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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1955

16 stories in Sydney's papers

Lifeboat Turns Up

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1955 · page 1

PERTH, Tues. -- The lifeboat from the State motorship Dulverton, reported missing off the…

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Brutal Treatment by Egyptians to Crew of Israeli Steamer

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 3

We have already published a cable about the release of the Bat Galim crew. Here is a detailed report about the brutal treatment by the Egyptians and now the crew has been sent back to Israel…

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Australiana Batman's schooner

The World's News · Saturday 22 January 1955 · page 23

A PLAQUE has just been unveiled at Rosevears, Tasmania, to commemorate the building and launching of the 33-ton schooner Rebecca,…

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TRIBUNE Group wreckers drop mask in Hobart split

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 2

The Industrial Group leaders have exposed themselves before the whole Australian Labor movement as people ready to smash the Australian Labor Party rather than accept defeat…

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A Day On The Wreck

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 7 April 1955 · page 33

One afternoon we all had to get some shell grit for the chickens, so we decided to go to the wreck where there were a lot of shells…

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Hit by a Bomb? No. Wrecked by the color-bar mad South African Government

Tribune · Wednesday 13 April 1955 · page 4

THESE were native homes in Sophiatown, a Johannesburg suburb. They have been demolished on order of the South African Government in order to shift natives out of areas which have been legislated as "white" areas. A wide swathe…

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Stop Press Groupers wreck Vic. Lab. Govt

Tribune · Wednesday 20 April 1955 · page 1

As Tribune went to press the Industrial Groups utterly exposed themselves to the nation by voting openly with Liberals to wreck the Labor Government in Victoria. THE vote was 34 to 23 with eleven…

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Says Rats In Wrecking Yards

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 27 April 1955 · page 6

May's Hill Progress Association members allege that "vermin" were breeding in car wrecking yards on the…

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Group Wreckers Exposed As American Agents

Tribune · Wednesday 27 April 1955 · page 2

THE Industrial Groupers' real role as agents of American big business operating in the Australian Labor Movement has been…

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Groupers' Tricks to Wreck Alp Talks

Tribune · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 2

The Industrial Group wreckers are trying to sabotage the forthcoming special NSW Conference, called to rid the Labor Party of their disruptive influence. Frightened of the verdict of the…

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There Can Be No Compromise with Group Wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 25 May 1955 · page 2

Despite the fact that Santamaria-Coleman-Keon Groupers are now openly supporting the Liberal Party in Victorian and Federal politics, the Rooney-Kane clique in NSW…

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An Umbrella from the Sea Susan felt that each gale would blow her heart away. Any moment Glyn might be called to man the lifeboat

The World's News · Saturday 4 June 1955 · page 32

TO Susan the summer was far more than a time of blue skies and soft winds and warm,…

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Stop Press Groupers and thugs bash workers and wreck wharfies' union office

Tribune · Wednesday 6 July 1955 · page 1

INDUSTRIAL Group candidates and thugs wrecked the Melbourne offices of the Waterside Workers Federation on Monday…

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TRIBUNE Menzies Government the real economy wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 20 July 1955 · page 2

MENZIES and his profit hungry monopoly backers are ruining the economy of Australia…

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Groups Try to Wreck Cahill Govt

Tribune · Wednesday 19 October 1955 · page 3

The Group-dominated NSW Executive of the Labor Party is co-operating with the Keon clique in Canberra to defeat the Cahill Labor Government. THEY are trying to follow up their…

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Lonely Pacific paradise has proved to be a happy haven for a shipwrecked yachtsman

The World's News · Saturday 22 October 1955 · page 5

The walls are ingeniously con[?]tracted from cabin doors, joined [?]ide by side; the canting decks form [?]he floor; the ceiling is made up of…

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