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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1977

14 stories in Sydney's papers

School Fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 January 1977 · page 6

ISTANBUL: The 130-year-old Jewish primary school in Izmir, the second largest Jewish centre in…

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School Fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 January 1977 · page 6

ISTANBUL: The 130-year-old Jewish primary school in Izmir, the second largest Jewish centre in Turkey, has been destroyed by fire. The two-storey building,…

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Electricity Commission blamed for fires

Tribune · Wednesday 23 February 1977 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Victoria's State Electricity Commission has copped another…

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Fire damages synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 March 1977 · page 1

Last Friday fire destroyed one of the heavy panelled doors of the Great Synagogue. The Arson Squad of the Police are investigating. The door, at the…

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God Escapes ! great balls of fire !!!

Tharunka · Monday 6 June 1977 · page 9

(This includes all materialists, marxists, gurus and humanists). George Porter, a Nobel prize winner, claims, 'The religion of…

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Unions Call for Inquiry on Lucas Heights Fire

Tribune · Wednesday 8 June 1977 · page 11

WOLLONGONG: The burning of the anti-uranium camp at Lucas Heights may have been…

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Dunk unable to ‘fire’

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 30 August 1977 · page 1

CHAMPION golfer, Bill Dunk, hits off in the PGA Golf Championship at Cumberland Golf Course, Greystanes, last…

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Jewish comedy on “Fire Sale”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 September 1977 · page 18

The hilarious adventures of a “crazy” Jewish family at odds with each other and the world at large are the features of a new comedy film which begins its Sydney season at the Hoyts Entertainment…

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Fire at Yeshiva

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 October 1977 · page 3

Last Saturday afternoon fire broke out in the building housing the classrooms of Yeshiva…

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Earth and fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 October 1977 · page 22

At the Macquarie Galleries, the paintings of Ross Mellick and the pottery of Col Levy bear compatible comparison. An easy co-existence is…

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South African Student Press Under Fire!

Tharunka · Monday 31 October 1977 · page 8

Fraternal student newspapers in South Africa have been coming under increasing pressure from the racist Vorster Government whenever they have attempted to publish anti-apartheid pro-black articles. The Government has arrested several student paper editors. It has stopped distribution of their newspapers. Below we reprint the South African student press'…

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Industrial News Burnt-out car exposes building unions' baffle

Tribune · Wednesday 30 November 1977 · page 4

SYDNEY: A Builders Laborers organiser has admitted carrying around membership cards for another union. A large bundle of membership application cards for…

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Out of the frying pan and into the fire

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 13 December 1977 · page 2

ROY HAMBLY knows the meaning of the old saying "out of the frying pan and into the fire." Mr Hambly was being wheeled to a hospital…

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Camps safe from bushfire danger

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 December 1977 · page 3

Parents need not worry about their children attending the Betar camp in Katoomba. According to police, bushfires have been in the…

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