Mr. N. Thompson To Contest Council Election
Mr. Noel Thompson has been unanimously endorsed as a candidate for the Lismore City Council byelection by Girard's Hill Progress…
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Politics & elections, 1950
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Election Bids for Housewives' Vote
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—Socialist and Conservative bids for the coveted votes of housewives and middle class electors, were reflected last night in forecasts of the Conservative election manifesto, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Candidated For Council By-Election
It was understood last night that only two nominations had been received from candidates to contest the Lismore City Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.k. Election Seen As "Churchill's Greatest Chance"
FRANKFURT, Wednesday.— The British general election was described today by the "Allgemeine Zeilung" as "Churchill's greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Shrewd Old Man Got Results
Doctor Sir Earle Page has seized the spotlight this week. After appearing briefly in the publicity glare himself as the new attacker of the national health problem, he turned to his own…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parties Prepare for U.K. Election Zero Hour
LONDON, Sunday (AAP). — Political parties yesterday made bustling prsparations for the election zero hour—His Majesty's proclamation, which on February 3 ends the nation's first Labour dominated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Collim[?]n Parliament House Giving the £ More Value
All this week Prime Minister Menzies and a committee of Ministers and Government advisers have been making the first serious inroads into the problem of "putting more value into the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wave of Election Propaganda in U.K.
LONDON, Sunday (AAP)—Within a few hours of His Majesty's dissolution of Parliament, the country yesterday found itself caught in a tidal wave of propaganda, with a total of about 6000 rallies by all parties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.S.W. Pre-Election Ban Condemned by Press Executive
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The executive of the N.S.W. Country Press Association today condemned the Pre-election Press ban as "a direct negation of democracy"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Wednesday, February 8, 1950. Secrecy in State By-Elections
FROM 10 o'clock tonight no comment or advertisement must appear in newspapers or be made over the radio…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ardent Wooing for Housewives Vote by Political Candidates
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). — History may call this a "kitchen election", says Reuter. Britain's 12,000,000 housewives, with the general election only two weeks away, have never before been wooed so?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →10,000 Entitled to By-election Vote
Over 10,000 people are entitled to vote at the Lismore City Council by-election tomorrow. Messrs. II. S. Crawford and N. Thompson will contest the vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Labour to Face Early Bank Tilt
BANKING will be among the first items of contentious argument when the new Parliament assembles. By the middle of March the…
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Voting is compulsory for the Lismore City Council by-election today. There are nine voting centres…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swing Against Labour In By-election Reforms Cost[?] VOTES—McGIRR
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The swing against Labour in the recent Federal elections was continued in three N.S.W. State by-elsctions held yesterday. The Liberal candidate wen the Concord seat with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Rest for Churchill In Election Campaign
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—With only 12 days left before the general election, most Labour candidates, including the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee), and Conservative opponents called a truce to a week-long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N. Thompson Wins Council By-election: Majority of 928 Votes
Mr. Noel Thompson won Lismore City Council's by-elsction on Saturday with a majority of 928 votes ever his only, opponent, Mr. H. S. Crawford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traditional Ceremony For New Parliament
CANBERRA, Monday.—A Royal salute of guns will be fired as the Governor-General (Mr. McKell) arrives at Parliament House for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion Near Finn Parliament
HELSINKI, Tuesday (AAP).—A small bomb exploded just outside the main entrance to the Finnish Parliament building early today,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1864 Candidates For 625 Seats at British Elections
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). — More candidates than ever before—including more women—will contest seats in the general elections to be held on February 23…
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