Eire Elections
LONDON, Friday: The latest state of the parties in the Eire election is: Fianna Fail 52, Fine Gael 21,…
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Politics & elections, 1948
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Alleged Fraud At By-Election
SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Detectives arrested two men on Saturday for an alleged voting irregularity at Glebe by-election. In a Bankstown by-election, a woman Independent won a seat in the heart of Premier McGirr's…
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LONDON, Thursday: Air Vice-Marshal Bennett, who has announced that he will stand as Liberal candidate in the North Croydon by-elections, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Wheat May Decide
THE FATE of the Chifley Government may depend on the mood of State Ministers of Agriculture who assembled in Canberra in the last few days for the Australian Agricultural Council. Ministers from the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caucus Approves of Larger Parliament: 121 Seats in Reps
CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- The Federal Parliamentary Labour Party to-night decided to increase the membership of She Commonwealth Parliament to 121 in the House of Representatives and 60 in the Senate. By a two to one majority the party carried, on a…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: A message from Lake Success says: The spokesman for the Korean Peoples' Representative Assembly (Miss Louise Yim) urged that "Little Assembly," which takes up the Korean problem…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coraki Diggers Defer Election of President
CORAKI, Tuesday. -- Coraki subbranch of the R.S.L., at its annual meeting, deferred election of a President for 1948 for one month…
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LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (AAP). -- A spokesman for the Korean Peoples representative on the Assembly (Miss Louise Yim) tonight…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- An electric voting machine will be installed in the Federal Parliament to record votes during…
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BAGHDAD, Friday: Iraqi Government after a six-hour meeting, today dissolved Parliament because "it does not represent the nation and was illegally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Wheat Walkout
WHEAT crowds out all other topics in Canberra since the angry walk-out of wheatgrowers from the conference room in Parliament House. Even the dollar crisis and falling…
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Loyal Empire Lodge No. 226 held its annual meeting in the Corndale Hall. There was a good attendance. Election of officers resulted:…
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IF the highly contentious question of motive is treated as a separate problem, the plan for a larger Federal parliament is…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Powers vested in Parliament by the Constitution, which clearly intended giving the Commonwealth Parliament nothing short of power over the whole monetary banking system, included…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Rural Labour Problem
PRIME MINISTER Ben Chifley has informed Country Party Leader Artie Fadden that "there is little prospect of significant recruiting to rural industries." He made this observation replying to Fadden's criticism of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elections to Be Held in Korea
NEW YORK, Friday: The "Little Assembly" approved an American resolution calling on the Korea Commission to hold "national" elections in Korea, despite the Soviet North Korean zone's refusal to co-operate…
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RICHMOND (Virginia), Friday (AAP). -- The Governor of Virginia (William Tuck) to-day asked the General Assembly to pass…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Unless the Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) and constitutional experts can surmount unforeseen constitutional…
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WRIGHTSVILLE (Georgia), Thursday: Negroes were absent from the polls in yesterday's primary voting after the Klu…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2000 Strikers Storm Parliament House: Caucus Bars Reps
BRISBANE, Friday.--Following meetings of 500 railwaymen and 2000 wharf labourers to-day more than 2000 striking railwaymen and wharfies stormed Parliament House where the Parliamentary Labour Caucus was discussing the strike and sent a deputation to the…
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