Contempt of Parliament
CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The proceedings in the House of Representatives yesterday, together with the vote that declared the editor and…
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State Parliament. an Eventful Day. Legislation and Noise
Uproar in the Legislative Assembly, in-1 attention to speakers, sneers, innuendoes, and direct insults have become so much a part of normal procedure that it takes something…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Parliament a "Trick" Motion Sprung House in Uproar
The spectacle of the Attorney General roaring at the Leader of the Opposition, and of Government members yelling at Mr. Foster, enlivened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russian Butter. Sale in Britain. Questions in Parliament LONDON, May 12
In the House of Commons, Mr. J. R. Remer (Con.) asked the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Graham) whether his attention had been called to the difficulties of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Notes of the Week. Political and Otherwise. The Tasmanian Elections
The result of the Tasmanian general election on Saturday was not reassuring to Mr. Theodore or Mr. Lang. The voting at the 1928 election was: Labour, 43,800;…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Selection of Candidate Matthews Allegations Warmth at Pendle Hill
Allegations that the meeting had been flooded for the endorsement of a candidate for the municipal elections were made by Mrs. T. H. Mathews at Pendle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Elections. Nationalist Nominations
Nominations for Nationalist selections in New South Wales for the Federal electorates and the Senate will close to-day with the National Association…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Getting Ready Election Preparations Probable Triers
The New South Wales Nationalists are girding their joins for the next Federal election. Although Nationalist nominations…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Close Fight Tasmanian Election Denison Poll Hobart
The incomplete state of the Denison scrutiny at 2 a.m. to-day, when it was adjourned to await the receipt of five ballot papers from the West…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →In Parliament Lang Becomes Lyrical the Insurance Bill
WITH the Premier declaring that he was a good angel protecting the policy-holders from harm, and the Opposition persistently viewing Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Parliament. Demand on Insurance Companies. Question of Cash Deposits
The Legislative Assembly has what might be called a number of stock questions for the Government They are put at frequent intervals, but nre seldom answered. The Ministry…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On the Stockyard Fence: the Men on the Land Make Their Own Politics Attack the Tariff! Federal Candidates Should State Plainly Their Attitude
Mr. F. A. Falkiner, hon. secretary, Rand branch of the F.S.A., writes: —Could you publish the prices of duplicate parts of say, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Next Election. "Life and Death Struggle." ADELAIDE
Outlining a plan by an emergency committee to deal with the crisis, Mr. A. Grenfell Price, in an address to a representative gathering of business men, said that Australia now…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Brisbane Municipal Elections Not a Labor Triumph
The results of the Municipal elections in Brisbane were as follow:— Labor 8, Civic Reform 7, Nationalist Non-party 3…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blood Flows Egypt Election Riots 18 Dead Workers' Barricades Cairo
Much blood has been shed in riots stirred up by anti-British agitators during the elections of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tasmania. New Parliament. Hobart
The Nationalist party received a clear majority of eight over Labour and Independent members as a result of the election. This position was shown when the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Parliament As a Conference Doubtful Prospects
CANBERRA, Friday. -- It is apparent that Mr. Scullin's hope of turning Parliament. into a conference next week will not be realised so early…
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A ballot is proceeding at Canberra to-day for the election of the Ad visory Council There are 4500 electors enrolled,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tariff. Match Industry. Large Sum Lost. Debate in Parliament. (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra
During the debate on the tariff in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Parkhill (N.S.W.) declared that one company had paid £15.000,000 to the French Government for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Language Takes a Dramatic Turn In N.S.W. Parliament Mr. Lang and Mr. Bavin in Verbal Embraces Speaker Hard Put To It
ACCUSTOMED as we have become to the amenities of parliamentary debate, it was nevertheless with a thrill of horror that the public last week read of the interchanges between Mr. Lang, Premier of N.S. Wales…
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