Controlled by Parliament Ruling on Staff Appointments
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The President of the Senate (Senator Brown) is to confer with the Speaker of the House of Representatives…
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Politics & elections, 1944
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Election Campaign in South Australia
ADELAIDE, Thurs.—The Premier (Mr. Playford) delivered his policy speech at Gumeracha to-day, at the opening of the State elections…
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Sir,—A well-known radio commentator recently declared that Rome, like Berlin and Tokio, must be destroyed; that this is the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. W. E. Dickson, M.L.C., was appointed campaign director of the Labour Party for the forthcoming State elections…
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Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, former Labor member for Maitland in the State Parliament, was last night elected campaign director…
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BOSTON, April 2. A.A.P.—"Wisconsin voters are being given assurances, reported to be direct from his headquarters, that General…
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While Newcastle Hospital derived about two-thirds of its revenue from the industrial subscription scheme, persons who paid…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday.—The New Zealand Government continued consideration of the contentious Rural Voting Bill to-day when…
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Sir,—There is a proposal to have compulsory voting at municipal elections. This should get the treatment it deserves, i.e., knocked out…
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SYDNEY: Lord Neith, Flight, Kiaree. Falcon Knight, and Easter Time were brilliant Doncaster Handicap gallopers at Randwick this morning. Shining Night, Cream Puff, Night Parade and Wellesley…
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A hint of an early State election was given in a circular to the Newcastle A.L.P. Municipal Assembly from the General Secretary (Mr. J…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — Efforts will be made to have a new basic wage fixed by Federal Parliament after the new Senate reassembles in…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) declined to-night to indicate the date of the next State elections. He agreed that it…
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The Assistant Stationmaster at Newcastle, Mr. Sweeney, has been declared by the Returning Officer (Mr. T. Kelly) as the selected…
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By a transposition of names, certain statements made at a meeting of the Mayfield ALP branch on Tuesday night were mistakenly…
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Merewether branch of the Australian Labour Party at its meeting last night received correspondence from the General Secretary (Mr. J. Stewart), stating…
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The chief interest of the Parliamentary elections to be held in Queensland to-morrow lies in the fact that Labour, under a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Feeling in the lobbies after the adjournment of both Houses of the State Parliament this afternoon appeared to favour a…
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BRISBANE.—At the State elections to-morrow the Labor Party will face face its strongest opposition since 1929. Led by the Lord Mayor…
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SYDNEY: A proclamation is expected from the Premier (Mr. McKell) within a week dissolving Slate Parliament…
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