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Floods & storms, 1969

15 stories in Sydney's papers

Storm Over Rates Charge for Aged

Tribune · Wednesday 22 January 1969 · page 10

WOLLONGONG (NSW): The Wollongong City Council has brought on itself a storm of protest by deciding to make pensioners pay rates and (hitting at those at the other end of the age range) to charge admission to swimming pools…

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New storm on conscription law Young Leafleters in Crimes Act Net

Tribune · Wednesday 5 February 1969 · page 1

CRIMES Act charges have been laid against at least 11 of the more than 20 young people arrested in a continuing demonstration over the past two weeks at Melbourne's General Post Office against conscription and the Vietnam war. Two of the Crimes Act charges were laid on January 25 and nine on February 2…

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Cyclone Sur La Nouvelle-caledonie

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 7 February 1969 · page 1

Dimanche dernier un violent baptisé "Coline" par la météo, s'est abattu sur la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Sa course, allant du nord au sud, provenait des îles Salomon…

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Flood damage in Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 February 1969 · page 4

HAIFA: Hundreds of families were evacuated from their homes and thousands of acres of crops, and fruit plantations…

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Le Cyclone Neo-caledonien Evoque Au Conseil Des Ministres

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 14 February 1969 · page 1

A U le S février à l'Elysée sous la présidence du Général de Gaulle, le secrétaire chargé des départements et territoires…

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Storm Over Rabbinical Assembly's "Responsum"

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 April 1969 · page 6

NEW YORK: Orthodox rabbinical and congregational organisations in America, joined by the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Isser Unterman, are in full cry against the Rabbinical Assembly…

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Anti-flood Scheme Goes Down Drain

Tribune · Wednesday 23 April 1969 · page 10

NEWCASTLE: In the interests of farmers and the community and of workers' jobs, trade unions are calling for adequate Federal and State finance to press on with a Hunter flood mitigation project in the Maitland area…

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Flooded

The Biz · Thursday 24 April 1969 · page 1

ABOVE: With "water, water everywhere" last week, nine-year-old Barry Dick had the time of his life…

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Storm signals from Malaysia must be heeded here

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 9

COMMUNAL VIOLENCE has this month burst upon Malaysia with a speed and ferocity to…

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Storm on Job Accidents

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1969 · page 1

BRISBANE: Building and metal workers have reacted powerfully to two new accidents, one of them fatal, at Brisbane's "killer building" -- the State Government Insurance Office project. On Wednesday last week, a migrant worker was killed…

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Plain Australian Cyclone men showed how

Tribune · Wednesday 27 August 1969 · page 2

FACED with an employers' application for a Section 109 order over a Sydney strike, Builders'…

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New storm centre in P-NG

Tribune · Wednesday 10 September 1969 · page 2

THE rushing of police reinforcements to Rabaul last week, following last month's use of tear gas and batons against the people of Bougainville, are indications of new levels of…

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Music in a Deluge

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 October 1969 · page 6

After the dearth comes a deluge — no less than seven musical events demanded attention this week and two of these were outstanding. The Beaux Arts String…

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How the storm gathered Us Warned of Syrian Plot?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 November 1969 · page 10

Three weeks before the Lebanese crisis exploded, American intelligence in the Middle East got wind of a Syrian plot against the Lebanon. This was reported last week by Edouard Saab, the Beirut…

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Droogdok tijdens storm op drift

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 28 November 1969 · page 1

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