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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1978

12 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Queen candidate

Western Magazine · Monday 30 January 1978 · page 5

Lexie Hopkins is Miss Rotary/Rotaract in Cowra's Festival of the Lachlan Valley Festival…

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Alp Bends a Rule for Its Older Candidates

The Western Herald · Friday 9 June 1978 · page 3

The ALP will endorse the bending of a party rule so that three of their candidates can stand for pre-selection…

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Charity Princess Candidates the Eight Entrants in Back to Bourke Week Princess Competition

The Western Herald · Friday 23 June 1978 · page 10

Jocelyn Atkinson (Rotary Club) Joy Driscoll (Youth Club)…

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Catholics as Freemasonry candidates

Western Magazine · Monday 21 August 1978 · page 7

I have been asked my reaction to a man saying to me, “I would like to join the masons but I am a Catholic”. I have been asked my reaction to a man saying to…

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Outback Contact Meat Industry Authority Election

The Western Herald · Friday 8 September 1978 · page 5

The Meat Industry Authority Act provides for the election of five producer representatives to the authority, one to be elected for each of the five electoral districts…

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State Elections October 7th

The Western Herald · Friday 15 September 1978 · page 1

The New South Wales Premier, Mr. Neville Wran, announced on Tuesday of this week that Elections to fill all seats in the State Parliament would take place on…

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State Elections Roads the Key Issue

The Western Herald · Friday 22 September 1978 · page 7

Roads will lie the key issue in Castlereagh Electorate on October 7, the National Country Party Candidate John Hickmott said when officially opening…

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Election promises

Western Magazine · Monday 2 October 1978 · page 7

SIR — With the NSW State Election only a couple of days away and knowing what short memories we all have, I think it is time to recall some of the legislation the present government introduced into…

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N.S.W. State Elections Three Candidates Fighting for Castlereagh Seat

The Western Herald · Friday 6 October 1978 · page 1

Mr. Jack Renshaw, the sitting M.P. and holding the important portfolio of Treasurer in the N.S.W. State Parliament, will be opposed by two other candidates…

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F.A.M. Candidates

The Western Herald · Friday 6 October 1978 · page 17

F.A.M. Candidates held a meeting in the C.W.A. Rooms, Bourke which was attended by a number of local citizens. Mrs. Frieda Brown and Mr. Mal…

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CWA contest candidate

Western Magazine · Monday 30 October 1978 · page 5

Newly-elected president of Dubbo Evening Branch of the Country Women's Association, Mrs Roselee Molkentin, is her branch's entrant in die Country women of the year contest…

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