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Politics & elections, 1937

2,920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 146

Election Campaign

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 2

Fairfield Council on Tuesday granted the Fairfield A.L.P. permission to hold street meetings within the municipality in connection with the forthcoming…

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Mr. Turner. U.A.P. Candidate for Gordon. Won Selection Ballot. 2745 Members Voted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 10

Mr. Henry B. Turner, barrister, a resident of Killara, was selected on Saturday as the United Australia party candidate for the Gordon seat…

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Gordon Candidate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 10

Mr. H. B. Turner, the selected U.A.P. candidate for the Gordon by-election…

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Labour Party. Election Plans. Forecast of Policy Speech. Campaign of Attack. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 10

The Labour party's plan of campaign for the Federal elections will be to launch a fierce attack on the Federal Government. It believes that it has…

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Zoological Society. Election of President

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 10

Mr. Tom Iredale, who was elected president of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for 1937-38 on Saturday, was born in England. During a stay in New Zealand he…

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Communists' Election Decision. Not to Oppose Labour Members

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 10

During the week-end it was reported that the Communist party of Australia had decided not to oppose endorsed Labour candidates in most of the States at the forthcoming Federal…

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Election Chances Are Rosy Dwyer Gray Sums Up Tasmanian Opinion Figures Show Hobart

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 7

THE Acting Premier, Mr. Dwyer Gray, in a Federal election address, said that no State in the Commonwealth had more to gain by…

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Spring Candidates Show Pleasing Form Gay Blonde and Tonga Reappear Fireman, Beaten Easily In Mile. Ran On Well At Finish

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 18

SEVERAL candidates for big spring handicaps were seen out at Rosebery on Saturday, runners of especial interest being Tonga, winner of the Cape Solander Handicap, and Gay Blonde, who finished…

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Lyons Has Open Mind On Election Date

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) returned to Melbourne from the Coronation and Imperial Conference on Saturday with an…

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A.a.a. Election

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 14

Reg. Boyan, former secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association, will leave next month for New Guinea to take up a business appointment. At tonight's…

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London Topics. Parliament and Crammers. Tattoo "Blasphemy." (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, June 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 10

"The Friend of the Children comes out of the Wood," sang Robert Louis Stevenson, and it is really astonishing to note how, in the last few days,…

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WARRINGAH. Choice of U.A.P. Candidate. Nominations Close August 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 12

The Warringah Federal Electoral Conference of the United Australia party is making arrangements for the selection of a candidate…

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Federal Election. Cabinet Undecided. Late October or November. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 10

It is now unlikely that the Federal Cabinet at the meetings to begin in Sydney to-morrow, will commit itself to a date for the Federal election…

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Cabinet Defers Talk on Election Date November Poll Now More Likely Difference Of Opinion In Party Organisations Urgent Legislation

The Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 9

NO attempt to fix a date for the Federal election will be made at the Cabinet meeting which commenced to-day in Sydney and will be continued to-night…

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Election Date in the Air Federal Cabinet May Avoid The Issue Meet Today Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 6

WHILE the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, said, today that the Federal Cabinet, at its meetings commencing in Sydney tomorrow,…

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Echo Of Election Voices

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 7

AN echo of the loud speaker war of the Woollahra by-election was the submission to the Health and By-laws committee of the City…

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Federal Election Campaign Organisation by Labor Drives in Many Centres Federal Victory Is Object SOCIALS

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 5

FOLLOWING the effective steps that have been taken to secure the return of the selected Labor candidate for Barton, Mr. J. R…

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By-election in Gordon. No Independent Likely

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 6

All of those who had been mentioned as likely Independent candidates for Gordon stated last night that in view of the fact that there…

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Election Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 2

The Government would go before the electors with a new constructive policy, said the Federal Minister for Health (Mr. Hughes). at a meeting at Crow's…

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Woman Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 July 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mrs. C. Weber (Widow of Clarence Weber, the of wrestler) was endorsed by the League Electors of Victoria today to…

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