Now Is Not a Time For Parliament To Take a Holiday
Australia is about to enter the second week of a strike which has brought unemployment to hundreds of thousands, paralysed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections
Politics & elections, 1949
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 17
Marjorie Lawrence in Parliament
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The singer, Marjorie Lawrence, who, with her husband, Dr. King, is the guest of the Governor-General…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDITORIAL Parliament Should Stay Put
RE[?] assurances have been given by the Prime Minister that the Government's part in the present crisis is to maintain the authority of the arbitration system, which is, in effect…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliament Adjourns Early Meeting "If Necessary"
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The House of Representatives will be called together earlier than the last week in August or the first week of September if the need arises…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament's Ill-timed Holiday
The Federal Parliament has shown small sense of responsibility in adjourning for two months. Not since the war has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spying Janitor Made Member Of Parliament
OTTAWA, July 8. A.A.P.—A former Czech Government official, Dr. Imrich Rosenberg, said his former janitor was made a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communists To Hold Elections For All Korea
SEOUL, July 8. A.A.P. — According to Pyongyang Radio the North Korean Communists "have issued a manifesto declaring that general…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Defeat In Victorian Boilermakers' Elections
MELBOURNE: Attempts by Communists and their supporters to capture key positions in the Victorian branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Labour Candidate for New England
SYDNEY, Friday—The State A.L.P. Executive endorsed Mr. W. Wilson, of Glen Innes, as Labour Party candidate for New England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early U.K. Election Predicted
LONDON, July 17. A.A.P.—Britain's economic crisis might force an early election, the Chairman of the Conservative Party…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Labour Wins By-election
LONDON, July 22. A.A.P.—Labour retained the West Leeds Division seat in the House of Commons at the by-election caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By-election Date After Strike
SYDNEY, Monday.—The date for the Redfern by-election will be fixed after the coal strike has been settled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fight in French Parliament
PARIS, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Communists and anti-Communists swung fists, slapped, gouged and knocked off each other's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reds Try To Enter Israel Parliament
TEL AVIV, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Five policemen and five demonstrators were hurt yesterday when Communist-led…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Banking Election Issue
MELBOURNE: Australians would remember that the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Candidate For A.W.U. State Secretary
Northern Organiser of the A.W.U. (Ald. T. Breen) is a candidate this year for the position of State Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blueprint For U.K. Elections Reactions To Docks Hold-up Fred Peterson's London Diary
LONDON, Thurs.: In newsreel movie houses at the week-end Britons cheered pictures of troops unloading food on London docks, cheered Churchill, gave Cripps sympathetic silence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opposition May Seek Meeting Of Parliament
SYDNEY: Unless the coal situation improves materially next week, the Federal Opposition will probably demand an immediate special meeting of Federal Parliament to discuss the crisis. Before Parliament rose the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Early Meeting of Parliament
CANBERRA, Friday.—Federal Parliament will not resume till August 31 or September 7, despite the coal crisis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.L.P. Move In Ironworkers' Union Elections
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A meeting of A.L.P. industrial groups in the Federated ironworkers' Association decided to-day to launch a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →