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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1974

14 stories in Sydney's papers

Wheat to the Arabs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1974 · page 4

The Australian Government not only concedes the Egyptian Government wheat, but it will now attempt to “hurry up”…

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Entertainment Scene Sjt’s Animal Farm

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1974 · page 16

There are more rotes for "animals" than for human characters in the Sydney Jewish Theatre's next production: Andre Obey's "Noah"…

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Fire Board Refuses Wool Land Site Big Fire Threat Council must look further

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 26 February 1974 · page 1

The Board of Fire Commissioners has refused to enter into discussions about building the proposed new fire station on Wool Board land, at Yennora. This follows a sugges…

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Frank’s meat is now farm fresh Prices lower

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 2 April 1974 · page 7

Frank’s Butchery is offering a straight-from-the-farm-to-customer price for meat, cutting out the middleman’s profit. For Frank’s Butchery in Merrylands Mali is just one of…

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De 'Pastoral Holland' tentoonstelling nu ook in Sydney

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 3 May 1974 · page 3

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United Farmworkers

Tribune · Tuesday 21 May 1974 · page 8

It used to be said of the President of the. United Automobile Workers - "When he sneezes the U.S. motor industry gets a cold in the head!" But anytime the United Farm Workers, led by the militant Cesar Chavez, fails to renew or improve the contracts between the big farm owners and the Chicano (Mexican)…

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Workers Ban Wheat for Chile

Tribune · Tuesday 28 May 1974 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: Two ships chartered to carry wheat to Chile are being held up in Newcastle harbour by union bans. The bans are in protest at the savage…

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Nieuwe brug over de Wool bij Tiel voor verkeer opengesteld

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 21 June 1974 · page 3

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Fun at the farm in aid of charity

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 16 July 1974 · page 7

Butterfly Farm, Wilberforce, berforce will put on a festival of fun weekend for charity with the…

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Butterfly Farm fun

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 23 July 1974 · page 5

Butterfly Farm. Wilberforce, will stage a festival of fun weekend for charity with the theme The Farm Turns it On…

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Worker-farmer Unity

Tribune · Tuesday 10 September 1974 · page 11

The letter from K. & K.P. (Tribune, August 27) prompts me to write as I also live in the country. I also watched the Four Corners program…

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Worker-farmer Front

Tribune · Tuesday 17 September 1974 · page 11

The League of Rights, Country Party and Liberals have been organising mass, anti-union rallies throughout rural NSW. I went to the rally here at Grenfell…

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farmers and workers - similar problems

Tribune · Tuesday 29 October 1974 · page 3

MELBOURNE: "Getting to know the problems of the small farmer was a real eye-opener for me, an active trade unionist," Vic Marks told Tribune last…

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A Farmer Speaks Out

Tribune · Tuesday 12 November 1974 · page 5

Don Syme could be your average farmer. In age he is that exactly. At 52 years old he is spot on the average age of Australia's 200,000 farmers…

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