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Politics & elections, 1937

2,920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 146

Labor's Parliament Licences for S.P. Betting Urged

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 3

Almost every phase of public administration has been combed by A.L.P. branches and unions to…

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Can People Be Made Moral By Act Of Parliament? Churches Ask Not to Hinder Their Work Religion and a Balanced Budget

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 4

It has for some time been taken for granted in certain European countries that Governments are definitely concerned with the morals of their peoples. The issue has been raised of late, in our own land when, to all seeming, the Commonwealth Government accepted responsibility as a censor of morals…

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Censorship Urged As Election Cry

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 3

" Commonwealth censorship must be made an issue at the next elections," said Katherine Susannah Pritchard last night…

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Contempt For Parliament

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 4

THE decision of the Federal Government not to reopen Parliament until the delegation to the Imperial Conference is well clear of Australian shores is at once both a characteristically contemptuous disregard of the elected representatives of the people and a flagrant breach of…

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Pineapple Bacon Hams Sausages Annual Meeting of Tennis Association Election of Secretary

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Parramatta-Granville Tennis Association will be held to-morrow night. One of the items on the agenda is the election of…

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People Restore Labor's Majority Auburn By-Election Convincing Win

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 2

Nearly 2200 ratepayers and residents went to the polis on Saturday to cast their votes in the municipal by-election to fill the positions…

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Good Win for Labor Aldermen Polled Heavily In By-election At Auburn CONFIDENCE

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 6

THE Labor candidates, Messrs. N. J. Keile and Fred Schindler, won the by-election to fill two vacancies in the Auburn Council by a two to…

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North Sydney Council By-election

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 10

The by-election to fill the vacancy in the Victoria Ward of North Sydney Council was held on Saturday, and Mr. A. E. Waterhouse was…

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Censoring in Aust. Criticised Should Be Election Issue, Says Writer 'RIDICULOUS'

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

MR. c. HARTLEY GRATTON, an American writer visiting Australia, suggested at a dinner of Australian writers on Saturday night that…

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A.L.P.'s Council By-election Win

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

A.L.P. officers took charge of electioneering for the two successful Labor candidates. Messrs. N. J. Keile and F. C. Schindler, in the Auburn…

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Parliament to Reassemble London

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 15

The Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) returned from Sandringham to London to-day. The first meeting of Cabinet this…

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Meeting of Parliament. Mr. Curtin's Statement. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 11

"To all the rejoinders to my protest at the statement of the Prime Minister that Parliament would not meet until the second or third week in April, I would point to Mr. Lyons's…

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Hansard's Knockout to Lyons Did Say Parliament Was To Meet In March Curtin Right

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 6

COMPLETE vindication of the stand taken by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Curtin, regarding the date of the reassembling of the House…

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U.S.A. Court Warned. "Must Follow Election Returns," New York, Jan. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 12

Mr. Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committeee of the House of Representatives, in a broadcast address, said: "The Supreme Court must he made to follow the…

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Assisted in Auburn By-election

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

In addition to those mentioned in "The Labor Daily" yesterday, the assistant-secretary of the Municipal Employees' Union, Mr. Triggs, and…

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C.P. Will Contest U.A.P. Seats! No Pact for Fed. Election 'Some Form Of Agreement Only' New Aims

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 7

"NOT only does the Federal Country Party propose not to enter into an election pact for the Federal general elections this year, such as…

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Elections for Dairy Board

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 10

Rolls for the election of a producers rep. and reps, of co-operative factories on 7 the Australian Dairy Produce Board will close on…

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Spanish Atrocities. Described in French Parliament

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 29

Denouncing the murders of priests and religious by Reds in Spain, a French Deputy, M. Frederic Dupont, declared on December 9 in the Chamber of Deputies that…

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Municipal Elections

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 14

Parramatta is still very somnolent over the municipal elections. Ratepayers seem content to let things go anyhow. Worse luck!…

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"Stood Up and Shot At" Labor Aldermen's View of Election Victory Gomm's Appeal to Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 3

Jubilant at the success of their two colleagues at the by-election last Saturday, some of the Labor aldermen flung bouquets around with…

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