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Politics & elections, 1928

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Loughlin Not a Candidate Friends Urge Appointment to Migration Commission

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 23

Though rumor continues to connect the name of Mr. P. F., Loughlin with the vacancy on the Migration and Developmental Commission created by…

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To Pacify Natives. Move by Dutch Indies Parliament

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 16

The Volksraad of the Dutch East Indies (a semi-legislative and advisory body) has passed by 34 votes to 18 a bill for its own reorganisation. The measure…

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King's Speech. Parliament Opens. Foreign Affairs Reviewed. LONDON, Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 15

Parliament was opened to-day by his Majesty the King. The customary enthusiasm greeted the procession of his Majesty from Buckingham…

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On Goddesses' Laps Results of Elections British Women's Vote Labor Threatens Hot Session London

Evening News · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 1

IN moving the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons this afternoon, Colonel A. L. Ward referred to the extension of the franchise to women 21 years of age. He aroused laughter when he said that results of general…

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[?]Cal Special By-elections

Evening News · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 8

THE pending contest for Wollondilly to fill the seat yesterday [?]ied by Sir George Fuller, will be the first by-election for the New South Wales Legislative…

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The Caulfield Sprint Candidates with Prospects Translator May Find 9.13 Too Much

Referee · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 3

There is bound to be a large field for the Oakleigh Plate, and, as has happened previously, some beaten runner may account for the Newmarket…

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Federal Elections Labor Selections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 4

Senators E. Needham and P. M. Graham and Mr. E. H. Barker have been selected as Western Australian Labor candidates to contest the three vacancies…

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Labor Should Get Ready. For the Forthcoming Federal Elections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 16

Speaking at the annual meeting of the North Rockhampton (Q.) Branch of the A.L.P., held recently, the Queensland State Minister for Railways (Mr. J. Larcombe)…

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Workers, Beware! a Pre-electional Warning

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 9

SPEAKING at Bathurst, N.S.W., last week, Mr. Manning, "Nationalist" M.H.R., divulged a little clumsily-hidden secret by stating that the Federal…

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Industrial Peace Proposal by Prime Minister Bruce. Political Propaganda for Federal Elections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 14

SPEAKING at Boxhill (V.) on January 31 Prime Minister Bruce outlined a suggestion that representatives of employers and employees should confer to…

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Katoomba Hospital. Election of Officers. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 17

Following upon the recent hospital meeting, when a section of the subscribers installed their own chairman and carried motions appointing Mr. W. R. Thompson…

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Federal Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 16

Mr. P. Coleman, M.P., has secured unopposed the Labour representation in the Reid electorate at the forthcoming Federal elections…

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Big Stick Japanese Election Campaign Tactics Tokio

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 1

Nine hundred candidates, representing six parties, are entering the home stretch in the general elections, which take place on February 20, with the…

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To Join Forges? A.W.U. AND A.R.U, Amalgamation Labor's Big Scheme Effect on Federal Elections Hobart

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 15

Although it will take at least six months to bring about an actual amalgamation of the A.W.U. and the A.R.U. because after plans are defined, plebiscites of both sides will have to be held, leaders of both unions believe that it will be an accomplished fact…

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Federal Elections Reid Favors Mr. Coleman

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 4

Nominations for Labors selection for Reid Federal seal closed at noon yesterday. The returning officer, Mr. W. M…

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Club Receives Little Encouragement Only Seven Candidates for Long Race at Rosebery Power Fancied

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 28

Where are the unregistered stayers? For to-day's handicap at Rosebery, run over eleven furlongs and 50 yards, a prize of £180 was offered, but it…

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VOICE of the CITY Federal Elections--When?

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 7

Despite official reticence, it seems likely that Mr. Manning's prophecy of the next Commonwealth elections for next November should be accurate…

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Dramatic Turn In Coal Mine ''Bribe" Sensation President Summoned to Sydney Executive Wants Explanation of Statements; Men Demand "Other Names" Election Propaganda Talk

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1928 · page 2

Mr. Hoare, president of the Northern Miners' Federation, has, been summoned by telegram to report immediately to the Central Executive of his union in Sydney…

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From Parliament to the Convent. Dutch Woman Deputy Becomes Nun

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 43

Mrs. Sophie Bonsveld-Vitringa, the first Catholic woman elected to the Dutch Parliament, who lately joined the Benedictine Order in Belgium, has had an…

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On the Tracks. Autumn Trials V.r.c. Candidates on Randwick Tracks

Evening News · Thursday 9 February 1928 · page 2

CHRYSTAL and other horses that may be going to Melbourne at the end of the week were on the tracks at Randwick this morning…

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