 1987 · page 10

THE HIGH COURT, led by Justice Aharon Barak, last month delivered a ringing and eloquent opinion on behalf of freedom of speech in Israel…

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Two Israelis charged in Britain’s biggest-ever robbery

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 August 1987 · page 5

LONDON. - Two Israelis on Thursday were charged with involvement in Britain’s biggest-ever robbery, in which £30 million worth of cash and…

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COMMENT French police savagery in Noumea

Tribune · Wednesday 26 August 1987 · page 6

The sheer brutality of the assault by French riot police on several hundred peaceful Kanak demonstrators sitting down in a…

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Supreme Court Decision

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 August 1987 · page 23

Sir, - In a society where the virtues of democracy are so extolled, I find a glaring inconsistency in the manner in which Israeli media regulate…

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Arms cache belonged to PLO, London court told

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 August 1987 · page 5

LONDON. - The massive Arab arms cache discovered by police in a Hull apartment was collected by the Palestine Liberation Organization, a…

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Dutch View of Wartime Years The Assault (De Aanslag) Penguin Paper Backs RRP $7.95 reviewed by Renee Bittoun

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 September 1987 · page 14

It is unusual for those outside of the Dutchspeaking community to glimpse life in Holland during the war. Little fiction is available…

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CORRUPTION Police diligence-- Qld style

Tribune · Wednesday 9 September 1987 · page 3

BRISBANE: The Queensland government has been very successful to date in distancing itself from the rampant…

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Anyone for tennis? Wet weather no bar to court ceremony

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 September 1987 · page 24

The tenure of Sydney Maccabi Tennis Club’s courts in Wellington Street, Bondi, is assured, Mayor of Waverley…

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Go Back for Murder Geneslan Theatre

Tharunka · Monday 14 September 1987 · page 25

I am sorry to say that I found this a very dated and ‘corny’ play. The Geneslan Company were as professional as ever, but I think they made an error of Judgement in deciding to…

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Snippets Queensland Condom Police

Tharunka · Monday 14 September 1987 · page 14

Like something out of a comedy musical, uniformed police stormed Townsville’s James Cook University in the wee hours of the morning and…

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Court sets NIS 10m. bail in probe of Hackmeys

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 23 September 1987 · page 9

TEL AVIV (Itim).- Phoenix Assurance Co. executives Yossie and David Hackmey were released on NIS 10 million bail and ordered not to…

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A spy in Mea She’arim Abraham Rabinovich talks to a man who was a police undercover agent in an ultra-Orthodox seminary

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 7 October 1987 · page 11

“THE POLICE can never plant an agent in Mea She’arim,” said the zealot leader to a reporter several years ago. “Everyone here…

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Police Watch

Tharunka · Monday 12 October 1987 · page 10

It's been a long time since the March 23rd occupation of the Education Department in Goulbourn St. Complaints of police brutality at the time have…

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HEALTH Police break up nurses' meetings

Tribune · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 5

Victorian police last week broke up two nurses' stopwork meetings and arrested two union officials at a private hospital in…

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Capable, confident and controversial: Marcus Einfeld moves on to a new phase as Federal Court judge and head of the newly formed Human Rights Commission

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 12

For the past 20 years Marcus Einfeld, 48, has been a controversial figure in the Jewish community. From his student days at Sydney University, Einfeld rose to become one of Australia’s most prominent QCs before last year being appointed to the…

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Reflections on a murder David Rudge visits the kibbutz of Alexander Arad, who was knifed to death by a terrorist two weeks ago, and finds that the harmony between the members and Arab neighbours has not been impaired

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 14 October 1987 · page 7

THE GROUP of Arab labourers sat at their respective tables in the large dining room, eating and talking quietly surrounded by dozens of…

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Children in court

Tribune · Wednesday 21 October 1987 · page 16

SYDNEY: Last week, the NSW government announced reforms to sexual assault legislation following recommendations…

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High Court restores full immunity to MK Mi’ari

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 October 1987 · page 6

The High Court of Justice, by a 3-2 majority, last week ordered the restoration of full parliamentary immunity to Progressive List for Peace MK Muhammed Mi’ari. The…

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Leningrad murder raises anti-semitism fear

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 November 1987 · page 5

The mysterious murder of a Leningrad Jew has removed an inspirational fighter for Jewish rights from the Jewish activist community there, according to an Israeli Reform rabbi who has just…

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