New Fed. Parliament Will be Double-Size New System of Voting for Senators
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 3
CANBERRA, Wednesday: Australians this year will be called upon to elect a Parliament of double the number at present representing them. This year, too, they will vote according to a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Egg Marketing Board Election
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 5
The poll for the election of five producer-representatives to the Egg Marketing Board of New South Wales resulted in Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bidault Gets Vote of Confidence in the French Parliament
Junee Southern Cross · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 8
(A.A.P.) PARIS: The Premier Designate, Georges Bidault, was last night given a clear vote of confidence by the National…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Election Talk
Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 2
Sir—In Wednesdays "Adver-tiser" a Labor organiser is reported as saying that only those people who would exploit their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Famine Likely To Upset Election Hopes M.P's Advocate Change of Government Policy
Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 1
Stubborn refusal by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chiftey) to intervene in the serious petrol supply position before 15th November…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor Party’s Candidate Broadcast Address
Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 5
In a radio address, Mr, Tom McGrath, Labor Candidate for Farrer, said that the Australian Labor Party took pride and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last Session of 18th PARLIAMENT
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 4
The 18th Federal Parliament ended on Thursday night and was dissolved yesterday (Monday). The eight week' final session was devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Happy Ending to Near-record Parliament Political Battle Now In Full Swing
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 5
Frequent clashes between members and a good deal of hostility "on both sides of the House" marked the end of the 18th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federal Elections Mr. H. S. Roberton in Narrandera
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 2
There was a large attendance of electors at the R.S.L. Hall on Friday evening last to hear Mr. H. S. Roberton, the Australian Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Banking Still Election Issue
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 1
Opposition members insist, despite Labour statements to the contrary, that although the Party Council has decided against the Government the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Cannot Vote at Federal Election
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday—The Commonwealth Electoral Officer for N.S.W. Mr. R. W. Evans, said today that mote than 8000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Candidate Unpopular at Ganmain and Coolaimon
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 1
An angry street meeting of about 400 people at Coolamon pelted the Communist candidate for Farrer, Mr. W. E. Gollan,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Egg Marketing Board Election
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 6
The counting of the poll for the election of five producer representatives to the Egg Marketing Board of New Sough Wales was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dr. Evatt on Election Issue
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 2
MELBOURNE. Monday: The full employment which he said Labor had attained during its period in office was the keynote…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communist Candidate Driven Out of Ganmain and Coolamon
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 2
An angry street meeting of about 400 people at Coolamon on Saturday afternoon pelted the Communist candidate for Farrer, Mr. W. E. Gollan, with rotten eggs and tomatoes and drove him out of town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Eighteenth Parliament
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 November 1949 · page 2
Yesterday the Eighteenth Commonwealth Parliament was officially dissolved by the Governor-General (Mr. McKell), and with its demise ended a notable period in modern Australian politics…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Elections. Dec. 10
The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 2
The opening oloction address in the forthcoming Federal election for Hillston was delivered by Mr Hugh Kobe it on, the Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Election Campaign
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 2
Back in their electorates after a near-record Parliament of 280 sittings, a host of candidates are putting the final touches to their electioneering campaigns, which will reach a climax about the middle of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Elections Talk Of Pre-Easter Contest
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 1
The A.L.P. executive instead of the branches may choose the candidates for the 1950 State election…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ban on Election Propaganda Country Press Assn. Urges Act Repeal
Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 8
A resolution urging the repeal of sections of the Elections Act prohibiting of publication of any matter within 72 hours…
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