War Crimes Bill still stalled
WAR CRIMES prosecutions in Australia are likely to be lengthy and expensive with the committal and trial stages each taking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1988
133 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 7
Democrats support War Crimes Bill
THE AUSTRALIAN Democrats will not support Opposition moves to alter the War Crimes Amendment Bill under which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hanna’s War huge success in Q’land
MENAHEM GOLAN’S film Hanna’s War made its Australian premiere in Brisbane this week to an incredible display of feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TV targets British war criminals
A SCOTTISH Report Special, which Channel 10 will screen on Saturday night, November 5, provides evidence from Lithuania…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Poland to supply war crimes evidence
POLAND has agreed to provide evidence and allow witnesses to travel to Australia for war crimes trials. To give effect to this,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Church leaders for War Crimes charges
THE NSW Synod of the Uniting Church of Australia has passed a resolution commending the government for “its intention to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Soldier honoured for casbah ambush
OC Central Command Aluf Amram Mitzna last week presented a certificate of merit to a 23-year-old company commander in the Golani…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between the lines of the cold war
Between the Lines, by Bernice Morris, published by Sybylla Press, 1988, $18.50. Reviewed by Joyce Stevens. A great deal has been written and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Post-war migrants rekindle friendships
THE 40th anniversary reunion for Jewish post-war immigrants at the Maccabean Hall on November 20 will see many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opposition threat to sink War Crimes Bill
THE FEDERAL opposition is threatening to oppose the War Crimes Amendment Bill following the government’s rejection of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General MacArthur’s World War II hideaway
A VERY spacious penthouse apartment in “Ashdown” at 96 Elizabeth Bay Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Opposition’s unnecessary blocking of War Crimes Amendment Bill
Exactly one year after the War Crimes Amendment Bill went through the House of Representatives it has still not passed the Senate. In fact, it has not even been debated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Community They’re more likely to say ‘no’ to nukes Women and war
RAMAT GAN - Women are more likely than men to see negotiations, rather than a strong army, as the best way of deterring an Arab attack. Similarly, women are more likely than men to prefer political, rather than military, action against terrorism. They are also more likely to say “no” to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Legitimising Vietnam war
Just when we thought that the Vietnam War was behind us, and the veterans given their day of "recognition", John Pilger writes a brilliant analysis of the war (Age. 29.10.88) and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War crimes and the East European past Ideas and Opinions
THE JEWISH community has taken an enormous and quite unfair beating over the pending war crimes legislation, some of it from hardcore and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Opposition decides: “No” vote to War Crimes Amendment Bill Baume vote vital
THE GOVERNMENT is facing the possibility of a very close and bitter battle to get its war crimes law…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Deport war criminals
Despite the complicated controversy over the War Crimes Bill, Im am more resolute than ever that Nazi war criminals be deported from Australia to face justice in Europe. Australia has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Readers Say (Vietnam) war criminals
Will the Australians who became millionaires, multi-millionaires and billionaires during the Vietnam War be charged with war crimes? Will the editors and newspaper owners who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stars and tripe: the gringos at war Is patriotism the last refuge of heroes as well as scoundrels? A new film, Contradictions, makes Tim Rowse wonder
The ascendancy of George Bush came to seem so inevitable that it was hard to gather an emotional response to his electoral victory. The sheer persistence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War and Remembrance
Post World War II migrants meet in Sydney to celebrate Australia THE ATMOSPHERE was electric when more than 260…
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