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Northern Rivers · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1949

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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Australian Isolation Shaken

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 6

WAR TO THE NEAR NORTH of Australia was the dominating theme of the final Cabinet meeting for the year. Australian isolationism received another shaking. Ministers were faced…

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British Elections Likely This Year

Northern Star · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (AAP). — All political parties are preparing for the general elections this year, says the "Sunday Despatch"…

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Parties Manoeuvre For Early Austrian Election

Northern Star · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 8

VIENNA (By Airmail).—Leaders of the People's Party, Austria's largest parliamentary party at the moment, have given authoritative statements during recent days that elections cannot be expected in Austria…

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Japan's Complex Political Scene New Election Soon

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 3

TOKYO.—Already confused by some of the clauses of their new democratic constitution, the Japanese people, after less than three months of the Yoshida administration, have become lost…

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Parliament Resumes Next Month

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA. Thursday: The reassembly of the two Houses of Parliament was announced today in the Comonwealth Gazette…

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Five Candidates for Mayor of South Coast

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: At least five candidates will contest the Mayoralty of the new town of South Coast at the election in…

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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Moving Nearer To India

Northern Star · Saturday 15 January 1949 · page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN decision to send delegates to the conference convened by the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, to discuss the Indonesian problem, is considered by the…

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Terrorists for Parliament

Tweed Daily · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: Two leaders of the outlawed Jewish terrorist organisation. The Stern Gang, who are on trial at Haifa…

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Much Interest in May Elections

Tweed Daily · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 2

Interest is quickening in the May elections for the newly-created Town of South Coast, embracing the coastal strip from Southport to the border. The present Mayors of…

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U.K. Labour Told Plan For Election Success

Northern Star · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday (AAP).— Lord President of the Council, Mr. Herbert Morrison, urged Labour Party workers to get the Tommy…

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£500 Sought To Aid Election Of Labor In Cowper

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 4

Members of the Cowper Federal Electoral Council of the Australian Labor Party decided at their meeting last week to set £500 as an objective…

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"Labour on Trial At Elections Over Defence Policy"

Northern Star · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.—The Labour Socialist Government's trial would come later this year when the jury of electors would decide the truthfulness and the degree of faithfulness with which they have…

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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Tax Hopes Please Prophets

Northern Star · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 6

TWO OPPOSING prophets were happy this week. Forecasts of 1949 as a tax-reduction year received much support when the Treasury released the figures of money collected from the…

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C'gatta Owners, Occupiers' Assn. Been Revived to Contest Town of Sth. Coast Election

Tweed Daily · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 2

At an enthusiastic meeting, attended by more than 40 interested persons, the Coolangatta Owners and Occupiers' Association was revived on Friday night, with a membership of about 70. It was decided to affiliate with the Council of South Coast Progress…

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Labor Leading in By-election

Tweed Daily · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday: The Labor Party candidate has a lead of 976 votes in the Prahram State by-election today…

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A.L.P. Endorses A. Bryen For Federal Election

Northern Star · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 4

Selected and endorsed to contest Richmond at the next Federal election is 29-year-old Alexander Lindsay Bryen, the youngest candidate…

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Labour Wins Vic. Election

Northern Star · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. — With fewer than 1000 postal votes to count, and with a lead of 822, the Labour candidate is certain to win…

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Communist Gain in Jap. Elections

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 6

TOKIO, Monday: The Japanese Communists won 26 seats in the elections yesterday, according to incomplete returns today…

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Election Fever in Palestine

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 1

TEL AVIV, Tuesday: As Jews and Arabs went, to the polls todays to elect the first Jewish Parliament for…

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United Progress Bodies Decide to Have No Mayoral Candidate

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

A Mayoral candidate will not be selected by the United Council of Progress Associations and Allied Organisations of the South Coast to lead its team of 10 aldermanic candidates at the forthcoming South Coast local authority elections…

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