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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 44
The French elections have provided one sensational incident in which the former Chief of Police (M. Chiappe), who was prominent in the Stavisky scandals, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tentative arrangements for a general election late in September or early in October, 1937, are being considered by the Federal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The greater part of the French Press emphasises that devaluation of the franc and inflation are avoidable only by voting against tho Popular…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tributes to Mr. G. H. Varley were paid when the Legislative Council met this afternoon, and the House adopted a resolution placing on record its deep…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →With memories of reports of costly Royal Commissions pigeonholed during the last few years, it was with justifiable pride that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Government was urged by Mr. E. J. Ward (Lab., East Sydney), in the House of Representatives to-night, to take up with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"I agree with Hitler!" Resonantly, the declaration rang through the Legislative Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Urging the House to pass it with all speed, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Dunningham) introduced a Bill into the Legislative Assembly this afternoon providing that the living wage for adult…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →After a sitting which lasted all night the Radical-Socialists decided to stand down in favour of the Communists. As the Radical-Socialists had a majority at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Considering that the horses were allowed to gallop next to the rails on the No. 2 grass at Broadmeadow this morning, times were only…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Following further evidence to-day in the Police Court in the case, arising out of the plebiscite conducted on March 14 to select a Labour candidate for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Unsuccessful candidates for Parliamentary honors were, last night, placed on the same, footing as other pests (so far…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Federal Government has no knowledge of reports that the Japanese Government proposes to impose a duty of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Japanese Parliament is expected immediately to provide finance for the fortification of key points in the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Urging the appointment of a Federal Parliamentary Select Committee to inquire into the "Introduction of foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Industrial Commission's declaration of £1/15/6 as the basic wage for female workers will be annulled by legislation which was introduced in the Legislative Assembly to-day. The Commission will be directed to fix the rate at 54 per…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Seven persons were killed and 20 injured in election riots in the village of Sannawa when opponents ambushed and fired on a band of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A by-election will not be necessary to fill the vacancy on the West Maitland Municipal Council, caused by the death of Ald. T. J. A. Dilley. Mr. W. F…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An investigation into what is termed the high cost of administration in the shire is one of the points in the Labor platform for the Lake Macquarie Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To the Anglo-Saxon the vagaries of the French electoral system are as incomprehensible as what are, for him, the quaint inversions of French law. In France you are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent and the poor pedestrian victim of a street accident is much more likely to be considered the criminal than the motorist who…
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