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Sydney · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1937

2,920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 146

Labor Candidates Address Electors

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 2

The Labor Party in N. S. W. is not going to wait till Lyons announces the date of the Federal elections. Candidates are following up the…

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Unemployment Insurance Present Benefits Better Election Cry For Govt. Ince Plan Canberra, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 1

DESIGNED to make the employee in industry pay a permanent unemployment tax, while providing benefits less…

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Aldermen Down for the Axe Howie, Walder, & A Number Of Others Next Election

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 4

AT least seven sitting Reform members of the City Council, including the Lord Mayor, Aid. Howie, and Aid. Sir Samuel Walder, are marked…

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Stevens Severely Heckled Opening of Campaign In By-Election Vacuous Speech

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 8

THE Premier, Mr. Stevens, Interrupted a vacuous and eulogistic speech about himself and his Government at the opening last night…

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Labor's Federal Election Plans

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 9

All Labor candidates for. Federal seats in New South Wales will meet at State Parliament House next Sunday. A Senate ticket of four has already been…

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[?]Ome News. [?]ederal Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

Continuing the deha[?]e on the Address in [?]eply in the House of R[?]presentatives, members of the Opposi[?]ion attacked the Government on many points of policy. The…

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Meeting of Candidates Federal Elections

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 5

Vital plans in connection with the preparations of the Labor Party for the Federal elections will be formulated at a conference of the whole…

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Electric Argument Battle of Loud Speakers in By-election Rival Candidates for Woollahra

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

THE loudspeakers of Mr. H. H. Mason and Mr. Beresford Grant, rival U.A.P. candidates for Woollahra, roared in opposition last night from either side of Victoria Street,…

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A.L.P. Candidates Will Confer Prepare For Federal Campaigning

The Sun · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 3

Instructions were given last night by the A.L.P. executive that Mr. R. J. Heffron, M.L.A., and Mr. C. C. Lazzarini, M.L.A. whose expulsions…

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Zane Grey Says Australian Fishing Rods Are Best In World Keystone Politics Woollahra By-Election "Bill" Wentworth's Thud

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 3

FOR the Woollahra by-election jg U.A.P. candidates for selection had a battle of the old school tie. The bob-in club cast 960 votes, 30 informal. Of these "pre-selectionists," 631…

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Vic. Legislative Council Elections Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

The distribution of preferences[?] night gave Mr. L. R. Rodda (C.P.) victory in the Western Province or the Legislative Council's elections,…

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Federal Campaign by Labor Candidates Are Endorsed A.L.P. EXEC

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 5

PROCEEDING with its plans in preparation for the Federal elections, the Central Executive of the A.L.P. last night endorsed the…

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Candidate Attacks Stevens Alliance Made To Defeat U.A.P. Choice WOOLLAHRA

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 5

MR. G. R. W. MCDONALD, one of the Independent U.A.P. candidates in the Woollahra by-election, announced at his policy-speech…

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Electioneering in the Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 1

THE INDEPENDENT U.A.P. candidate for Woollahra (Mr. H. H. Mason, K.C.) with his loud-speaker at King's Cross last night. Despite the rain, interested crowds at the Cross gathered to hear him speak…

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Elections, Then Double Dissolution What Curtin Is Likely To Do Opposition by the Senate Labor May Win Ten Seats

Truth · Sunday 20 June 1937 · page 18

"TRUTH" makes this prediction. If, as seems inevitable, Labor is returned at the next Federal Elections in October, it may be anticipated that Mr. Curtin, faced by a hostile Senate, will…

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Basis For Federal Election Campaign Is Laid Candidates Confer Labor Confident Of Victory Big Gathering

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

LAYING the basis for the most vigorous election campaign in the history of the Labor Party, candidates from electorates throughout the State met at State Parliament House yesterday and concluded their proceedings on a note of enthusiastic…

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No By-election Labor Members' Move Question of Expenses

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 2

Despite opposition by the Labor alderman, Granville Council last Tuesday decided by six votes to four to apply to the Minister for Local…

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Labor Candidate for Kooyong Young Barrister To Oppose Menzies MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 6

Labor campaign committees have started organising in the electorates in preparation for the Federal general election…

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Stevens' Plan to Stop S.P. Independent U.A.P. Candidate Puts A Poser WOOLLAHRA

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 6

REFERRING to the "suppression" of starting price "betting in an appeal for support, made to Woollahra electorate, Mr. G. R. W…

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Labor To Win Next Federal Elections

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 7

Sitting members and endorsed Labor candidates for the coming Federal elections met at State Parliamentary House yesterday to discuss important details associated with the approaching campaign. The president of the A.L.P., Mr. Keller, expressed the confidence of the gathering and the movement as a whole when he said that they would assemble as members of a Federal Government after the elections. (See report on Page 5.)…

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