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Politics & elections, 1914

2,696 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 135

The Senate. Selecting the Candidates. Liberals and Farmers

The Land · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 6

The conference between representatives of the Federal Liberal Association and the Farmers and Settlers' Association, to arrive at an agree,…

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A By-election. Change for Mr. Masterman. London, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 6

Mr. C. F. G. Masterman, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and recently Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who was defeated at a recent bye-election for South West…

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Candidates for the Senate. a Liberal-F.S.A. conference

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 1

A conference took place in Sydney on Monday between the executive of the Federal Liberal League and the executive of the Farmers' and…

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The Farrer Scholarship. This Year's Candidates

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 3

The trustees of the Farrer Memorial Fund in Sydney on Monday considered applications for the research scholarship for the entitling: year…

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Interesting P. P. Board Election

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 3

More than usual interest is being takes on [?] of the directors on the M[?] Pastures Protection Boar[?] for which close on…

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Electoral Rolls. Wholesale Duplications. Voting After Death. How Elections Are Fought and Won. Startling Statements in Sydney

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 8

Can a person have more than one vote? Docs death end all from the voting viewpoint?…

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Federal Elections. Preference to Be Main Issue. Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 7

The Government is making the second reading debate on the Preference Bill a full-dress debate. The Attorney-General led with a long argument against preference, and this…

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Federal Capital. Parliament House Design. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 22

Now that Mr. Griflin has returued to Australia steps are being taken to nominate the board which is to select the prize design for the Federal Parliament House at Canberra…

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More Disorder. in Federal Parliament. a Labor "Hold-up."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The proceedings in the House of Representatives this morning. opened with another row. The Labor members began to fly at the…

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Western Australian Elections. Candidates for the Upper House. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 22

The biennial elections of the Legislative Council will take place to-morrow. In the north and metropolitan provinces there will be no contests, owing to the fact that Mr…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, May 10, 1914. the Federal Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 20

Some few months ago there appeared to England a letter from Mr. John Galsworthy, lamenting' the inability of Parliament to deal with matters of genuine…

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"Scots' Parliament." Single-chamber Legislature Bill That Was Talked About. London

The Sun · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 7

The Scottish Liberal party in the House of Commons introduced yesterday a bill under which it was proposed to give Scotland a separate legislature of one chamber, to be…

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Victorian Elections. May Be Help in September. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1914 · page 22

The Premier (Mr. Watt) has announced that the State Parliament will reassemble on June 24. As it is probable that the general election will be fixed for some timo in…

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South Australian Parliament Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 10

The Executive Council has issued a proclamation summoning Parliament to meet for the despatch of business on Thursday, July 16…

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Women's "Parliament." London, Monday Morning

The Sun · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 8

Mr. Harold Gorst, the well-known journalist and author, is establishing a mock parliament for the purpose of training women in the procedure of discussing social and…

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Australia's Present House of Parliament at Melbourne

Construction : Weekly Supplement to Building · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 3

Which will eventually be vacated in favor of a building at Canberra for the design of which building a world's competition is shortly to be conducted…

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Western Australian Politics. Legislative Council Elections. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 10

The biennial elections in connection with the Legislative Council took place on Saturday. Added interest was lent to the contest by reason of the strenuous efforts made by the…

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Willoughby Municipal Election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 May 1914 · page 6

Two nominations have been received by the returning officer (Mr. G. A. Bailey) for the extraordinary vacancy in the representation of East Ward in the Willoughby Council, caused…

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Labor Politics. Unions in Revolt. Dissatisfied with Parliament. "Trades Hall Party."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 19 May 1914 · page 3

There are signs of disruption among Labor Party supporters. There are ominous rumblings, there are mutterings "not loud but deep," there are…

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Mr. J. H. Catts in Parliament to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1914 · page 10

Sir,—In your report of the proceedings of the Commonwealth Parliament, published on Friday last, the following statement appears: "Mr. Catts was laying before the House of…

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