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Mining & the mines, 1986

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Gold Coast cemetery

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 May 1986 · page 19

Some weeks ago I had occasion to write concerning an incorrect and biased report made by the AJT in…

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BRIEF Kambalda miners defeat WMC

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1986 · page 5

PERTH: The six-week-old Kambalda nickel miners' dispute ended last week when Western Mining Company…

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BOOKS Learning from history The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union. Volume One Creating the Traditions by Pete Thomas. Published by the Queensland Colliery Employees Union 16 East Street Ipswich Qld 4305. $10 for miners, $20 for the public

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1986 · page 11

For over 30 years Pete Thomas has recorded the never ending struggles of the trade unions against…

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Gold Coast Nuggets

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1986 · page 10

VERY popular Sydney family has made the “exodus” to Surfers Paradise and just to…

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Israel gold in Paradise

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1986 · page 10

After only two fundraising functions the Gold Coast’s United Israel Appeal (UIA) pledges are well ahead of last year’s figures…

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Mining Industry Broken Hill miners locked out

Tribune · Wednesday 28 May 1986 · page 5

Broken Hill's mineworkers have been locked out of the city's four mines following an overwhelming rank-and-file rejection of an interim award handed down by Justice Fisher…

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Gold Coast givers

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1986 · page 4

Ethiopian Jews are eagerly adjusting to their new lifestyle in Israel, United Israel Appeal (UIA) Director Avinoam Brog said at the recent UIA Gold Coast division’s annual appeal. He told the large r…

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Gold, Coast

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 June 1986 · page 8

Le Club Coast (Queensland) nous fait savoir que son assemblée générale s'est tenue…

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BRIEF Broken Hill miners solid in dispute

Tribune · Wednesday 11 June 1986 · page 5

Broken Hill mineworkers held a mass meeting last Saturday to hear a report back on the legal dispute over…

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BRIEF Britain's coal death rate up 50%

Tribune · Wednesday 11 June 1986 · page 5

BRITAIN: The latest figures released by Britain's coal industry show that since the end of the historic miners'…

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Decision on miners' log of claims

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1986 · page 5

The Coal Industry Tribunal has handed down a favorable decision on the Miners Federation's log of…

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Workers Rights Broken Hill mobilises to support miners

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1986 · page 5

Thousands of people packed the streets in Broken Hill on Saturday to demonstrate their support for the city's locked-out mineworkers. In a march organised by the Mineworkers Women's…

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Gold Coast celebrates

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1986 · page 14

A crowd of about 200 people, representing all the Gold Coast’s Jewish organisations, recently…

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Coal miners win in log of claims

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 4

After more than eight months of frustrating negotiations and sharp struggle, including two seven-day national strikes, Australian coalminers finally broke through on their log of claims with the Coal Industry…

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BOOKS Women and the miners' strike

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1986 · page 11

Over one hundred people gathered at the John Curtin Hotel on June 13 to launch Shifting Horizons, by Lynn Beaton. The book follows the lives of two miners' wives, Pauline and Doreen of Blidworth during the British miners' strike…

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Gold Over Australia

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 June 1986 · page 24

WOW, what a busy few weeks I have had, first off to Israel to attend the 20th Congress of the Maccabi World Union (MWU), home just in time to host a reunion function of the Victorian Maccabiah Club, then…

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Gold Coast Wizo child

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 June 1986 · page 21

Wizo Zahav won the recent Gold Coast Child Of The Year competition with 18-month-old candidate…

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URANIUM Government cover-up at French uranium mine continues

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1986 · page 14

Environmentalists who are concerned at the present state of the French trial uranium mine at Manyingee…

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Gold Coast cemetery

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 4

I have been approached by Temple Shalom, Gold Coast, a constituent of this Union, regarding the…

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Coal crisis with Australia defused

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1986 · page 5

Energy Minister Moshe Shahal last week defused the “coal crisis” with Australia, when he told the Australian ambassador that…

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