The Elections
The sitting Labour member for Eden-Monaro, Mr. A. D. Fraser, has increased his lead over Mr. A. G. Keys (Lib.) and is now 735 votes ahead. Mr. Fraser…
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Politics & elections, 1951
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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Australia Has New Men for Action
The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, has selected three new men for his new Cabinet. They are widely known for their strong individual drive and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Sun Spots Over Canberra
Scientists are looking to the Canberra heavens to help Australia. While External Affairs officers and the Prime Minister’s Department are busily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Government’s First Red Challenge
First challenge to the Federal Government came from the watersiders. Cabinet met in Canberra on Monday to find the large round table…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Communist in Parliament House Communist Crackdown Begins
Crackdown on Australian Communist leaders in key unions has begun. Prosecutions and security police raids are only the preliminary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Honourable G. V. Mavalankar Speaker of the Indian Parliament, broadcasting in the British Corporation’s Marathi Service to India
Shri Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar, who recently attended the opening of the new Chamber of the British House of Commons, was a lawyer, a Sanskrit scholar and a linguist until his legal work took him to Ahmedebad, where Gandhi had his headquarters. There he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House an Era Closes
Labour has selected its new leader and must now work during the next two years to prove itself a worthy alternative administration. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Labour Breaks with Tradition
Labour has broken with tradition by electing two new leaders who have a middle class backround. Neither the new Leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Tantalising Tactics on Reds
Prime Minister R. G. Menzies is tantalising, the Labour Party again. Like the mythical ancient King Tantalus, every time the Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Bitter Referendum Fights Loom
Labour men were left only a few minutes after the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, speech on the Communist refrendum to make up their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Vital Sittings End Until Spring
Federal Parliament has closed down until the Spring after one of the most dramatic and far-reaching sittings since the war. Jubilee pomp…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Inflation Crisis Staples Ministry
Latest basic wage adjustments have startled Ministers more than any previous signs of the shifting sands of Australia’s current…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Hall Inflation Campaign Launched
Prime Minister Menzies on Monday strove to rouse the nation to wage a war on the sconomic front so that the nation may be ready to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Proces Will Rise Much More Yet
Prices will continue to rise in the next six months and , the Federal Government is working on the as-sumption that the basic wage will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Kapanese Pirates Annoy Canberra
Australia has greatly disturbed Federal Ministers. It has strengthened the international case for more restrictions upon Japanese and less…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House [?]Rim Economic Week
Canberra has been through a grim week of economics and during the last few days Ministers have been getting ready for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Canberra Deserted by Politicians
The National Capital is deserted by the Government. If an international incident blew up there would be no one here to receive the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Red Referendum Warming Up
The red referendum campaign is warming up. Prime Minister Menzies was taken completely by surprise when interjectors broke loose in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Parliament of Local Government Goes to Lismore
Two hundred and fifty delegates representing councils in country towns and the suburbs of Sydney, will soon be converging on Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Government Plans Quick Action
Communists will be rooted out of Australian trade unions and the Federal public service by Christmas if the majority of States and electors…
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