Federal Elections Polling Day Tomorrow (Saturday)
The Federal elections take place tomorrow (Saturday), the various polling booths being open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. At Corowa the…
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The Elections
On polling day, to-morrow, the polling booths will be open, continuously from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting is compulsory. Failure to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warren McDonald Sums Up Election Campaign Country Party Rests On Its Policy
"This is an election of contrasts," declared Mr Warren McDonald, the Country Party Candidate for Hume, in his final summing up of the…
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Very early in the field for Hume, says a recent issue of the "Cootamundra Daily Herald," came the Country Party candidate, Mr Warren…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →1946 General Elections and Referendums Members of the Forces
"A member of the forces on active service (including any serviceman on leave) may vote as an ordinary or absent voter (provided he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Sydney Celebrate Amid Drought" "Labor Electioneering," Says Bruxner
"The decision of the Labor Government to lift all restrictions on lighting in the metropolitan area, while coal is still so short that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Elections All Three Main Parties Confident Sydney
All three main political parties contesting Saturday’s Federal elections are confident of success. Secretary of the ALP (Mr J. Stewart, MLC) said there was no swing one way or the other. The people were satisfied with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“I Will Win Hume” Three Candidates Confident
The fight for Hume has been a set-piece contest in which the three major parties in Federal politics have waged the issues. As election campaigns go it has been a quiet-enough affair in which the arguments in the main have been clear to electors despite the befogging effect of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day Is People’s Day! 18th Federal Parliament To Be Chosen
Today approximately 4,600,000 electors will go to the polls to choose their representatives for the 18th Parliament of the Commonwealth. Since 1901, when Edmund Barton formed the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Election Results Broadcast
2AY will broadcast from 9.30 p.m. until 12.30 a.m. from Sydney, Melbourne Adelaide and Brisbane, giving progress election figures. Adelaide has made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturday’s Election
The Australian political scene is tranquil once again, the electors having confirmed Labor in office for another three years. Except for minor casualties, the Government rode more serenely to victory than even its supporters anticipated. Prior to Saturday talk of a “swing”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sidelights on Polling Day
At lunch time voting was spasmodic, with a crowd of voters going up the Court House steps at once, and then no one for tea minutes or longer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Elections Labour Government Returned Sydney
When counting was resumed in the Federal Elections today there was little or no change in the overnight position of the parties, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Federal Elections
The high hopes entertained by all the anti-Labor forces for the overthrow of the Labor Government were frustrated on Saturday last, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four By-elections Pending State Politicians [?] for Federal Hono[?] SYDNEY
Of four members of the State Parliament who resigned their seats to contest the Federal elections only one seems certain to be successful. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Activity in State Political Sphere Four By-elections Pending Sydney
State elections will be held not later than next May, and the major political parties in NSW are preparing their programmes. Results in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federal Elections
In the Federal elections, which took place on Saturday, the people of Australia. showed their confidence in the [?] Government by returning it to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labors Election Win
Now that the elections are over, with most of the vote counting complete, there is no doubting as to the win of the people—the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Culcairn Polling Booth Officials
Officials at the polling both on Saturday were Messrs D. Cox, assistant, returning officer and presiding officer; J. J. Newman and P. Holmes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence the Ringwood Polling Booth (To the Editor)
Sir.--In common with many other residents of this district. I deplore the ungracious, and to my mind, unwarranted treatment meted out to…
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