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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1981

8 stories in Sydney's papers

Fire traps

Tribune · Wednesday 11 March 1981 · page 7

Melbourne: Lack of fire protection is making some government buildings death traps, shadow public works…

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Victoria Fire Fighters to Blockade Parl T.

Tribune · Wednesday 25 March 1981 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Metropolitan firefighters will blockade state parliament unless they receive a satisfactory result to their…

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Israel ‘holding fire' on Lebanon fighting

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 April 1981 · page 1

JERUSALEM: Deeply concerned though Israel is at the continuing attacks on Christian strongholds in Lebanon by the Syrian Army — the so-called “peace-keeping force” — the Israeli Government has nevertheless adopted a wait-and-see attitude…

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Britain's streets blaze with the Fires of discontent

Tribune · Wednesday 15 July 1981 · page 3

For two weeks, the streets of Britain's "ghettos of the poor" have flared into violence of a sort usually associated with less "stable" countries. CS riot gas has been used for the first time in Britain, and plastic bullets…

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Appeal to replace fire-ravaged JNF forests 30 years growth up in smoke

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 July 1981 · page 3

Australian Jewry has been asked to join in a world-wide appeal by the Jewish National Fund for funds to replace trees…

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Protest over fire union staff sacking

Tribune · Wednesday 23 September 1981 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Rank-and-file members of the United Firefighters Union picketed the union office last week over the…

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burning carts Chariots of Fire

Tharunka · Wednesday 30 September 1981 · page 31

In 1919, the world was probably filled with many young, idealistic men striving to accomplish something of overpowering…

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Fire damages hall at Maroubra shule

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 November 1981 · page 3

A wedding reception planned for the Kingsford Maroubra Synagogue Hall on Sunday afternoon was…

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