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Mining & the mines, 1985

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12th Maccabiah Games Roundup Four Gold Medals for ‘Dowh Under’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 July 1985 · page 23

TEL AVIV: Victoria’s weightlifting champion, David Lowenstein, lived up to his reputation as Australia’s top medal prospect at the 12th Maccabiah Games last week when he easily won the…

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MINING Union battles plague Pilbara

Tribune · Wednesday 31 July 1985 · page 5

In the mid-'70s, company-sponsored people in the Pilbara region of WA tried to set up industry unions. This was a…

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Gold Coast Gift Helps Aged Home

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 August 1985 · page 3

SURFERS PARADISE: A donation of a large block of land on Queensland’s Gold Coast is likely to speed plans for a Jewish retirement village complex here…

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Wind-power leads race to find alternative to oil and coal

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 August 1985 · page 21

As the search for alternative energy sources forges ahead in this country, experiments with windgenerated electricity are “the closest…

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Aussie women may get gold in basketball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 August 1985 · page 36

Australia’s women’s basketball team could be 12th Maccabiah gold medal winners, despite the fact it didn’t win a game…

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Double-gold for handicapped athlete

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 August 1985 · page 2

TEL AVIV. - Israel’s Zippy Rubin, 39, won gold medals in both the women’s javelin and shot-put events at last weekend’s inaugural…

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Gold Coast visitor

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 August 1985 · page 22

Surfers Paradise has been a popular visiting place for members of Sydney and Melbourne Jewry during the past weeks. Guests have included Rev A. Winkler, Mr and Mrs Archie Rothman, Mr and Mrs George Keen, Sidney Sinclair, Mr and Mrs Sam Friedman, Mr and Mrs Godfrey Lee, Mr and Mrs Phil Solomon and Mr G. Heitner. Picture…

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Gold medals at Stoke Mandeville

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 32

TEL AVIV. - While Israelis Zippy Rubin and Nahman Wolf were sharing eight gold medals at this week’s first European track and field…

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Woman Leads Temple on Gold Coast

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 September 1985 · page 24

Queensland’s liberal congregation has a woman as its president. She is Stella Spray, who…

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Australian coal exports to Israel set to double

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 September 1985 · page 3

Australian coal shipments to Israel may double by the end of the decade as Israel builds its second coal-fired power station at Ashkelon…

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Machismo and the miners' strike

Tribune · Wednesday 25 September 1985 · page 13

Why is it that Dave Burchell wants to "tag" me yet again, then call for a "cease-fire" of our debate? I've been called "hard-line", "Stalinist",…

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COAL Disaster looms if coal exports deregulated

Tribune · Wednesday 23 October 1985 · page 4

Any moves to reduce controls on the export of coal would be a disaster, the Miners Federation warned the federal government last week. The Miners Federation made the statement following a front page story in the…

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Power plants and Collinsville coal

Tribune · Wednesday 30 October 1985 · page 8

The Petersen government has decided to close down half of the Collinsville power plant in the first half of 1986 and, later, to close the plant…

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backblocks Moves to close Ranger mine

Tribune · Wednesday 30 October 1985 · page 15

NORTHERN TERRITORY: The Northern Lands Council has begun proceedings in the High Court in an attempt to…

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COAL No deregulation of coal exports (yet)

Tribune · Wednesday 6 November 1985 · page 5

Fears that the federal "government would move to deregulate coal exports were allayed in part last week by…

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Green-gold Society, becomes Advance Bank — and the ‘step ahead’ savers stay winners

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 November 1985 · page 35

The NSW Building Society became Advance Bank on June 1, 1985 — the first such institution in Australia to obtain a banking licence — but, according to the Bank’s divisional assistant general manager, Mike Levin, there have been few changes evident to customers other than the…

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URANIUM Alarm at WA uranium mine

Tribune · Wednesday 13 November 1985 · page 14

Since revelations by an anti-nuclear activist in late October, there has been a storm of protest from ALP members and…

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Tenpin Roundup Sachs, Gold share honors

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 November 1985 · page 23

Top honors were shared by Philip Sachs and Baron Gold in the NSW Maccabi Tenpin League at Ruschcutter Bowl last week…

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Gold hoard discovered in ancient Galilee synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 November 1985 · page 5

A synagogue collection box with some 500 coins, half of them gold, has been uncovered in the ancient settlement of Merot in Eastern Galilee, four kilometres west of Tel Hatzor…

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MINING Cover up by WA iron ore companies

Tribune · Wednesday 20 November 1985 · page 4

Another Wittenoom is feared by iron ore workers in the Pilbara, where fibres which could cause cancer have been…

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