invalid Vote Cost Labor Candidate Seat in Upper House SYDNEY
There was much speculation at Parliament House to-day concerning an invalid vote cast by Labor supporters at the Legislative Council elections…
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Communists Lose All Seats in Swiss Elections Zurich, November 2
The general election shows little change in the position. The main effect will be to maintain the strength of the Democratic forces. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Snap Federal Election Suggestion Opposed by C.P. Mr. Cameron’s Comments Sydney
Declaring that there were within the House of Representatives to-day all the elements for forming and the maintaining of a stable, firm and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →31 Candidates For Leaving Certificate Examination at Albury
End of five years of study and toil, the Leaving Certificate examination began throughout the State yesterday, presenting an ordeal of question-and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election Next Year ? Parliament Meets Wednesday Criticism Likely to be Minimised CANBERRA
The forthcoming session of Parliament, beginning on Wednesday, is expected to be marked by an unusually small degree of criticism…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Politicians Will Be Quite Chummy to One Another! Indications at Canberra Parliament Meets This Week Canberra
The Federal Parliament this week will act as a house of review instead of its usual role of deliberating on new legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M.'sL.A. CENSURED. Support Independent Candidate. SYDNEY, Monday night
The U.A.P. Council, last night, after an acrimonious debate, censured Mr. J. C. Ross, M.L.A., and Mr. S. A. Lloyd, M.L.A., for having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Against the Evacuation of Parliament London, November 14
Members of the House of Commens of all parties have signed a mo[?]on opposing the evacuation of Parliament from London without obtaining the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Parliament
With three dissentients, a meeting of the Parliamentary U.C.P. on Tuesday, in view of the legislative administrative achievements of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Milk Board Bill Effort to Block Passage Allegations Against Member of Parliament MELBOURNE
The question of raising £1000, part of which was to be used as a fighting fund to block the passage of the Milk Board Bill through Parliament, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country Rarty and the Wheatgrower Attitude Bitterly Attacked Is Accused of “Running Away” Heated Debate in Parliament CANBERRA
A sharp clash between Party leaders in the House of Representatives to-day followed an allegation by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) that neither the Federal Government nor the Country Patty desired a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election of Next Mayor
The election of Mayor of Deniliquin for 1940 will take place at a special meting of the Municipal Council on Monday, December 11. The suggestion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King’s Confidence at Opening of Parliament Traditional Ceremony Missing Their Majesties Drive in Closed Car Germany’s Aims in Poland Collaboration With the Poles Impossible, It is Declared LONDON, November 28
“The prosecution of the war commands the energies all my subjects,” said His Majesty the King in his speech at the opening of Parliament’s first war session to-day. “My Dominions overseas are participating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Premier Asked to Reassemble Parliament at Once Sydney
A meeting of the “Citizens’ Defence League” in Sydney to-night carried a resolution asking the Premier (Mr. Mair) to reassemble Parliament for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Rates of Pay Causes Crisis in Federal Parliament. CANBERRA
The fate of the Federal Government is seriously threatened as the result of a crisis that has developed over the rates of pay of the military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germans Fail Magnetic Mines Overcome Allies’ Counter Measures M. Daladier Meets Parliament “Not Yet Time to Discuss Peace” PARIS, November 30
The French Minister for the Navy (M. Campinchi) said that the German, magnetic mines were less to be feared than was generally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Regulations for Mayoral Elections
The election of Mayors and Shire Presidents which will take place in December may be either by ordinary ballot preferential ballot or open…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers’ Pay May Cause an Election Menzies Ministry Faces Crisis Country Party Holds Key Dramatic Developments at Canberra CANBERRA
The Menzies Government to-night faced a critical situation on the vital issue of soldiers’ pay. Dramatic developments followed criticism by the Country Party and the Labor Party of the scale of military pay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Party to Choose Candidate for Lord Mayoralty Sydney
Civic Reform aldermen of Sydney City Council, were to have assembled to-day. to select the party’s nominee the Lord Mayoralty for 1940. Owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election of Mayors and Shire Presidents
The election of mayors and shire presidents which win take place this month throughout N.S.W. may be either by ordinary ballot, preferential…
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