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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1923

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Federal Parliament

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 16

Federal Ministers are all returning to Melbourne at the beginning of next week when a series of Cabinet meetings has been…

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Senate Vacancy Progressive Candidate Likely (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 12

It was stated last night that a metting of the Progressives today would probably decide to nominate Colonel P. P. Abbot, ex-M.P…

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Federal Parliament the Country Visited

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 16

Ministers after their week of Cabinet meetings in Melbourne have again dispersed to different parts of the Commonwealth- The…

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Irish Elections Voting Under Proportional Representation. an Analysis of the Results

Cowra Free Press · Friday 26 October 1923 · page 8

The recent general emotion in Ireland is of great interest to all the English-speaking peoples. First, because the Irish Free State is now a…

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Prorogation of Parliament

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 October 1923 · page 3

It is officially announced that the State Parliament is to be prorogued about December 20 until April, when another session will…

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Federal Parliament Melbourne, Saturday. Empire Markets for Our Produce

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 October 1923 · page 4

In steadily fighting Australia's case for Imperial preference, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has retrained from seeking the…

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Federal Parliament Melbourne, Saturday. Income Tax

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 4

Following the arrangements made by the Composite Government for the amalgamation of the Federal and State Income Tax…

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Cotton Spinning. Bond Commences. Support From Press and Parliament

Western Champion · Thursday 8 November 1923 · page 24

During the recent visit of a large body of Australian rural pressmen to the cotton-spinning mill recently erected by G. A. Bond and Co., Ltd.,…

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Night Sittings of Parliament May be Abolished in Q.

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 9 November 1923 · page 12

The Queensland Premier (Mr. Theodore) favors the proposal of the Acting Premier (Mr. Gillies) that night sittings of Parliament…

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Cotton Spinning Bond Commences Support From Press and Parliament

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 9 November 1923 · page 9

During the recent visit of a large body of Australian rural pressmen to the cotton spinning mill recently erected by G. A…

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Early Election? Labor Getting Ready

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 9 November 1923 · page 5

So firmly fixed has become the idea that there is likely to be an early State election that a meeting of members of the Federal…

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Attack on the Government Labor Party’s Rally. Election Prospects. Mr. Bruxner’s Chance

Cowra Free Press · Friday 9 November 1923 · page 6

What the chairman, Mr. George Smith, president of the “Western Suburbs State council of the A.L.P., described as the beginning of a series of…

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Federal Parliament Melbourne

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 13 November 1923 · page 6

The Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Earle Page) returned to Melbourne on Monday after an absence of some weeks in the North, during…

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Is a Dissolution of Parliament Imminent ?

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 13 November 1923 · page 2

Sir George Fuller affects to treat the rumors that are continually cropping up regarding the early dissolution of Parliament with contempt…

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State Parliament House to Meet at Easter (By Wire). Sydney, Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 13 November 1923 · page 4

The Premier stated definitely today that he intends to meet the House again soon after Easter to complete legislation left over from…

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Cotton Spinning! Bond Commences Support From Press And Parliament

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 November 1923 · page 3

During the recent visit of a large body of Australian rural pressmen to the cotton-spinning mill recently erected by G. A. Bond and Co., Ltd…

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Municipal Bye-election

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 6

Interest in local municipal affairs, which has been at a very low ebb or late years, appears, to be reviving in the controversies raging on…

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State Parliament Land Policy

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 20 November 1923 · page 6

The estimates for the Departments of Lands and Forests were set down at £585,988. Mr. Flanner took the…

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Wheat Pools and Silos Discussion in Parliament

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 November 1923 · page 5

When the Estimates of the Department of Agriculture (£527666) were being considered, Mr. Lang called attention to the…

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Federal Parliament Melbourne, Saturday. Preference for Australian Apples

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 23 November 1923 · page 7

A further success has, been attained by the Prime Minister in arranging with the Imperial Government for a preference tariff in…

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