In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Chifley Sees Bitter Election Looming
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 2
Federal elections in 1949 are takings shape. In the last week both sides have been laying down the foundations upon which the struggle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Parliament Should Control Coal
The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 1
Mr. Charles Cutler, Country Party Member for Orange, said in Sydney tat control of the coal industry within the State of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today From Our Columist in Parliament House “Seething with Mistrust”
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 2
Battle of the secret documents underlies all speeches, all tactics in the current debates in the House of Representatives. Remembering how…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Paper Chase Continued by Security
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 2
Parliament has decided on the voices without being pressed by the Opposition parties to vote that the Government was justified in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House “Hell Hath No Fury”
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 2
Dame Enid Lyons has become the leading Liberal Party crusader for personal freedom. A few hours after she had been brusquely swept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Impending Drama on Documents
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1948 · page 2
Secret documents are still the main subject of Canberra conversation. An atmosphere of impending drama pervades Parliament House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coming Elections
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1948 · page 2
Candidates to represent the Liberal Party at the forthcoming Federal and State elections met a largely attended and enthusiastic meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disclosure of Members' Private Affairs in Parliament
The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 1
A strong protest was made in the Legislative Assembly by the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (Mr. D. H. Drummond) against the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scenes at Greek Parliament Member Thrown Out By Colleagues ATHENS, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 1
Amazing scenes developed inside, and outside the Greek Parliament yesterday when fellow members beat up the Liberal M.P., Gecrge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Canberra Today Form Our Columnist in Parliament House Censure Motion a Senseless Failure
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 2
Censure of the Government collapsed amid confusion and was rejected on the voices the other day. For the second time this session,…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 2
Opinion in Parliament House lobbies last week was that the current session of the 18th Federal Parliament will end on Friday,…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 4
Opinion In Parliament House lobbies last week was that the current session of the 18th Federal Parliament will end on Friday, November 26…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Unity to Change Federal Rule
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 2
Liberal and Country Party members are now alive to the urgency of more positive unity to defeat the present Government. High hopes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Visitors Making News
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 2
While politicians have been behaving like tired children in the House of Representatives, the real news has been made—and net only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Three Secrets Released
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 2
Three of the best secrets in years were released this week when Prime Minister, Ben Chifley, announced the cancellation of the Royal Tour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DECEMBER 1949 Election Tip Parliament Was In Benevolent Mood
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 3
Canberra’s political prophets believe, that the Government will hold the elections about the middle of next December…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →December 1949 Election Tip Parliament Was in Benevolent Mood
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 4
Canberra's political prophets believe that the Government will hold the elections about the middle of next December…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Long Bitter Session Ends
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 2
Parliament has gone in Christmas recess after a session in which all Federal electorates have been redistributed, members have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Council Election of President
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 5
At a special meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council held yesterday morning, Councillor Courtney Moore was re-elected President and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The State Opening of Parliament
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 4
For the first time since 1938 His Majesty the King drove with Her Majesty the Queen from Buckingham Palace to Westminster for the full-dress State Opening of Parliament. For many hours large crowds gathered along the route of the…
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