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Mining & the mines, 1972

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Campaign an coal crisis

Tribune · Tuesday 23 May 1972 · page 4

MEETINGS of Queensland miners at the huge foreign-owned Goonyella, Peak Downs and Blackwater open cuts and at the Thiess open-cut and underground…

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Hazards in the mines

Tribune · Tuesday 30 May 1972 · page 12

SYDNEY: Urging the need for new regulations to deal effectively with the dangers from mechanised mining, Mr. G. W. Petersen declared in the NSW…

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Crisis in Mining

Tribune · Tuesday 6 June 1972 · page 4

MINERS have been alerted by their national leadership to be prepared for "industrial and political action of the widest and furthest-reaching nature" around…

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Brides & Homes Bride Wore Cloth Oe Gold... - and a 40lb headdress of jewels

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 June 1972 · page 13

The darkly attractive Yemeni woman was trying to keep the bride from fidgeting. She fingered tiers and tiers of richly embroidered material and the chains of jewellery made a heavy jingling sound…

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Blockaded mine road

Tribune · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 12

STRIKING mineworkers at the Thiess company's South Blackwater (Central Queensland) mine held a three-day blockade of the road to the mine this…

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'Political Football'- Springboks '71 "Political Football -- The Springbok Tour of Australia, 1971", by Stewart Harris. Gold Star Publications, $1.95. Reviewed by Denis Freney

Tribune · Tuesday 13 June 1972 · page 6

"Law-'n-order" is the slogan being used in South Africa at this moment to crush the last element of open dissent in that country among White students and churchmen…

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Bhp Grabs Clutha Mines

Tribune · Tuesday 27 June 1972 · page 11

THE giant Broken Hill Pty Ltd., whose monopoly network already includes a dominant position in NSW coal production, has now beefed up its NSW coal position…

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Western miners strike against sackings

Tribune · Tuesday 4 July 1972 · page 4

LITHGOW: The first strike of New South Wales western coalfield miners refusing to take the sack moved to a strong position this week as miners at the pit…

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Mines, Jobs As Their Stakes

Tribune · Tuesday 11 July 1972 · page 4

THE fate of Australian mines, and the livelihood of Australian mineworkers, continue to be used as stakes by big companies in their…

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Gold Coast’s donation

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 July 1972 · page 11

Ilan will benefit with raffle of magnificent hooked rug made by Aelsie Magnus, President of Queensland’s Gold Coast group — wool kindly donated by Mr L. Fink, ‘Council husband’ of our National President, Mina Fink…

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Klaverjassen Gold Coast wint van klaverjassers uit Brisbane

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 21 July 1972 · page 10

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The Gold Kiddush Cup

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 July 1972 · page 11

ALTHOUGH Rabbi Dr I. Porush, in an article "Chief Rabbinate and early Australian Jewry", published in 1944 in the "Journal & Proceedings" of the Australian Jewish Historical…

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Death of Gold Coast leader

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 July 1972 · page 13

SURFERS PARADISE: The president of the Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation, Mr Isi…

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Monthly Motor Bike Feature Gold Star Ideal Buy

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 August 1972 · page 8

Many motor bike riders have found an ideal bike in the Gold Star 500 model, which won the 500 cc class in the English…

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Jews of the Goldfields

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 August 1972 · page 10

THE population of Victoria rose from 97,000 in 1851 to 364,000 in 1855. Among the throng of…

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Modern France Arts and Techniques The C.N.R.S. Gold Medal is awarded to Dr. Jacques Oudin

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 22 September 1972 · page 4

The National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) has awarded its Gold Medal to Dr Jacques Oudin "for the remarkable contribution…

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Holroyd Athletes Gain Two Gold Medals Championships win to juniors

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 26 September 1972 · page 16

Children from the Holroyd District Little Athletics Centre competed in the NSW Little Athletics Cross Country…

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Gold medal to Holroyd girl runner

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 3 October 1972 · page 12

Kerry McCahon of the Holroyd District Little Athletics Centre is pictured as she won a gold…

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Nationalise call on Clutha mines

Tribune · Tuesday 31 October 1972 · page 12

SYDNEY: Abandonment of the projected sale to BHP of the Clutha coalmine in the Burragorang Valley (southern NSW) has prompted a call for the State Government to…

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Klaverjassen Weekeinde met open klaverjas drive aan Gold Coast

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 10 November 1972 · page 14

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