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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1924

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Educating Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 July 1924 · page 2

A film dealing with venereal disease is to be shown in Parliament House on Wednesday…

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Telegraphic News. SYDNEY Thursday, 4 p.m. PARLIAMENT

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 July 1924 · page 2

It is intended to close the censure debate this evening. The result is not in doubt, as the Government have a majority of eight or nine…

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Seeking Selection Labor Candidates Speak

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 July 1924 · page 3

Outside the Royal Hotel on a Saturday night speeches were delivered by Messrs. J. M. Tully, T. Lavelle, and J…

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Federal Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 3

The Defence equipment Bill passed through all stages in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Bruce said the Ministry had had an…

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What Parliament Can Do. (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 7

Sir,— In the course of a recent address at the Communist Hall it was stated that Parliament was instituted in the interests of the capitalistic…

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More Bungling. Hospital Election

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 7

In our last issue we referred to the fracture of Section 8 Part II of the Public Hospitals Act in connection with the present ballot for the…

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Braidwood Hospital Election of New Committee

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1924 · page 3

The adjourned special meeting of subscribers was held at the Council Chambers on Thursday night last to receive the scrutineers' report in…

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Next Elections. Compulsory Voting

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1924 · page 5

At the next Federal elections voting will be compulsory, and the Comwealth Chief Electoral Officer is already snaking preparations for the…

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Selection of Candidates. (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1924 · page 4

Sir,—Candidates are being "selected" by both the old political parties in view of the forthcoming State general election. Both parties are afraid…

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Test for Parliamentary Candidates

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 October 1924 · page 3

M. Dixon (Goulburn) writes:—There is ample evidence that in their speeches during the forthcoming State election campaign both the…

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British Election Issue

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1924 · page 1

The British Parliament has become even more captious than our own, and it has been guilty of much paltriness at one time and another…

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Latest Cable News. British Election

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1924 · page 2

The manifestoes of the three political parties are probably the lengthiest and wordiest on record in Britain. The Conservative manifesto…

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Latest Cable News. British Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 October 1924 · page 2

Mr. Lloyd George declares that no more will Labor have his support. He made this statement at the opening of the Liberal campaign…

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British Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 October 1924 · page 7

With the opening speech delivered by the defeated Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay Macdonald), the whirlwind election campaign in Great Britain is…

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British Elections

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 4

Scenes of the wildest enthusiasm characterised the arrival of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald in his constituency of Aberavon. He was greeted by a vast…

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Latest Cable News. British Elections

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1924 · page 7

After a week's campaigning in Great Britain the election issue has been narrowed down to one of for or against Labor. The campaign is…

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Latest Cable News. British Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 October 1924 · page 2

With only a week to go for polling day all the British political parties are working at top pressure. Increasing confidence of success is…

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Latest Cable News. the Elections

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 October 1924 · page 2

Contrary to all precedents the British election campaign has caused no depression on the Stock Exchange. A sensation has been caused in…

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Latest Cable News. British Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 October 1924 · page 3

The latest returns to hand last night showed the state of parties, including those elected unopposed, to be:—Conservatives, 40; Labor, 18;…

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British Elections

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 4

The Conservatives have been returned to power with an overwhelming majority of 202 over the combined strength of all the other parties…

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