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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 2001

63 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4

police powers and racism

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 August 2001 · page 8

Between 71% and 83% of the 7 500 full time NSW prisoners are incarcerated for drug related crimes. Drug prohibitions policies are incarcerating an ever increasing number of poor and indigenous people, and women. 70 - 90% of women in prison…

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International Ecstasy ring smashed by police

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 August 2001 · page 12

JERUSALEM — An Ecstasy-smuggling ring has been cracked by the Israel Police, in collaboration with its counterparts in the US and Europe…

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Two rabbis sentenced

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 2001 · page 12

NEW YORK — Two New York City rabbis were sentenced to nearly three years in prison for embezzling $US2.5 ($A4.83) million meant…

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Tanks destroy Jenin police station IDF moves in on Beit Jala

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 August 2001 · page 10

JERUSALEM — IDF troops moved into Beit Jala, Beit Sahur and Bethlehem just before midnight on Tuesday, following a day of heavy firing at…

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The legalisation of corporate crime Skasey's wholesale vilification quite remarkable because most of the time stealing from workers is not illegal let alone frowned upon in Australia, writes Amanada Tattersall. Polemic

The Chaser · Thursday 23 August 2001 · page 16

Enough all ready! When are all the pundits going to shut up about how evil Christopher Skase was and…

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Murder in Kishnev!

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 August 2001 · page 35

In 1903 it seemed nothing could get worse, but it did, when Russian peasants rose against the Jews of Kishnev. The fight lasted two full days, 47 Jews were killed, hundreds…

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Jury selection begins in rabbi’s murder trial

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 August 2001 · page 14

NEW YORK — Jury selection began in the New Jersey trial of a rabbi who allegedly arranged his wife’s death. Fred Neulander…

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Police reinstate Roger Rogerson "to bring crime back under our control"

The Chaser · Wednesday 29 August 2001 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: NSW Police Commissioner Ryan has unveiled a radical new step in the increasingly hysterical fight…

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Feature Change of pace After 15 years on the Federal Court bench, Justice Marcus Einfeld has stepped down. He spoke to Chantal Abitbol about his past — and his future

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 31 August 2001 · page 15

IN court, his shrewd diplomacy and razor-sharp intellect caused him to be known colloquially as Justice Minefield…

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Antisemitic assault at party: Police response criticised

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 September 2001 · page 3

POLICE have been criticised for their handling of an antisemitic incident at a party in Rose Bay in which a Moriah College Year 10…

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In court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 28 September 2001 · page 2

JEWS for Jesus are in trouble again, and this time they’ve been taken to court by one of America’s oldest…

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Sharon, son, face police probe

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 October 2001 · page 1

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may face criminal investigations over illegal funding of the election campaign which…

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The biggest theft in history Title: Pack of Thieves Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson /Phoenix Paperbacks 336 pages, $59.95 (hb) $22.95 (pb)

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 5 October 2001 · page 22

THIS fascinating, albeit emotionally disturbing, account of the looting and plundering of European Jewry during World War II and the Holocaust is…

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Tour de France 2002: le parcours le plus court

Le Courrier Australien · Thursday 1 November 2001 · page 35

Le Tour de France2002sera le plus court de son histoire quasi-ce naire, dudépmàLuxembourgteôjuilletjusqu'àl'arrivéeàPaiis l juillet…

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News More police needed to deter racist attacks - MP

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 2 November 2001 · page 3

THERE aren’t enough police in the eastern suburbs to deter the kind of people who set a car ablaze and sprayed Koranic verses in Arabic in a Vaucluse street recently, State MP…

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One Nation accuses Libs of stealing its lack of policies

The Chaser · Thursday 22 November 2001 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday: Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party has accused John Howard of stealing its lack of a platform in the recent Federal Election. The party says that the Liberals directly copied its 1998…

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Manly police raving over record ecstacy seizure

The Chaser · Thursday 22 November 2001 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Law enforcement officers in Manly are on top of the world after cracking one of Australia's biggest drug…

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Gifts from police

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 November 2001 · page 16

JERUSALEM — Israeli police are handing out chocolate eggs to children in the West Bank town of Hebron…

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Tennis player’s off-court generosity

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 November 2001 · page 5

WORLD-ranked Russian tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikov may not have won last week’s Masters Cup at Homebush (Lleyton Hewitt did), but he did something greater…

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Ecstasy: Israeli in court

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 30 November 2001 · page 5

AN Israeli man alleged to be the mastermind behind an $80 million shipment of ecstasy (MDMA) appeared in Sydney Central Court this week, facing extradition to Holland…

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