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Politics & elections, 1925

3,661 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 184

South Coast Candidates' Trials Floods and Large Electorates Kiama

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 9

Electioneering on the South Coast is being conducted under great difficulties, owing to the flooded stale of the country. The driver of the car…

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Polling Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 7

The poll opens at 8 a.m, and closes at 8 p.m. to-day. Vote early…

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State Elections. Polling To-day. Final Appeals by Candidates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 17

Polling for the State elections takes place to-day. Preparations have been made for a heavy poll. Party leaders are making urgent appeals to electors to record their votes…

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The Election

Nepean Times · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 5

Political meetings have been held in St. Marys within the past week. The National Three spoke in the Protestant Hall on Thursday evening, 21st inst.,…

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The Elections See "Sunday News"

Evening News · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 1

THE "SUNDAY NEWS," to-morrow, will contain the most complete information and results of the State Elections…

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Moral Issues at the Elections

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 1

ELECTION DAY is said to be the people's one day of power. That day is now with us. The electors of New South Wales will to-day flock to the polling booths by their hundreds of thousands…

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Votes Polled. At the 1922 Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 21

At the elections in 1922, there were 1,251,023 electors enrolled and qualified to vote in this State. The actual number of valid votes recorded was 843,693, or 67.44 per cent. of the…

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Election Eve. a Busy Night

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 18

Candidates of all parties in all electorates throughout the metropolitan area concluded their campaigns last night. Meetings were held at every street corner,…

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Election Day Air of Quietness at City Booths Will There Be Small Poll? Floods Cause Postponements in South

The Sun · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 6

Polling to-day will be carried on for 12 hours--from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. All ballot papers must be marked by numerals in the order of preference which the voter desires to show towards the candidates…

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Election Broadcasting

The Sun · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 5

Broadcasters (Sydney), Limited (2BL), make the following announcement:-- "By courtesy of 'The Sun'…

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Labour Faces Elections with Ballot Box Handicap How Lang Saved Selection System Scandals in Eleven Electorates

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 11

WHEN Labour was shocked by the ballot box exposure 18 months ago, Mat Charlton (Federal Leader) and Senator Gardiner…

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''A Million Votes From a Million Workers" To-day Lower Wages Next Week If Nationalists Win Elections Food Combines to Raise Prices Basic Wage to Be Abolished

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 1

A REDUCTION in the basic wage has been recommended by the Board of Trade. The Government has forbidden the announcement of the redaction until after the elections. A VOTE FOR FULLERISM TO-DAY is a vote for reduced wages for…

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To-day's Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 May 1925 · page 6

Once in three years the electors of New Smith "Wales are called upon to elect a new Parliament. That duty devolves upon them to-day. It is of the highest importance that every man and…

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Adam Lindsay Gordon — Poet and Politician To-day Is the Anniversary of His Election to Parliament

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 5

To-day is the 60th anniversary of Adam Lindsay Gordon's first speech in the South Australian House of Assembly. On May 31, 1865, he made…

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End of a Perfect Day for Somebody Labour Works Exceedingly Hard Incidents of the Polling

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 3

When polling for the State elections closed at 8 p.m. the impression gained by a "Sunday Times" representative, who had made a round of the principal metropolitan booths, was that the poll…

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Premier Confident of Victory Mr. Lang Expects to Win 46 Seats Progressives Polling Well in All Their Electorates What the Leaders Say the Premier Is Delighted "Three More Years of Sanity"

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 1

Although the Government appears to be safe the latest figures indicate some Nationalist losses, and that Sir George Fuller's majority will be smaller…

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"Too Much Orangeism" Remarkable Facts in Ulster General Election Protestants Vote for Devlin

Truth · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 8

FOLLOWING on the round of by-elections for the Dail in the Free State came the other day the general election in Ulster, designed by that astute politician, Sir James Craig, to give him a mandate beforehand for the reception of the report…

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The [?] of Death [?] bus Leighton and his s[?] snakes told their election meeting in George Street snake school

Truth · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 10

"TRUTH" scribe wandered into a snake school or boarding-house at…

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Ghinni Ghi Puts In First Election Return Within Eleven Minutes of Poll Closing Will It Be "As-you-were?" Primary Figures Indicate No Landslide Labor Increases Its Vote in Country

The Sun · Sunday 31 May 1925 · page 2

The general result of the elections, on the very incomplete figures so far available, does not indicate any landslide of either of the great parties. Most of the leaders and notabilities look like retaining their seats. A slightly stronger Labor vote is indicated in one or two Country electorates. On the primary figures, too, it…

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Who's Who? in New Parliament

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 June 1925 · page 6

OF the 90 probably successful candidates-- there were nearly 300 offering-- the farmers received the…

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