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Politics & elections, 1924

3,091 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 155

Foreign Editors Diary Notes on Cable News The Westminster Election

Evening News · Thursday 6 March 1924 · page 9

BRITAIN: The Westminster by election might have been a really important test of the Government's position, but with so many…

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Winston Churchill As a Butter-in Creates a Peculiar Situation by Opposing Selected Conservative Candidate

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 March 1924 · page 1

LONDON, March 4.--It was announced to-day that Mr. Winston Churchill had decided to stand for the Abbey division of Westminster, as an…

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Election Campaign in South Australia No Compact Between Labor and Country Parties

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 March 1924 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Premier, Sir Henry Barwell, opened his election campaign with a policy speech at Clare last night…

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Police Conference Election of Officers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 March 1924 · page 7

The first business that engaged the attention of the Police Conference yesterday morning was the election of officers. On the motion of Mr. J. T. Moylan,…

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Women in Parliament

The Land · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 13
Also in The Farmer and Settler

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Meeting of Parliament

The Land · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 8

At a meeting of the Federal Cabinet held on Monday, appreciation was expressed at the way in which Dr. Page had presided at…

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Labor's Nominee In Westminster Election LONDON, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 9

Mr. Fenner B[?] secretary of the Labor Party, has been adopted as the Labor candidate for the Abbey division of westminster…

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The Commons. Member Unseated. Abbey By-election. ([?]euter.) LONDON. March 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 9

Major J. J. Astor (Con.), who was returned unopposed for the Dover division of Kent, has been unseated, because he voted before taking the oath…

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Peakhurst Ward Elections

The St George Call · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 2

The Extraordnary Election on Saturday last, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman J. Johnson for Peakhurst Ward, of…

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Women's Work and Women's Ways Stone Walls of Prejudice Imprison Ex-mental Patients the World Against Them--what the After Care Association Is Doing--17th Annual Meeting. Election of Officers

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 7

Fear: Fear the things that are, and the things that were, Fear the known and the unknown, of themselves, and of their followmen. Fear stalks always by the sids of the poor creatures who come stumbling up from the black pits of insanity, back to the world of men…

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Member's Remissness Causes Fresh Election

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 1

LONDON, March 5.--A most unusual occurrence in the House of Commons has led to the automatic unseating of Major Astor, who was…

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New Selection Rules for the Labor Movement Statement that Selection Ballots to Go is Incorrect--"Guardian's" Concern for Labor Not So Strange as Might be Thought--Mr. Molesworth's "Selection" Postponed--Preparing for Election in June

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 1

During the past week the "Daily Guardian" has been conducting a campaign for the abolition of selection ballots with the professed object of cleaning up corruption in the Labor movement. This concern for Labor from such a source does not appear so…

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Peakhurst Ward Election

The Propeller · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 1

An extraordinary election to fill the vacancy in Peakhurst Ward of Hurstville Municipality, caused by the resignation of Ald. Johnson, was held on…

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Quite Unlikely Early Elections Government Sits Tight But Decks Cleared

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 5

With the valor that may safely be assumed when a challenge is sure to be declined, certain members of the State Parliament are…

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Sailors and Soldiers' Parliament Putting the Boot Into a Consumptive Repat. Punishes a Man for Obeying Orders Incurable Denied a Bite of Decent Food

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 26

REPAT.'S ways are beyond understanding. Born of a spontaneous desire to remould and make smoother the broken lives of Diggers entrusted to its care, it has done more than any other organisation to break their hearts and spirits. Its objective appears to be the saving of the last penny. Usury is an honourable…

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St. Marys The By-Election

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 5

The extraordinary election to fill the vacancy in East Ward representation due to the resignation of Mr. Loveridge, was held last…

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Labor Secretary for Vacancy Mr. Fenner-Brockway is Chosen as Labor Candidate--Mr. Churchill Advocates Preference

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 1

LONDON, March 6.--Mr. Fenner-Brockway, secretary of the Labor Party, has been adopted as the Labor candidate for the Abbey division of…

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Barwell's Battle South Australian Elections

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 March 1924 · page 7

ADELAIDE. Saturday.—Five weeks from to-day the State will be in the throes of an election, and the campaign promises to be strenuous and bitter…

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Stonemarten's Stone Certainty Flemington Steeple Attracts Two Candidates But One Falls

Truth · Sunday 9 March 1924 · page 2

WHEN the acceptance's for the Autumn Steeplechase were declared only three horses remained in, but Bronzillet, who was slightly lame on the day of the race, was withdrawn on the course, leaving Stonemarten and Gereldery to battle for the…

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