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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1949

474 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 17 of 24

Labor Wins Norway Elections Communists Almost Annihilated

National Advocate · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 2

OSLO, Wednesday: Late returns in the Norwegian ejection show an overwbelming victory for Labor and a smashing defeat for the…

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Miners Have Important Elections

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 2

Members of the Western Miners' Federation will elect area representatives to the Board of Management for the…

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Britain's Election Will Be on Nationalisation

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.-- Britain's Conservative Party has re-affirmed its stand against nationalisation and deplored the…

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Triumphant German Election Pieck First President

Central Western Daily · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 3

BERLIN, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—In the greatest demonstration Berlin has seen since the days of the Nazis 30,000 blue-shirted German youths marched along the Unter…

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Rolls Close on October 31. Federal Election

Central Western Daily · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 2

Rolls to be used in the forthcoming Federal -election will close at 6 p.m. on October 31— the date of the issue of…

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Bathurst Ambulance Elections

National Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

At last meeting of the Bathurst Ambulance committee Mr. A. Rogers was elected president for the second successive year. Vice-presidents…

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U.k. Election Plan. Report to Cabinet

National Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday: Britain's "Big Three" Prime Minister Attlee, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, and the Lord President of the Council, Herbert…

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No British Election This Year

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--An official announcement from No. 10 Downing. Street to-day said that there will be no general election in Britain this…

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Won Election on Plain Speaking

Central Western Daily · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Mrs M. G. E. Propating, a 72-years-old mother with a son aged 12 and a daughter aged…

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Election Visits by Ministers

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

Several Labor Government ministers are expected to visit Orange during the Federal election campaign to s…

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Mobile Polling Booth For Hospital Patients

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 5

As the system of postal voting has been revised, patients of Lithgow hospital will be able to avail themselves of a mobile…

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Women's Vote Is Vital to Elections

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

With less than two months to the fateful 1949 poll, the chief political parties are intensifying their campaigns to gain electoral…

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Liberal Candidate

National Advocate · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Liberal Party has selected Mr. Thomas Joseph Handran-Smith, of Cremorne, to contest the Blaxland Beat at the next…

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Socialism Means Nothing to Labor Man Election Speech In Orange

Central Western Daily · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

Mr. G. A. Gibbons, Labor candidate for Calare at the Federal election, who opened his campaign in Orange yesterday, said that socialism meant nothing to him…

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Election Dates

National Advocate · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) formally announced to Parliament today that the Federal election will be held…

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Chamber Election's

National Advocate · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 2

Nominations for the executive positions of the Bathurst Chamber of Commerce closed at 6 p.m. yesterday. However, any received in the post this…

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Press and Parliament Questions In State House

National Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: The Premier (Mr. McGirr) in the Legislative Assemly today said he would Rive serious consideration to altering the…

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Wide Campaign by Liberal Candidate For Macquarie

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 2

The present campaign of the Liberal nominee, Mr. Bob Cotton, is claimed to be the [?]est extensive over conducted by a…

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No Party Is Confident About Election Result Hope Of Clear Cut Verdict (From Our Special Representative)

Central Western Daily · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Sunday.—The last session of the Eighteenth Parliament finished last week, unlamented and with very brief obsequies. The general feeling of…

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Federal Writs Issued Miners to Take Election Plans

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday. The Federal Parliament was dissolved by a proclamation issued in Canberra by the Governor General (Mr McKell)…

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