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Murray · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1951

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Liberal M. P. Attacks Defence Preparations Bill “Bureaucracy Substituted for Parliament”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thurs. : NSW Liberal member, Mr Bland, in the House of Representatives today attacked tacked the Government’s Defence Preparations Bill as a means of substituting bureaucracy for…

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N.Z, stirred by election decision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 5

WELLINGTON (NZ), Thurs.: The whole of New Zealand has been stirred by the political bomb-shell which the Prime…

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N.Z. election Sept. 1?

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 July 1951 · page 18

WELLINGTON (NZ), Fri.: The 39th New Zealand Parliamentary session ended tonight. Only 26 of the 80 members were…

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N. Z. Elections Sept. 1

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 2

WASHINGTON (NZ), Tues.:— The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) tonight announced that September I would be the date for the…

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Parliament Is in Too Much of a Hurry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 3

ONE of the most regrettable aspects of the first session of the newly elected Federal Parliament was the indecent haste with which…

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Murray C.p. Electorate Council Two C. P. Candidates Endorsed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 4

A special meeting of the Murray Country Party Electorate Council was held at Berrigan on Friday last, for the purpose of considering…

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“Provocative” motions will come before farmers’ “Parliament”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: Opposition to ony further extension of the wheat stabilisation scheme, reintroduction of a 44-hour week, and opposition to the continuance of the Wool Sales Deduction Act, 1950, will be urged at the…

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Portuguese only one vote— but candidate

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 6

LISBON, Sun.: Portugal’s one million voters Parted polling today in the country’s first presidential election for 25 years, but there is…

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Murrumbidgee Shire Kangaroo Havoc Should Be Debated in Parliament

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee Shire Council will ask Mr. A. G. Enticknap, M.L.A. to bring the matter of an open season…

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Parliament treated with “contempt”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.: The Federal Labor Opposition would not be represented at the anti-inflation talks on Monday for the…

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Dr. Evatt sees Labor gains in by-elections

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: A gain in Labor’s voting strength was claimed today by the Leader of the Opposition (Dr. Evatt) after he had analysed the Macquarie and Balaclava by-elections on Saturday. Dr. Evatt said the aggregate anti-Government vote…

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Election of Officers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 3

Mrs Tinkler occupied the chair for the election of officers which resulted as follows:--President, Mrs K. S. R. Clarke;…

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Egg Board Probe Method of Elections Criticised

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Unsatisfactory conditions in the Egg amd Egg Pulp Marketing Board were due entirely to the method of conducting elections of members of the board, a farmer secretary. Mr. Stanley Alexander…

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Two C.p, Candidates Endorsed

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 7

A special meeting of the Murray Country Party Electorate Council was held at Berrigan last week for the purpose of…

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Wangaratta News Wangaratta, Fri.: One Election

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 4

There will be only one election in the three shires of the Borough Council. Retiring are Crs N. Stewart, J. C. Tilson and W. J…

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British election October 25 ?

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Sun: Mr Norman Dodds, Labor MP, predicts a general election in Britain in October…

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Uproar in Persian Parliament

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 2

TEHERAN, Sun.: A meeting of the Majlis (Parliament) ended in uproar today after the Opposition Deputies attacked…

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Will Labor force election ?

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri.: State Labor leaders may tell the Government to explore every avenue to ensure the passage of the…

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Election in Britain this year?

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 14

LONDON, Sun.: “The People’s” political correspondent said today that Prime Minister Attlee told Key Labor Party Officials in his…

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N.s.w. Parliament Debates the Butter Tangle a Censure Motion Is Defeated

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Although a Labor member strongly criticised Cabinet’s failure to increase the price of butter in conformity with the other four States, he voted with the Government on a censure motion which was lost in the Legislative Assembly tonight…

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