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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1906

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Queanbeyan Election. Official Declaration of the Poll

The Age · Friday 13 April 1906 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon, a large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled in the Court. House to hear the official declaration of the poll in; the…

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Queanbeyan Election. Declaration of the Poll

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

At the Courthouse, Queanbeyan, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Mr. J. Gale, Returning Officer, declared the state of the poll as follows:—Hungerford, 1948; Ryrie, 2028…

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Queanbeyan Election Declaration of the Poll

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1906 · page 2

As already announced in our last issue, the official declaration of the poll took place on Wednesday, giving Colonel Ryrie a majority of 80…

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The British Labor Party Re Organisation of Parliament Shorter Tenure, Etc

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 5

According to the “Express” of 22nd January the Independent Labour Party bound by a pledge of Independence is going into the House of Commons next…

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The Moonshine Papers. Ii—parliamentary Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 2

The other day an otymologist of note informed me that the derivation of the word "election" is the Latin e out, and lectus past participle of the verb lego. He said that in politics it meant "the…

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Our Election Methods

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 4

Our American political methods may seem barbarous from the British standpoint. Still, we cling to our rudimentary notions of fair play. To howl down…

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Ancient Scottish Ceremony. Election of Representative Peers

The Age · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 4

The old Palace of Holyrood had recently one of its customary slumber.The occasion was the election of the…

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Latest Wires. Sydney, Monday. PARLIAMENT

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1906 · page 2

The Parliament has been further pronged until June 5, when it will meet for dispatch of business…

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An Invalid Election

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

At a special meeting of members of the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society on May 4, some gross irregularities in connection with the recent election of the…

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The Shires Act. Preparing for the Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 2

By a proclamation which appeared in the Government Gazette the week the appointment of five temporary councillors for each of the 134 shirts was announced…

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Queanbeyan Election

The Age · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 4

HERE is a curious aftermath of the recent by-election for Queanbeyan. Mr. J. H. Catts is the general secretary of the N. S. Wales Amalgamated…

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First Impressions of Parliament. a Labor Member’s Views

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 5

If I dare venture to tell the whole truth I shall have to confess, writes Mr Philip Snowden, M.P., in the “Daily Dispatch,” that my experience of Parliament so far…

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Local Government. Arrangements for the First Elections

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 2

THE first set of ordinances under the Local Government (Shires) Act was published in Wednesday's. Government Gazette. The ordinances…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated, Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, June 5, 1906. the Coming Federal Elections

The Age · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 2

IN, February last, Mr. Austin Chapman, member for this electorate and Post-master General in the Federal Ministry, addressed the electors have and in…

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The Braidwood Elections of Former Days

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 June 1906 · page 2

Ths celebration of the anniversary of the first Parliament under Responsible Government at Parliament House in Sydney the other day takes us back to the time of nearly fifty years ago…

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The Federal Parliament

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 2

THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT was formally opened to-day. After the reading of the Governor-General’s speech the House adjourned until to-morrow…

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Braidwood Elections of Former Years

The Age · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 5

THE following interesting items concerning former elections in Braidwood, are taken from the current issue of the DISPATCH:—…

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Federal Parliament

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

In the House of Representatives the debate on the Address-in-Reply unexpectedly came to an end. The plans for the redistribution of…

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Passing Notes. Parliament

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

From Melbourne once more comes the din of political conflict. Mr. Deakin is in possession of course, buttressed by the broad shoulders of the Labor. party…

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A Victorian By-election

The Age · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

THE second recent by-election to fill a vacancy in the Victorian State Parliament was contested on Thursday last, when the fight for the Barwon…

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