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Politics & elections, 1909

2,398 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 120

Saleyards Site. Parliament Invited to Inspect

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 17 August 1909 · page 14

The committee appointed by various pastoral associations and representatives of the meat trade generally, who are advocation the erection of new…

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Federal Parliament. Weekly Retrospect. the Barren Budget. the High Commissionership. Melbourne

The Star · Tuesday 17 August 1909 · page 7

Tuesday's sitting saw one of those exhibitions of Ministerial incapacity which are becoming unfortunately too frequent under the present regime. When the Old-age…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 12

The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. The MINISTER FOR LANDS, in answer to…

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Above the Speaker. Sketches in Parliament

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 15

"House adjourned at 8.30 p.m." This is the line with which "Hansard" concludes its report of the proceedings on Tuesday, August 10, in the Legislative Assembly. The early rising…

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"In the Usual Way." Member of Parliament "Questioned."

Evening News · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 9

Some fun was occasioned in the Legislative Assembly last evening when Mr. Broughton put a question to the member, for Orange. Mr. Broughton wanted to know, through the…

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Potato Blight. Victorian Importations. Need for Drastic Action. Discussion in Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 9

Mr. BEEBY moved the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday to draw attention to the necessity of immediately prohibiting the importation of potatoes from the State of…

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Essence of Parliament. Price of the Poor" Man's Potato. Irish and Australian Blights. the Kind of Smells They Have at Alexandria

Evening News · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 9

The member of Parliament who arrests the ordinary progress of business on private members' night by taking advantage of the Standing Order which permits him to move the…

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State Parliament the Potato Scare Victorian Shipments. Should They Be Prohibited? Mr. Beeby Moves the Adjourment. House Counted Out. Potato Trouble

The Star · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 2

Mr. Beeby moved the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly fast night to draw attention to the necessity of immediately prohibiting the importation of…

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Notes and Anticipations Candidates for the Spring Handicaps. Derby Possibilities—results at Rosehill. Favel a Winner—Patronatus Unlucky—Peaths of Messrs, S. Hordern and T. Ivory—Caulfieid Form—The Totalisator In England—General Notes. Selections for Rosehill. A.J.C. Derby Candidates

Referee · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 1

WITH the commencement of the A.I.C. Spring Meeting only a little over six weeks away, training work at the various tracks…

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Some Epsom Candidates

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1909 · page 13

If the form, or want of it, displayed by a majority of what may be styled the fashionable runners at Rosehill on Saturday last was reliable, a big percentage of them could be dismissed without the slightest hesitation from…

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In Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 6

The Vagrancy Bill and the State Debt and Sinking Fund Bill were read the second time In the Legislative Council last night, and passed through committee. The further…

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The "Blight " in Parliament

Evening News · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 4

"Private members' night" in the Legislative Assembly seems to keep butting up against the same old hard luck. On Tuesday in last week the House adjourned at half-past 8, and this…

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State Parliament. Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 8

The Deputy President (Mr. W. J. Trickett) took the chair at 4.30 p.m. INEBRIATES BILL. This bill was read the third time…

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State Parliament. Wednesday, August 18

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 8

In the Legislative Council, The Inebriates (Amendment) Bill was read the third time and forwarded to the Legislative Assembly…

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Essence of Parliament. the Forestry Bill Threshing Out the Details

Evening News · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 8

The problem of how to make two trees grow where only one grew before occupied the attention of members during the greater part of yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Assembly. In…

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Australia in Debate the Picture of a Parliament. Seen Through English Spec Tacles

Watchman · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 5

It was the best of good fortune that threw me, as a fellow-passenger in the express from Adelaide to Melbourne, into the company of Sir Frederick Holder,…

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In and Out of Parliament Sparks From the Federal Anvil. State Political Gossip

Watchman · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 1

More Northern Territory Bill. The member for Grey (Mr. Alexander Poynton) addressed the House on what he knew of the Terra Incognita Australiae. And he should…

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State Parliament the Form Bill. Considered in Committee. Measure Adversely Criticised a Late Sitting

The Star · Thursday 19 August 1909 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Carmichael moved the adjournment of the House to draw attention to the action of the Fisheries Board in their treatment of oyster…

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In Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 6

When the Legislative Assembly adjourned, shortly before half-past 1 o'clock yesterday morning, ten clauses of the Forestry Bill out of 30 contained in the measure had been…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 8

The Speaker took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. MOTOR TRAFFIC BILL. The Motor Traffic Bill was further…

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