Federal Labour Awaits' Election Date CANBERRA--Thursday
The Federal Parliamentary Labour Party has almost completed the first draft of Mr. Curtin's policy speech, and it is understood that it will be…
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Federal Election Expected in September
This present session of the Federal Parliament, which was resumed only on Tuesday, is likely to conclude on Thursday or Friday of next week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Budget Unlikely Before Elections Canberra
Although there will not be time to conduct the Federal elections on the new rolls, the electoral machinery was brought up-to-date to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Off to Flying Start Politicians to Start Election Campaign Canberra
Although the date of the election (ion is not yet known, campaigning has virtually commences. Many members left Canberra to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Curtin Backs Official A.L.P. Candidate Sydney
“At this time in our history as never before. Australia needs a [?] opposition in the Federal and State sphere of politics to act as the people’s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Electioneering in Camps Mr. Curtin is Opposed To [?] CANBERRA
The Federal Parliamentary Labor or Party considers that the support given to the party leader (Mr. Cartin) at the meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kooyong Labor Candidate Melbourne
Endorsement for Kooyong was today given to Mr. T.W. Brennan, who as Labor candidate. will again challenge the Prime Minister. In the last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Win the War Before Worrying About Petty Things Discussion on Postponed Shire Elections
The Under Secretary, Department of Works and Local Government, informed Hume Shire Council yesterday that in view of the existing state of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Election Costs
Balmain Municipal Council thinks that if municipal and shire elections are to be postponed during 1940, the saving in expenditure should be applied to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Items of News U.C.P. and Federal Elections
It is not expected that anyone will oppose Mr. Collins, the present member for Hume, when the U.C.P. Electoral Council meets at Wagga on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peaceful Campaign Curtin and the Elections CANBERRA
All political parties in Australia were loyalist and patriotic and there was no need for an acrimonious Federal election campaign,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Down Tamworth By-Election SYDNEY
The official Labor Party received a severe blow on Saturday in the Tamworth by-election, its candidate finishing last on the list in a three,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Independent Members of Parliament (To The Editor)
Sir,--Your recent article on the much-discussed Federal elections opens up a question of absorbing interest to anyone who takes an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Postponing Elections Carrathool Shire Changes Its Mind
At yesterday's meeting of the Carrathool Shire Council, all the councillors being present, the question of postponing shire elections was again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Win for U.a.p. in Tamworth By-election
The three-cornered contest in the Tamworth by-election on Saturday resulted in a set-back for the Labour Party its candidate, Mr. J. Lyons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Election
Is it believed that the Federal elections will be held on Saturday, September 21, and that Parliament will meet, for the last time next Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forthcoming Federal Elections
With about as much vacillation and indecision as has characterised the Federal Government's activities for months past, the process of fixing the date of the forthcoming elections is being gone through now, and in due time it will be decided upon!…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hume Labor Candidate Endorsed Cootamundra
To plan a campaign for the forthcoming Federal election, the Hume A.L.P. Federal Electoral Council was organised at Cootamundra yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elections Maybe Held Up News Worse From Europe CANBERRA
Federal Cabinet may not finally reach a determination on the election at its meeting to-morrow. The possibility of postponing the election…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Popularity of Spring Candidates Sydney
Beaulivre and High Caste dispute favoritism for the Epsom Handicap, while Reading is the straight-out favorite for the Metropolitan. The latest…
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