Bitter Charge in By-election
SYDNEY, Sunday.--State Liberal leaders tonight strongly repudiated claims by the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that the Liberal Party had won the Coogee by-election by "the power of money…
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Politics & elections, 1948
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Communists Fail in Bid to Keep South Koreans From Polling Booths Many Dead in Preelection Clashes
SEOUL (Korea), Monday: When polling ended at 7 pm it was obvious that the Communist attempt to prevent an election in South Korea had utterly failed. Early reports indicated an almost maximum vote, ranging from 85 to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tension Rises: Korea's First Election Day
SEOUL, Monday (AAP). -- South Korea's seven million people began voting this morning in the country's first elections, The atmosphere was tense but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Tension Is Increasing
FEDERAL MINISTERS have scattered to the far corners of the Commonwealth following a closing Parliamentary week in which housewives demonstrated against inadequate price control and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Election Fight [?]ipped For Britain
LONDON, Tuesday:-- The Leader of the House of Commons, Mr Herbert Morrison, told the Labor Party…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Labour Looks to the Women
LABOUR politicians are counting on the vote of the womenfolk to carry the referendum. The Government has a new advertising agency--the former agency has gone over to the Liberals--and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House No Japanese Peace Conference
AUSTRALIAN Ministerial efforts to induce the Allies to hold an early Japanese Peace Conference prove unavailing. Even during the referendum campaign Prime Minister Chifley and Attorney General Dr. Evatt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smuts and Party Beaten In S.A. Election
CAPETOWN, Friday (AAP).-- South African Prime Minister (Field Marshal Smuts) has been defeated in his own constituency in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crushing "No" Vote by Richmond Quiet Polling Day
In one of the quietest polling days on record Richmond electorate voters on Saturday Returned an overwhelming majority for "No" at the referendum on rents and prices control. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cannot Lose in Czech Election
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).--The Czechoslovak electors will go to the polls today in an election for a hand-sicked list of deputies who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Power Was Being Puffed Away
PUFFING his favourite pipe in his Bathurst cottage, Prime Minister Ben Chifley adopted the same attitude as Field Marshal Jan Smuts when the people's votes went against him. Chifley shrugged his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Brief Brawl in Italian Parliament
ROME,Thursday (AAP). -- About 200 Italian Deputies used fists and furniture freely in a 20- minute brawl which followed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Action Before Next Vote
SWIFT ACTION by the Chifley Cabinet following the referendum defeat has left both Labour and Opposition members bewildered. Rank and file Labour men are divided between those delighted because…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Not So Many Candidates' Cars for Voters?
CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Federal Government considers the question of amending the Electoral Act to limit the use…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Tax Cuts Refused. But Hopes High
PRIME MINISTER Ben Chifley has refused to give any promises of taxation cuts in the forthcoming budget, despite the pressure of Labour's private members and the pungent criticism of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liberal Win !n Victorian By-Election
MELBOURNE, Sunday: The Liberal candidate, Mr E. R. T. [?]lds. 56, KC, leader of the Victorian Bar, scored a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Candidate for Miss Aust. Contest R.S.L. Meeting
The selection and nomination of a candidate for Murwillumbah Sub-Branch, of the RSL in the Miss Australia contest to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Upper Clarence Nominee For Norco Election
A special meeting of Urbenville branch of the P.P.U. was convened to discuss the advisability of nominating a candidate for a position…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House "Wait Until the Spring"
UNANIMOUS Caucus support has been given to Prime Minister Chifley and his Cabinet's decision to pass as many as possible of the unpopular wartime controls over to the States…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Republican Candidate for Vice-president
NEW YORK, Sunday: California's Governor. Mr. Earl Wanren nominated by the Republican Convention to contest…
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