The Talkers Unloosed Again Dreary Parliament
A BURST of mostly unintelligible interjections from the Opposition while Brigadier-General Lloyd was being introduced as the newest…
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The Federal Parliament. Amending the Electoral Act
IN the Federal Parliament last Thursday the Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) introduced a bill to amend Section 214 of the Electoral Act to overcome the delay in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal Commission. Federal and State. Question in Parliament
The Premier (Mr. Bavin) announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the proposed Royal Commission which is to inquire into the coal-mining industry would possess…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Carpenters' Demand. "Call Judge Lukin Before Parliament." Melbourne
At a meeting of the Victorian branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners to-day it was urged that not sufficient progress was being made by the strike and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →State Parliament. Premier's New Tactics. Small Measures Given Preference
"Hasten slowly" seems to be the slogan of the Nationalist Government. The Premier is adopting tactics which are the envy of the Opposition. He showed his cards at election…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Anglican Church. State of Chaos. Clergy Ignore Parliament. Fremantle
"The Church of England is in a chaotic state, and that is a most undesirable condition of affairs for any Church," said the Rev. F.W. Ree.e, of Mosman, New South Wales, who…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Evening News 188-174 Castlereagh-street.Sydney. February 17, 1929. Parliament at Work
The State Parliament has reassembled in order to get on with its work, and it is during the next few weeks that the Bavin Government will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Penal Parliament "The Cat" Last Night; Guillotine To=day Crimes Bill Is Flogging Obsolete in This State ?
The use of the cat-o'-nine-tails was the main theme of last night's debate on the Crimes Bill in the Legislative Assembly. Before the House adjourned the Premier gave notice of his intention to use "the guillotine" this afternoon to cut short the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Meet Parliament in Glum Mood Nationalists Visualise Doom Surveyors' and Crimes Bills in the Assembly Flogging Advocated
MINISTERS wore worried looks and members were in chastened mood at the opening session of Parliament yesterday. No doubt it was due to the moral defeat they had suffered at Parramatta, showing them their true position of insecurity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summon Lukin to Bar of Parliament! Vic. Carpenters' Demand Stop All Melbourne Traffic If Hollow Ay Is Convicted Unfair Ballot Melbourne
A MASS meeting of carpenters to-day carried a motion urging that Judge Lukin be summoned to the Bar of the Federal Parliament to show cause as to who be had involved the Australian people in an industrial conflict…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mollison Wins: Gothic Not Disgraced Futurity Day Kidaides' Cup Trial St. Ardent's Form Newmarket Candidates Beaten
After such an unpleasant opening for the V.A.T.C. Autumn meeting on Oakleigh Plate day, racegoers were recompensed to a certain extent on Saturday, when the meeting was brought to a conclusion. The weather conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Cup Notes Candidates for the Plate
This year, the Newcastle Cup meeting is reduced to one day, and, with industrial troubles weighing heavily on the Northern City, that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Elections and Capacity
ELECTIONS call for the strong: the hereditary accepts the weak. King George is King of England by hereditary right, Hoover is President of the U.S.A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broken Hill Council By-election. Broken Hill
The Independents have lost a seat in the City Council as the result of the by-election in which Mr. Vinall, secretary of the Workers' Industrial Union, defeated Mr. E. P. Shelley…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Methodist Church. Annual Conference. Candidates for Ministry
The Methodist Conference commenced its sessions in Sydney yesterday morning as a ministerial committee of the whole. The business transacted related to matters under…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Radio in Elections Sydney Pioneered
"It is surprising that the more general use of wireless broadcasting has not been made in election campaigns in Great Britain long before this," said…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Labor Solidarity in Action Parramatta Election (To the Editor.)
Sir,--Last Saturday's by-election at Parramatta him proved beyond doubt to the people of New South Wales the joyful tidings that the fall of Nationalism is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Leadight Does Best Cup Candidates on the Track Mondiaga's Form Melbourne
AT Flemington this morning, on the course proper, with hurdles thirty feet out, Lendight was responsible for about the beat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wonderful Election
THE next general election in Great Britain promises to be the most remarkable on record. It will, indeed, inaugurate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harry Gavin's Mile Frilford a Doubtful Cup Candidate
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Newmarket candidate, Harry Gavin, who had not previously essayed a mile, led all the way in the Stand Handicap…
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