State Ministers Have "Election Throats"
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Two State Ministers had to take to their beds today with "election throats."…
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Politics & elections, 1950
262 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 7 of 14
Liberal Candidate in Address at Bulli
A well-attended meeting was held at the Bulli Council Chambers last week in support of Mr. Les Strachan, Liberal candidate and a Campaign Committee was formed and plans made for intensive organisation of the electorate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'New Deal' Committee Questions For Election Candidates
Five questions on the educational needs of Greater Wollongong are posed for State election candidates in an "open letter" released last night by the Secretary (Mr. G. S. Parker) on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Unwise for Parliament to Adjourn"—chifley
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — It Would be nationally, legislatively and politically unwise for the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor Wants Aborigines in Parliament
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The Federal Parliamentary Labor Party today endorsed the recommendation of its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidate Attends Progress Association
Ald. Lindsay Maynes was present at the regular meeting of the Dapto Progress Association and in the course of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Candidates For Elections Have Wide Diversity Of Occupations
The record number of 228 candidates nominated for the New South Wales elections on Saturday includes persons drawn from every walk of life An analysis reveals occupations extending from a master mariner to a young man who penetrated behind the Iron Curtain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reds V. People In Elections
SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Leader of the Country Party (Col. Bruxner) said tonight in a final election message that "the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Candidates' Answers To Questions on Education
Labor candidate for Wollongong-Kembla (Mr. R. F. X. Connor, Liberal Candidate (Ald. J. G. Sargent) and Independent candidate (Ald. H. A. Graham) issued statements last night in reply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Election
To-day (Saturday) electors have to vote for the election of representatives to the State Parliament. Booths, which will be open from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Final Election Barrage In Illawarra Electorate
Messrs. Maynes and Fowles both delivered their last election speeches this week. Mr. Maynes spoke to a good meeting at Albion Park on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Election Prospect
IT WOULD BE fallacious to regard today's State election poll as primarily a vote of confidence or otherwise in the Federal Liberal Government and in current Federal legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor's Election Aims
Sir.—Election Day is a fitting one to tell the electors the real aims and principles of the Australian Labor Party. It is the only party in this Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain Delays 50,000 Election Votes
SYDNEY, Fri. — Tomorrow's State election will be short of at least 50,000 votes. Flood rains over the last four days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor Rebels May Control New Parliament
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two Labor rebels expelled by the A.L.P. Executive earlier this year will probably hold the balance of power in the new New South Wales Parliament. The rebels. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woll'ong-Kembla Vote May Determine Election Result
Wollongong-Kembla, regarded until the February by-election as one of the safest Labor seats in the State, has proved to be one of the key seats in the general election held on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Close W'gong-Kembla Vote Favours Labor Candidate Labor Wins Bulli & Illawarra
Official Labor candidates easily retained the Bulli and Illawarra seats in Saturday's election while Mr. Rex Connor is also expected to hold the Wollongong-Kembla seat for Labor but only by a margin of a few hundred votes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today No One Is Happy About the N.S.W. ELECTIONS
HOW THE NEW SOUTH WALES electors voted has affected the stability of the present Federal Parliament. This largest State still dominates Federal politics and the vote, no more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament Adjourns In Uproar, With Threat of Double Dissolution
CANBERRA, Friday. — Federal Parliament adjourned in the early hours of this morning to resume in three months with the threat of a double dissolution hanging over its head. When…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Menzies Tips Election Over Communist Bill
ADELAIDE, Friday. — "If the Labor Party maintains its present attitude on the Communist Party Dissolution Bill, we will be campaigning on that subject by the end of the year," the Prime…
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