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Mining & the mines, 1986

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UK seeks extradition of gold bullion smuggler

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 March 1986 · page 8

A British bullion dealer, suspected of smuggling some £7.5 million of gold into Britain, booked in at one of Tel Aviv’s leading hotels last…

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Temple ‘boycotts’ Gold Coast talks on cemetery plans

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 March 1986 · page 36

GOLD COAST: Members of the Gold Coast Temple Shalom congregation have been told not to attend a public meeting on Tuesday night…

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MINING Wittenoom officer to testify

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1986 · page 5

PERTH: A former Wittenoom quality control officer will give evidence on behalf of sick and dying former Wittenoom…

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Western Australia Uranium mining "test" drags on

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1986 · page 3

A French company, Total Mining, has recommenced uranium production at their Manyingee mine site in Western…

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Gold Over Australia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1986 · page 42

DURING the past 50 years, Australian Jewry’s “national sports organisation” has collected a number of valuable trophies, mostly from the annual carnivals…

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HISTORICAL Qld miners history launched

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1986 · page 4

Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Hay den paid a warm tribute to the militant history and traditions of Queensland coalminers when he launched the first volume of the Queensland miners' union history, The Coalminers of Queensland, in Ipswich on…

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BRITAIN Getting back to basics in the fight for miners' unity

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1986 · page 12

Print boss Rupert Murdoch has built his strategy on the experience of the miners' strike. In collusion with…

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JOBS Broken Hill fighting for survival as CRA shuts down mines

Tribune · Wednesday 9 April 1986 · page 5

The NSW mining city of Broken Hill is fighting for its survival following the closure by the giant CRA company of its mines there in a move to drastically reduce employment and destroy many of the rights and…

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Gold Over Australia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 41

ONE wonders why Ajax Maccabi holds its council meetings every two months, rather than on a monthly basis. Delegates from member clubs often miss meetings, as was evidenced at the…

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Gold Coast Nuggets

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 April 1986 · page 33

The new Gold Coast UIA team is getting down to tachlis hoping to exceed last year’s target. The new team is Reuben Pelerman (president), Alf Borman (chairman), Hemda Woodman (treasurer), Ruth…

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INDUSTRY Coal owners scuttle talks

Tribune · Wednesday 16 April 1986 · page 5

Meetings of coal miners around Australia last week endorsed by 95% a seven day national strike, after last minute "bastardry" by coalowners scuttled a negotiated settlement of their log of claims…

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SUPERANNUATION Coal miners end strike to consolidate gains

Tribune · Wednesday 23 April 1986 · page 3

Coalminers cut short their week long national strike at midnight last night to allow their claims to go before arbitration. The mining unions expressed their disgust with Industrial…

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Gold Coast Nuggets

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 April 1986 · page 15

Reuben and Ann Pelerman’s home was the venue for the UIA major donors’ function…

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Gold Over Australia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 April 1986 · page 24

THE annual Maccabi sports carnivals have proved, over the years, to be one of the more important events on the Jewish calendar. A major weapon in the communities’ fight against…

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JOBS Broken Hill miners reject commission decision

Tribune · Wednesday 7 May 1986 · page 5

Over 2,000 mineworkers in Broken Hill voted last Sunday to reject a decision by NSW Industrial Commissioner Justice Fisher to grant the companies operating the city's mines almost everything they sought…

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THEATRE Miners' courage and determination The Miners' Strike Show, performed by the New Theatre (Melbourne) at the Organ Factory, Page Street, Clifton

Tribune · Wednesday 7 May 1986 · page 11

The Miners' Strike Show takes an unusual point of view of the British miners' strike. Rather than…

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Gold Over Australia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 May 1986 · page 32

BY the time you read this column, I’ll be in Israel, along with Australia’s other delegates, Louis Platus, Michael Wrublewski and Lou Rose, attending the World Maccabi Union…

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JOBS Miners question Fisher's authority

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1986 · page 5

The people of Broken Hill are awaiting the next development in the dispute which will determine the fate of their city…

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MINING Talks collapse at Kambalda

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1986 · page 4

Arbitration has broken down in the Kambalda nickel refinery dispute. This is due to a decision last week of the industrial commission not to hear unions' claims for the reinstatement of retrenched workers…

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Uranium mining continues in WA

Tribune · Wednesday 14 May 1986 · page 3

PERTH: Manyingee, the French uranium mine near Onslow, has moved into stage two for 1986. At this in-situ leach…

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