State Elections Labor’s Majority Reduced
There were anticipations in some quarters that the McGire Government would have been defeated at last Saturdayâs elections, but the Labor candidates…
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Politics & elections, 1947
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Municipal By-election Ex-Alderman's Nomination Rejected
Nominations for the vacancy on the Yass Municipal Council caused by the resignation of Mr. J. J. Cusack closed with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →May Be Clean Sweep at Next Tumut Shire Council Elections More Progressive Councillors Needed
With the Shire elections to be held at the end t of this year, the Tumut Progress and Tourist Association may embark on a campaign to replace practically the whole of the Tumut Shire Councillors with men with more progressive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migrants and Australians March On Parliament Over Horror Camp
CANBERRA, Friday: Nearly 300 building workers, almost half of them British migrants, marched on Parliament House to-day to demand better conditions at the Eastlake Hostel, where they are quartered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menzies Favors Doubling Size of Parliament
MELBOURNE Sunday: The Federal Opposition leader (Mr. Menzies) said to-night that the Federal Parliament should be doubled…
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The Federal Parliamentary Labor Party early on Thursday afternoon last agreed in principle to an, increase in the size of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →269,811 Did Not Vote Last Federal Election
Of 269,811 notifications sent to electors who failed to vote at the last Federal election, 116,876 have been returned undelivered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Election Probe Continuing Poll Not Yet Challenged
ALBURY, Sunday: Detective-Sergeant G. B. Munro, who has received instructions to inquire into certain alleged irregularities in connection with the conduct of the poll for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Labor Man’s View— Labor’s Return in State Election
The great vote of confidence in Labor registered at the polls on Saturday, May 3, was the more note worthy because it was accorded in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliament Increase Federal Proposal
A Cabinet sub-committee led by the Minister for the Interior, Mr. Johnson will investigate proposals for increasing the membership of the two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parliament of 180 Members Advocated
SYDNEY, Monday: A Commonwealth Parliament of 180 was advocated tonight by the Constitutional Association (H. M. Storey)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Elections Mr. Sheahan's Large Majority
Latest figures in the Yass electorate are N. C. Barber (Lib) 1089; J. J. Cusack (Ind.) 118; J. H. Mackay (CP) 3536; W. F. Sheahan (ALP)…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Gloucester is the only electorate in which the result of the voting in the state election is still in doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament of 180 Members Advocated
A Commonwealth Parliament of 180 members was advocated on Monday the Constitutional Association (Mr. H. M. Storey). He said Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Parliament Party Position
The last of the electorate figures to be finalised, Gloucester, saw the Independent sitting member unexpectedly beat the Country Party candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Billy Sheahan Elected to Cabinet Long Drawn Out Election by Caucus
Billy Sheahan, member for Yass has been elected to the State Cabinet—a distinct honor, well merited. The absence of tickets and failure of nominees consistently to poll the minimum quota of 27 votes required to elect Ministers were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arthur Fuller in Parliament Galvanised Iron
Mr. Fuller: As many farmers and others who are dependent upon the catchment of water from roofs for domestic use and are being greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Federal Member In Parliament Galvanised Iron
MR. PULLER: As many farmers and others who are dependent upon the catchment or water from roofs for domestic use are being greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Member in Parliament Battle of the Coral Sea
Mr. Fuller: In view of the vital importance of the Coral Sea battle to the eventual defeat of Japan in the recent World War will the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pun to Aid the World Suggested By Republican Candidate
"The United States should devote 10 per cent. of her total productions of goods and food for the next 10 years to building for world-wide peace,…
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