On the Brink of His Political Doom Bruce As Prime Minister Hughes Manoeuvring for Position That Will Give Him Mastery Avoiding Another Election
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 5
CANBERRA, Tuesday. THOUGH but a fortnight of the new Commonwealth Parliament has passed, with it has gone all the haughty arrogance, the indifference to the feelings of members and public alike, and the bland superiority…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →How Mussolini Ensures Fascist Victory at Polls "Crude Efeigy of Election" 400 Names Submitted En Bloc 100 Per Cent. Fascist London
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 4
"The last Chamber was 80 per cent. Fascist; the next will be 100 per cent." THUS Mussolini boasts on the eve of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Speedy Ponies Will Compete at V.P. Today Great Struggle Expected in Fourteen-two Handicap Seven Candidates Recent Winners Pace Will Be on From Start
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 28
It is a long time since such a good field of ponies contested a race at an unregistered meeting as that which will face the starter in the first division of the Fourfeen-Two Handicap at the Rosekery R.C.'s meeting at Victoria Park today…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Historic Scenes. Paintings Unveiled. Federal Parliament House Canberra
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 10
Two oil palnllngs of the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament in Canberra by the Duke of York on May 9, 1927, were unvelied in the King's Hall of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Public Service. Postal Workers' Claims. Action in Parliament, (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 12
Actlon was taken in the Senate to-day to secure the disallowance of certain determinations of the Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. Atlee Hunt). The determinations were those…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Will Not Adjourn Fed. Parliament Rotarians to Stay at Queanbeyan Bruce Climbs Down Canberra
The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 1
PARLIAMENT will not after all, adjourn while the Rotarians hold their conference. The Prime Minister has made a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Open Letters Parramatta By-Election To the Electors of Parramatta
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 11
On Saturday next you have a grave responsibility in choosing a successor to the late Mr. Bruntnell, and I appeal to you to support General Lloyd, who will…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Election Need for Unity
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 18
Speaking at Pennant Hills on behalf of General Lloyd on Saturday night, Mr. Morrow made a passionate appeal for unity. "A house divided against itself…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rival Candidates Both at Diggers' Function Mr. Smith Butts in
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 13
Brigadier-General Lloyd and Mr. Hooke, political rivals, were at a returned soldiers' [?] at the Parramatta Jubilee Hall last Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Merrylands Druids Their "Queen" Candidate
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 7
Merrylands Druids' Lodge is having a busy time preparing for its social and other activities. It has nominated Miss Thelma Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Papal Elections. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 5
Sir,—In reply to Mr. Dillon's letter of the 10th instant, I can still assure him that I stand by my previous statement that the election of a layman to the Papacy is possible,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Election of Officers Citizens' Reform Assn
The Sun · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 22
The annual meeting of the Citizens Reform Association of Sydney was held at the Chamber of Commerce rooms yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Polling Places
The Sun · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 13
Polling-places for the Parramatta by-election are as follows: Parramatta, Town Hall; Baulkham Hills, public school; Carlingford, public school;…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Decline of Parliament
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 6
Mr. J. J. Gordon's comment:-- In your leader to-day you seem to attribute the decline of Parliament to the "howling down of every exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Volunteers Adequate Protection Question in Parliament Canberra
The Sun · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 11
The attitude of Ministers in refusing to answer questions without notice, if they take up too much time, has evidently been effective, for when the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unemployment in S. Australia "Summon Parliament," Says Labor Party Adelaide
The Labor Daily · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 1
The Parliamentary Labor Party met to-day to adopt a resolution requesting the Government to summon Parliament at an early date to deal with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge to Decide Disputed Elections
Evening News · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 10
STATE Cabinet to-day decided to bring into operation that part ol the Electoral Act which provide for the appointment of a Judge to adjudicate in all…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In The Queensland Election Campaign Workers’ Interest in C.P. CHALLENGE Active Leaflet Distribution(From Campaign Committee’s Mail)
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 3
J.E.B., has been very busy trying to make a few bob on the land in a five months’ season, and he now writes:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Townsville’s Left-wing Candidate Berg Morris, of Luanda Pt. TOWNSVILLE
The Workers' Weekly · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 1
A. J. (Berg) Morris, secretary of the Lucinda Point Waterside Workers, has accepted the offer of the Townsville Left-Wing Committee to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-morrow's By-election. "Vote Against Policy of Despair and Bankruptcy" Lang's Advice to the Electors Menace of Lower Wages, Longer Hours and No Endowment and Those Awful Tax Slugs!
The Labor Daily · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 5
THE Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Lang, speaking at the final Parramatta rallies last night, urged that on any polling day a great responsibility was cast upon the electors, "but you who go to the poll in the Parramatta by-election on Saturday have an even greater responsibility…
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