Election Posters For Communists Criticised
A "crowd of ragtail boodlums" was making the district look like a rubbish-heap by plastering up Communist Party election signs. Ald…
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Politics & elections, 1946
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Appeal for Woman Candidate
Sir,—Mr. E. H. Macpherson in his resume of the various political parties standing for the Newcastle Federal seat overlooked the woman…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—If sufficient evidence could be obtained, prosecutions would be launched for betting on the elections, electoral…
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The Mayor has called to order one of ten candidates for the Newcastle seat for disfiguring the streets with election slogan, and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Depressions were avoided, not by preaching or practising a gospel of scarcity, but by…
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Sir.—Mr. E. H. Macpherson ("N.M.H." 13/9/46) commented on candidates for the Newcastle Federal seat…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—With a week remaining before polling day, there is not yet any indication of a considerable swing against the Federal…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The newly-constituted Australian Meat Board would not be chosen until after the elections the Minister for Commerce…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A new executive to control Sydney sub-branch of the Road Transport Workers' Union was appointed at a meeting…
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LONDON, Sept. 23.—Another battle for Berlin will be staged in four weeks' time. The new City Council of Berlin will be elected by…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — The responsibility for industrial relations lay more with the employers than Governments, Mr. R. G. Casey said…
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BRISBANE, Monday.— When Mr. G. Olive, Australian Service Party candidate for Brisbane, returned from Sydney, where he had been…
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SYDNEY: The bitterest fight in the Federal elections is in the Reid electorate. Mr. J. T. Lang, one-time colossus of N.S.W. Labor, is opposing the Labor…
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BRISBANE: Friends have provided a bodyguard for former Wing-Commander Gordon Olive, D.F.C., Service Party candidate for Brisbane electorate, since he attacked Com-munists last week. Mr. Olive said that Communists in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An increase in the membership of the House of Representatives and the Senate would be considered if the Labour Party…
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Messrs. R. Cameron and G. Booth, Ms.L.A., left Newcastle yesterday to spend a week in Robertson electorate in support of the Labour candidate…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Full A.L.P. and Communist tickets will be sponsored in the annual election of officers of the Electrical Trades Union…
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Mr. G. H. Bland, an accountant, is standing for the…
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MELBOURNBE, Wednesday.—Two candidates in the Batman electorate have the same surname, and each is listed on electioneering dodgers as…
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The Acting Assistant State Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (Mr. F. Cambell) who is a member of the A.L.P. Central Executive…
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