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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1949

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Liberal and Country Parties in Victoria Hollway On General Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE: The Victorian Premier (Mr. Hollway) said last night that he went move for a general election if negotiations for a union between the Labour Party and Country Party were successful…

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PARLIAMENT House Is Not Popular

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 3

Tourist traffic to Parliament House has decreased to 100 a week, acccording to House attendants. Traffic during the…

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Jap. Elections Conservatives' Victory

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 5

TOKYO: Former Premier Shigeru Yoshida's ultraconservative "Liberal Democratic Party" has apparently…

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Fadden's Warning to Australia Next May Be The Last "Free Election"

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE: The Federal Parliamentary Country Party Leader (Mr. Fadden) yesterday warned Autsralians that the 1949 Federal elections "conceivably could be the last free election under our present Constitution."…

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Letters to the Editor Election Expenses

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 2

Sir.—Regarding Mr. Chifley's cry for help from the A.W.U. of a from each member of the union to help his goverment in…

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Federal Parliament To-morrow

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Lutana report will be debated when Parliament re-assembles tomorrow. It will be recalled that 13…

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Elections in Borneo

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 1

On Friday, the Representative Council of East Borneo will be inaugurated. On the island of Bawean, to…

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Election Fever In Ulster

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 February 1949 · page 5

BELFAST, Thursday: Feeling in the Ulster elections, which are taking place to-day, reached a high…

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Election of P.P. Board Directors

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 February 1949 · page 3

An election for directors of Pastures Protection Boards will be held on Thursday, April 7. Roll of ratepayers will close on…

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Mr.a.e.elkins New President of Boorowa R.S. LEAGUE Retiring President Does Not Seek Re-election

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

Mr A. E. Elkins was elected President of Boorowa Returned Soldiers' League at its annual meeting last Friday night…

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Ballot Box and the Shillelagh Scenes At Elections In Northern Ireland

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 5

BELFAST, Friday: Police were rushed to Sion Mills in County Tyrone yesterday when fighting broke out between Nationalists (anti-partitionists) and unionist workers, in which men and women took part. This was the worst incident…

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"Running Away" Charge In British Parliament

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

LONDON,Friday: A bitter exchange in which the Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, accused the Opposition of "running away" marked the presentation in Parliament yesterday of the supplementary…

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Second Election in Fortnight

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 1

An extraordinary election—the second in two weeks—will be conducted by the Junee Municipal Council at the Council…

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P.P. Board Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

Arrangements are being made for an election of Goulburn Pastures Protection Board officers in April…

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Provincial Elections in S. Africa

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4

JOHANNESBURG, Friday:— Later figure in the South African provincial elections show that the United Party, led in…

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P.P. Boa D Election One Seat To Be Contested

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

There will be an election in only one division for the Goulburn Pastures Protection Board…

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YASS P.P. Board Election Division “C”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 2

To those entitled to vote for the election of two direction at the forthcoming election which closes at 4 p.m. on April 7, 1949…

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Yass P.P. Board Election in “C” Division

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 2

More than the required number having been nominated for the office of directors in “C” division OF the Yass P.P. Board, an…

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Elections in France

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday: Of the 723 seats so far decided in the French County Council elections, parties supporting the…

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Federal Elections. One Anti-labour Candidate for Hume

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 2

Colonel Anderson, a grazier, at Young, and 8th Division V.C. in the last war, is the Country Party candidate for Hume in the…

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