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Politics & elections, 1934

2,810 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 141

Tobacco Industry to be Vital Election Issue Lyons Govt. Charged with Neglect Is There Campaign to Stifle Australian Producers? Thousands of Pounds Worth of Leaf Remains on Farms Unsold Public Inquiry Asked for

The Land · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 4

ALL the indications are that the Federal Government's treatment of the tobacco industry will be a vital issue in several electorates at the forthcoming elections. Growers in the Tamworth and Manilla districts are extremely…

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Elections. Country Party Plans. Dr. Page's Policy Speech

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 12

The leader of the Federal Country party (Dr. Page), who reached Sydney from Melbourne yesterday morning, intimated that his policy speech would be delivered in his…

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Local Election Committee Gets Down To Work SYDNEY

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 3

The Rockdale Area Committee has now settled down to the task of formulating its organisational plans refinance, propaganda, etc., for the…

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Central Committee Meeting Criticism of Mistakes Election Campaign

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 3

There were many useful criticisms of our methods of work and organisational defects in election campaigns, brought out at…

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AMERICA N.S.W. Senate Candidate Exposes Roosevelt Lang Plan

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 2

The American events provide a considerable amount of food for thought for workers who have supported the Labor Party, particularly the Lang…

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Election "Rubbish" Quebec

The Sun · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 15

The British Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay Macdonald) and his daughter, Miss Ishbel, arrived today for their holiday in Canada…

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The Coming Election. Me. Gosling's Appeal to Supporters

The St George Call · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 2

Mr. Mark Gosling, addressing a meeting of his friends and supporters at Kogarah during the week, urged all to their utmost to return a Labor…

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Commonwealth Election. Who Will Represent Barton ?

The St George Call · Friday 20 July 1934 · page 1

So far it is rumoured that two candidates are in the field, Messrs. Eldridge and A. G. Willis. The U.A.P. candidate is not yet announced…

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The Budget. Parliament and Finance. Procedure Based on History. (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 14

When the House of Representatives meets on Tuesday afternoon, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), in his capacity of Treasurer of the Commonwealth, will deliver the Budget…

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S.A. Candidates. Mr. M. D. Cameron Withdraws. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

Mr. Malcolm D. Cameron, sitting member for Barker in the House of Representatives, sent a telegram to the Liberal and Country League withdrawing his nomination because…

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Bank Depositors' Candidate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

At a meeting of the New South Wales Bank Depositors' Protection Association, held at Petersham this week, it was decided that nominations be invited for a candidate to…

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Elections. Split in Victoria. Nomination Form Rejected by Federal Members. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

The central council of the Victorian Country party decided to-day that it could not exempt members of the Federal Parliament from signing the new nomination form…

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Federal Labour Candidates. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

Mr. J. O'Sullivan has been selected as the Federal Labour candidate for Hume. Mr. E. W. O'Neill will contest Riverina in the same interest…

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Queensland Senate Candidates. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

Senators T. W. Crawford and H. S. Fo[?]l and Mr. W. J. Cooper were chosen to-night as the U.A.P. and Country party candidates in Queensland for the Senate. Mr. Cooper, who…

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Young Tennis Player's Death. Regarded as Future Cup Candidate. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 19

A promising tennis player, Eric Freak, 18, died to-day at Semaphore, after an attack of appendicitus. During his brief career, Freak won 30 cups and a place in the State team…

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Candidates Tie

The Sun · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 8

The Liberal and Country League ballot for Boothby resulted in a dead-heat between J. L. Price and K. C. Wilson. The divisional committee…

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Why Mr. Lyons Feels So Tired Tragi-Comedy Of the Senate Selection Candidates Foisted On Electorate By a Junta Little Eisteddfod Held to Hear Trial Speeches

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 4

THE absurdity to which party machine politics has brought representative government and universal…

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Election Fight Progress A.l.p. Exec. Reviews Campaign

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 6

MEMBERS of the Central Executive of the A.L.P. expressed keen pleasure at last night's meeting at the excellent progress that had been…

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Dr. Stawell's Election Confirmed London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 8

At its annual meeting to-day the British Medical Association confined the election of Sir Richard Stawell, a well-known Melbourne doctor, as…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, July 23, 1934. a People's Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 10

Australia faces the coming general election with the great advantage of having learned in the hard school of experience that the issues touch the…

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