Peace Prize Candidates
OSLO, Sat. (A.A.P.): The Nobel Institute has published a list of 18 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize…
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Politics & elections, 1948
229 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 12
U.S. Warships To Stand By; Korean Election
SEOUL, April 11. A.A.P.—Two United States warships will anchor in Korean waters, American ground forces will be placed on the alert…
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Miss Coreen Shearer, of Electric Lamp Manufactures sub-branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association, has been chosen as the union's…
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The pious hope that the widening of the Commonwealth Parliament will make for a better quality of member is a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East v. West In Italian Election
ROME, April 13.—Stalin and Marshall are bigger figures in the crucial Italian general election than any local politician. Next Sunday's vote will be less…
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Contestants in the Trades Hall Council May Queen competition. From left: Coreen Shearer (Federated Ironworkers), Weady Allan…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.—Three communist officials of Auckland Trades Council were defeated in the annual election to-night…
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ROME, Fri. (O.S.R. & A.A.P.): With only two days to go before the Italian elections, campaigning is working up to fever pitch. In the northern industrial section of Milan, planes, cars…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night he would like to see as many women as men in Parliament…
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A request that any contemplated pensions for Parliamentarians be put on a par with pensions received by ex-servicemen will be…
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The Italian people will go to the polls to-morrow to elect their first postwar Parliament. Leading figures in this crucial…
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Italy's 29 million electors will vote to-morrow at an election of vital concern to the civilised world. The issue is between…
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ROME, April 19.—The second day of the Italian elections opened with the Communists alleging electoral trickery for which they claimed 20 priests and nuns had been arrested…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Independent and Communist Party candidates have nominated for Coogee by-election on May 8…
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A seventh candidate has been entered for the May Queen competition. She is Miss Norma Edden, nominated by the A.E.U. Political…
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Latest official figures in the Italian elections are:— SENATE Christian Democrats 9,246,443. Popular Front (Communists and Left Wing Socialists)…
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ROME, April 21. A.A.P.—Widespread rioting has followed the victory of the Christian Democrats in the Italian election on Sunday…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Opposition amendment seeking a referendum before the size of Federal Parliament is increased was defeated by 32 votes to 25 in the House of Representatives to-day…
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CANDIDATES IN THE MAY QUEEN CONTEST, which will end on Monday: Left to right (above), Misses Norma Edden (Amalgamated Engineering Union), Minnie Pearson (Sheet Metal Workers), Wendy Allen (Metal Trades), Delma…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Bigger Federal Parliament
Arguments in favour of increasing the membership of the Federal Parliament are so convincing that even the Opposition…
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