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Politics & elections, 1936

2,362 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 119

Special Session of Parliament Further Support for Graziers' Proposal Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 6

At a meeting of the Talwood-Bun-gunya Branch of the United Graziers Association to-day, a motion was carried that this meeting of woolgrowers…

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Qualifying Exam ? Candidates For Parlt

The Sun · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 20

TRUNDLE, Tuesday.--A motion, that all candidates for Parliament be required to pass a qualifying examination before going to election, was…

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Parliament and the Pigeons

The Sun · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 14

IT is not easy to understand the opposition of some members of Parliament to that provision in the Companies Bill which prohibits the hawking of shares. It may be true that in the old first postulate of the skin game…

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State Parliament. Share-hawking Debate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 14

The Legislative Assembly became involved in a long debate yesterday when it, considered alterations which had been made by the Legislative Council to those clauses of the…

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Share Hawking Allegations In State Parliament. Prosecutions Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 15

Serious allegations concerning share hawking and the fiotation of companies were made in speeches in the Legislative Assembly last night…

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State Parliament. Companies Bill. Upper House Amendments. Debate in Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 11

The greater proportion of the Legislative Council's amendments to the Companies Bill were agreed to in the Legislative Assembly yesterday…

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Factory and Shop Laws. New Bill before N.S.W. Parliament

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 20

Moving the second reading of the Factories and Shops Bill in the N.S.W. State Parliament last week, the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Dunningham)…

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State Parliament a Curb on Share-hawking All in Favor Pertinent Debate

The Sun · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 8

AFTER a debate which the Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) described as one of the best and most pertinent…

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State Parliament Govt. Defies the Upper House Clause Is Back in Bill The Hawking Of Shares "Huge Fraud"

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 6

THE action bf the Legislative council in throwing out of the Companies Bill the prohibition on the offering of shares "from place to…

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Derby By-election

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Major Archibald George Church (National Government), and Professor Philip John Noel Baker (Labor) have nominated…

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State Parliament. Port Kembla Development

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 10

When the Legislative Assembly met at 11 yesterday morning, the Acting Treasurer and Minister for Works (Mr. Spooner) moved the second reading of the bill to ratify the…

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TAXPAYERS Request Leave to Address Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 10

Sir Norman Kater presented a petition to the Legislative Council yesterday on behalf of the Taxpayers' Association of New South Wales, asking that Mr. Spender, K.C., be…

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Last Nights Parliament Show Roads Bill Meeting Objectors

The Sun · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 29

THE last few nights, ladies and gentlemen, positively the last few nights! The great Parliamentary season is…

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State Parliament Board's Power New Aborigines' Bill a Protest

The Sun · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 24

Criticism of the Legislative Council's amendment to the Aborigines' Protection Bill was voiced in the Legislative Assembly to-day by Mr…

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Police Cars to Shadow Pressmen Reasons Given in Parliament Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 8

Questions were asked in the Legislative Assembly to-day by the Deputy-Leader of the Labor Party, Mr. Cain, regarding reports that…

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State Parliament Spooner Avoided Taking Vote Storm Is Again on Head Big Land Deal Causes An Upset

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 8

NO vote was taken in the Legislative Assembly last night on the proposal by Mr. Tully (Lab., Goulburn) to refer to a Select…

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Why Brilliant Son Should Win the National Has Pull in Years and Weight, is Good Jumper and Bred to Stay Sydney Candidate Chief Danger

Referee · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 5

FROM whatever angle this year's Grand National Hurdle race is viewed, this jumping event appears to be a four-horse event—Full Charge, Sixteen Annas, Brilliant Son, and Pooley Bridge being the quartet likely to fight out next Saturday's finish. These horses are outstanding, and although the Sydney representative, Sixteen Annas, may…

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Candidate's Claim on N'castle Council Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 10

THE Newcastle City Council has been requested by the solicitors for Mr. Peter Connolly to make a public…

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U.A.P. Women To Stand For State Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 7

ENCOURAGED by the success of women at elections abroad, women members of the United Australia Party are aspiring to New South Wales Parliamentary honors, and it is expected that a number will be candidates at the next elections…

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Houses of Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 17

In a printed reply in the Legislative Council yesterday to a question by Mr. Kneeshaw regarding the erection of new Houses of Parliament, it was stated that the question…

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