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Politics & elections, 1934

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Federal Elections. Mr. Lyons In His Own Electorate. Big Majority Likely. (From Our Special Representative.) Westbury (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 16

Judging by the reception the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) received at his meetings in the electorate, there should be no doubt about the solid majority that Wilmot will accord to…

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Gloucester Seat. By-election To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 16

The Gloucester by-election will be held tol-day. A U.A.P. candidate and two U.C.P. nominees are contesting the seat. The U.A.P. candidate is Mr. C. E. Bennett. His…

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Keynote of Election. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 12

Sir,—As indicated in your leader to-day, the keynote of all six political parties is simply "money." Without this essential all policies and promises are worthless. We are offered…

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Canberra Sizes Up the Elections Lang Is Lyons' Best Asset, and Lyons Is Scullin's

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 7

REMEMBERING the landslide that swept the Bruce-Page Government from office, and the equally effective Lang-slide that wiped out the Scullin Ministry…

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First Impressions Elections test: "Bawl to bawl" description

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 1

A BISHOP wants "a national day of humiliation." Will one be enough? "IT is wonderful how some women…

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"The Widow" May Upset the Federal Applecart Page Is Making It Altogether Too Hot Tee Tariff Is Now the Big Issue of the Elections

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 2

FOUR parties, each fighting all-in, make the Federal elections more "willing" than ever before. No sooner does one go-getting politician make a statement than it is challenged on three fronts. Anyone who can make sense of…

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"GOSSIP" Sidelights On the Election--Got Through £100,000--Cricket Score In Rugby-- Unknown Bowlers Make History--The White Man's God Turner and Fitter

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 13

AS Chief Electoral Officer for the Commonwealth, Victor Francis Turner, reached the top of the tree at an age when the majority of Public…

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Embarrassing for Bruxner Stevens' Move in By-election

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 8

CHARGES that Mr. Stevens has thrown overboard his agreement with the Country Party Leader, Mr. Bruxner, by importing into the…

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A Stroller In the TOWN Not An Election

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 6

"THIS case has been quite refreshing," said the Judge in Divorce, Mr. Justice Boyce, yesterday, after he had seen both husband…

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Chatham Should Prove Supremacy Clash with Rogilla Marks W.F.A. OPENING Spring Candidates Will Add Further Interest Nightly's Australian Debut

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 August 1934 · page 1

ALTHOUGH the absence of Peter Pan from the season's first w.f.a. race, the Warwick Stakes, might be regretted, the clash of Chatham and Rogilla will provide a fitting commencement for the spring racing. With the advantage of a run,…

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U.A.P. Man's Good Lead In Gloucester By-Election Well Ahead of His C.P. Rivals What Latest Vote Revealed

The Sun · Sunday 26 August 1934 · page 2

The Gloucester by-election for the State Parliament, rendered necessary by the death of Mr. Walter…

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Car Smash Did Not Stop Meeting Labor Candidates Get Timely Lift

The Sun · Sunday 26 August 1934 · page 2

Mr. G. O'Sullivan, Federal Labor candidate for Hume, and Mr. A. Hogan, one of the Senate Federal Labor candidates, were involved in…

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Church Tells How To Vote In Elections

The Sun · Sunday 26 August 1934 · page 23

"The obvious duty of all Christian men and women is to vote for men of honor, gifted with wisdom, understanding,…

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Inquiry. Monetary System. If Parliament Desires. Mr. Lyons' Statement. (From Our Special Representative.) Mole Creek (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 9

If it ts the desire of the new [?] wealth Perliament that an inquiiy should be held into a sppecific matter affecting the monetary system agreed to by a majority of the…

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For Parramatta Douglas Credit Candidate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 2

Mr. H. Miscamble will content the Parramatta federal sat as a Douglas Credit candidate, it was announced last week…

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Election Points

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 8

Mr. Lang is li[?]e s reckless driver who will not be wrcckless long. Although the Socialist party in this election speaks with two voices it has but one mind. Mr…

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Federal Elections. State Savings Bank. Sufferings of Depositors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 6

The Postmaster-General (Mr. Archdale Parkhill), speaking at Warriewood on Saturday night said that misery and distress would follow Langism as surely as it did before…

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Mr. Weaver On the Election Issue. "Political Piracy or Not."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 9

The Minister for Health (Mr. Weaver) made use of picturesque metaphors in a broadcast talk last night to impress on voters the necessity of returning the Lyons Government…

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Gloucester By-election

The Labor Daily · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 6

Returns of the first preference votes, polled at the Gloucester by-election on Saturday, show that the U.A.P…

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U.A.P. Victory In Poll At Gloucester What By-election Figures Show

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 August 1934 · page 7

A VICTORY for the United Australia Party is indicated in the Gloucester by-election held to fill the State seat left…

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