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Mining & the mines, 1984

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New investment First gold fund

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 November 1984 · page 25

OCEANIC Funds Management Limited has opened up new ground for…

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BRIEFS Coal miners fight for jobs

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1984 · page 5

South Coast coal miners at the Wollongong Showground today were told that when the federal elections are over…

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British Miners Thatcher poised to break Into pit top coal stocks

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1984 · page 5

The British miners and the Thatcher government are set for a major showdown in the next few weeks…

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FILM Kemira -- documentary from the miners' side

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1984 · page 9

Kemira, Diary of a Strike has just achieved a rare distinction for politically committed film. It has won the 1984 Australian…

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Gold medal Cohen one of “ours”

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 November 1984 · page 24

Overseas Jewish press reports which reached these shores said that the first “Jewish” gold medal at the recent Los Angeles Olympic Games was won by US…

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JOBS Coal miners to fight the sack

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1984 · page 5

Fifteen miners occupied the Coalcliff pit on Tuesday morning, following a meeting of miners from both Coalcliff and Darkes Forest to discuss the 300 notices given out on Monday. The company, Kembla Coal and…

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British Miners Striking miners need support

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1984 · page 16

Sam Thompson, a striking British miner, vice-president of the Yorkshire NUM and husband of Alma Thompson of…

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BRITAIN British miners need help now

Tribune · Wednesday 21 November 1984 · page 5

Well over $200,000 has been sent from Australia to support the British miners' strike, according to a recent edition of Common Cause, the Miners Federation weekly. That includes $83,000 from the Seamen's Union alone, and over $5,000 from the Tribune miners…

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Sporting Times Israel is confident of gold in lawn bowls title

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 November 1984 · page 24

Israel is confident it can go “two better” and win the women’s world lawn bowls title in Melbourne, next rear. At the previous world…

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British miners: correction and comments

Tribune · Wednesday 28 November 1984 · page 13

Your story in last week's Tribune on the British miners' strike contains a couple of inaccuracies concerning the support given by the Soviet…

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JOBS Six months stay on coal sackings

Tribune · Wednesday 28 November 1984 · page 5

Coal miners from all unions in the South Coast district are meeting today to consider recommendations to end the…

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Newest on Gold Coast Chevron at beach

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 November 1984 · page 21

One of the Gold Coast’s newest accommodation centres is the Chevron Beachside. It was opened in…

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New look luxury resort at Coolangatta Award for Gold Coast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 November 1984 · page 13

Holiday times and the Gold Coast go hand in glove — often without a second thought — for thousands of Australians every year. And a big percentage of…

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“We’ll Win Perth Gold” ‘No team’ rumor angers Sydney’s girl basketballers

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 November 1984 · page 36

New South Wales will field a goldmedal winning women’s basketball team at the 52nd Australian Maccabi Sports Carnival, Margo Michael said this week…

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British Miners Miners explain their case in Australia as winter comes to Britain

Tribune · Friday 7 December 1984 · page 5

On December 1, the British National Coal Board's Xmas bonus offer to buy back striking miners ran out. This…

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Land rights legislation pleases mining companies

Tribune · Friday 7 December 1984 · page 15

PERTH: Liberal Party's preelection claims that Aborigines will claim half of WA's land' continue daily on television and…

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ANTI-DISCRIMINATION Sexism, racism rampant in Western Mining Corporation

Tribune · Friday 7 December 1984 · page 3

PERTH: Western Mining Corporation has produced an internal memo which is severely critical, in the most mysoginist…

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British Miners Miners facing Christmas with solidarity

Tribune · Wednesday 19 December 1984 · page 4

Sam and Alma Thompson, brought from the Yorkshire district of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) by West…

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USSR The life of Soviet miners

Tribune · Wednesday 19 December 1984 · page 7

Pat Gorman is the editor of Common Cause, the weekly paper of the Miners Federation, and a CPA member. Gorman…

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Arab cash for Gold Coast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 December 1984 · page 3

SURFERS PARADISE: The Queensland Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, will personally ask wealthy Arabs to invest in the Gold Coast Sir Joh said he will lead a…

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