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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1946

228 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 12

Four Polling Booths For By-Election At Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

Four polling booths will be available for voters at the Grafton City Council by-election on Saturday…

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Pensions For Members Of Parliament

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Twenty-four members of the present Parliament are liable for a life pension of £6 a week should the State…

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Opposition View Referendum On Election Day Will Confuse

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.—Opposition protests against the holding of the referendum on election day on the grounds that it would…

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Heavy Vote At Jap Election

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

TOKIO, Thurs.—A surprisingly heavy vote was cast at Japan's first democratic election. A total vote of 65 to 70 per cent, was…

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Budget Unlikely Before Elections

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs.—It is unlikely that any Budget will be presented by the Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) before the…

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Col. Reid Country Party Senate Candidate

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—The Country Party to-night selected Lieut. A. D. Reid as its candidate for the Senate in the forthcoming…

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Conservative Win in Japanese Elections

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 1

TOKIO, Fri.—With the count half completed, the race between the three leading parties in the Japanese elections…

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Greek Elections "Free And Fair"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday.—The White House announced that the Anglo-American- French mission which observed the Greek…

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Big Poll Is Expected in By-election

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 2

A large poll is expected at the Grafton City Council by-election to-day for an alderman to fill the vacancy on the council…

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Parliament On The Air

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 2

IT SEEMS more than possible that the Federal Parliament debates will be broadcast next session. This experiment will be followed with great interest, and also with alarm probably by those who have listened to some of the dull debates staged in the…

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Mr. H. Doust Scores Convincing By-Election Victory

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 2

MR. HAROLD DOUST won the Grafton City Council by-election on Saturday, polling 1105 votes to 639 by Mr. J. T…

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Letters To The Editor (Correspondence should be restricted to 250 words.) Greek Elections

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 2

Sir,—In the issue of the "Daily Examiner" of April 11, Mr. Ken O'Hara comments rather depreciatingly on the recent Greek…

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Greek Elections

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 2

Sir,—Like Mr. W. F. Charles I, too, am a democrat, and am therefore just as disgusted as he is with the British policy in…

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Doust's Election Officially Announced

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

Mr. Harold Doust was announced by the returning officer (Mr. W. C. Sheather) as the successful candidate in the…

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Major Mitchell to Oppose Sir Earle Page in Coming Federal Elections

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 3

Major Mitchell. ex-M.L.A , for Oxley, has been selected by the Cowper Electoral Council of the A.L.P., to oppose Sir Earle Page…

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Grafton Polling Centres

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

The Federal Commissioner (Mr. E. Bennetts), in. a letter to Mr. C. G. Wingfield, M.L.A., stated that he had under consideration…

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Free Elections in Poland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 1

WARSAW, Mon.—The Polish Premiers (M. [?]) addressing the Polish National Assembly, reaffirmed that free general…

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Mistake About Election Of Hitler As Fuhrer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 1

NUREMBERG, Wed. The former president of the Reichbank (Dr. Schacht) told the War Crimes Tribunal that the…

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Liberal Candidate for Corio

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.—Cr. Frederick Hilton Wallace, former Mayor of Geelong, was last night selected as Liberal…

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Goulburn By-election

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Mayor of Goulburn (Ald. P. R. D. Hollis) has been selected as the Liberal Party candidate for…

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