Compulsory Voting at Shire and Municipal Elections Opposed by Councils
The executive of the Local Government Association has expressed opposition to compulsory voting in municipal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections
Politics & elections, 1936
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RAMSAY McDONALD Successful at By-election LONDON
The former Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay McDonald, who lost his seat at the last general election, was to-day re-elected at the by-election at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Wins West Australian Elections
PERTH.—As a result of Saturday's State elections the Labor Government has been returned with 26 seats. The Country Party win 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telegraphic New Sydney. 2 p.m. Election of Labor Leader
The Metropolitan Conference of the State Labor party, by 82 votes to 26, confirmed a decision of the last Easter conference, which invested…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Election Result
Cabinet met at noon and announced the Left parties had obtained a majority at the election…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Dairy Produce Board Election Op Producers Representatives
The Dairy Produce Export Control Act was recently amended by the Commonwealth Parliament to provide for the alteration of the title of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Iron-bound Ballot Boxes For Tramway Elections SYDNEY
Stringent precautions are being taken connection with the elections of the Tramway Employees Union which are to be held on April 3rd. It is [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Polling Days “How to Vote” Cards
“That all forms of canvassing, together with the distribution of “How-to-vote” Cards, be prohibited on election days for Federal and State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Produce Board Elections
Members of the Union are reminded that the duty of enrolling for the coming election of a producer representative to the newly constituted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Ministers Election by Party Members SYDNEY
At the U.A.P. Convention to-day it was resolved that State Minister should be elected by members of the Party in the Legislative Assembly, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Election of Ministers U.a.p. Recommendation
At the U.A.P. Conference in Sydney last week the Balgowlah branch submitted a proposal to the effect that Ministers should he elected by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Elections
PARIS.—The final ballot for the 433 constituencies passed off quietly to-day. Fewer people voted, and a definite swing to the Left was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Municipal By-election Ratepayers’ Association Candidate
The adjourned meeting of the Ratepayers and Citizens’ Association for the purpose of endorsing a candidate to contest the by-election for the seat on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →P. & C. Association Election of Officers
The attendance was small, and ladies in the majority at the adjourned meeting of the Queanbeyan Parents and Citizens’ Association held on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Government Elections (To the Editor of the "Dispatch")
Sir,—The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, is reported as stating at the Shires Conference that the Government proposed to apply…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal by Election Mr. M. O’Rourke Elected
A good deal of interest was taken in the municipal by-election on Saturday for the vacancy on the Queanbeyan Council, created by the death of Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Parliament Meets
The State Parliament met today, the principal business being a decision of the 1936-37 budget and a tentative programme of public works…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Labour Policy For Federal Elections
Labour’s fighting platform for the Federal elections, based on an elaborated policy decide on by the Federal Labour conference, will be drawn up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic News Sydney 2 p.m. Vaucluse By-election
The latest Vaucluse figures are:— Robson (Ind. U.A.P.), 10,544; Foster (U.A.P.), 6,296; informal, 470. Only a few votes remain to be counted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Racing Letter the Stewards' Right to Change a Jockey On a Fancied Race Candidate. Palking, The Freak, Gold Pod and Osculum in their Great Warwick Farm Form
Dick Wootion recards The Freak [?] Epsom proposition, and a few weeks ago he tried to engage Billy [?] for the horse in the big…
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