Senate Elections. New Ballot Paper Arrangements
Under the Senate Electoral Bill, passed by the Federal Parliament last week, the alphabetical system of arranging Senate party groups on the…
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1,681 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 85
Straight Australian Trying a New Election Dodge
AS a result of legislation passed through the Federal Parliament last week the electoral law has been amended to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Swedish Chamber of Commerce Election of Executives
President: Captain A. E. Lundgren, C.B.E. Council: New South Wales—Sir Thomas Gordon, Messrs. A. R…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament Will Dethrone King Leopold Meeting Called In Paris To-morrow Back Decision of Cabinet Deliberate Plot Is Suggested LONDON
Fifty Belgian Senators and Deputies met in Paris and carried a resolution confirming the solidarity of the Belgian and Allied Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Federal Election and War Work
BAD and alarming as the military situation of the Allies is in France, and great as the necessity in Great Britain to create a "war dictatorship" may be, the position in Australia is far from being so desperate that the people should surrender their democratic rights. Yet that is what our Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Election Hint To Gander By Menzies CANBERRA
Federal Parliament will probably sit all night, so that business on the notice paper can be disposed of before it rises to-morrow afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament Preview Of "Dad Rudd, M.P."
Members of the New South Wales Government will be given a special preview of "Dad Rudd, M.P.," next week by Cinesound Film Company. THIS Cinesound film is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →To Endorse C.P. Candidate for Cowper
A meeting of the Cowper electorate council of the United Country Party will be held at Kempsey on Monday, June 17, to endorse a candidate, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Panama Elections. Communist Plot Thwarted. WASHINGTON, May 30. (A.A.P.)
The Panamanian Ambassador. Mr. Boyd announced that arrested in the Canal Zone a[?] Panama had thwarted a Communist Socialis[?] plot forelbly to prevent the national [?]ections…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Labor Certain To Win At Coming Elections Ward Charges Pro-nazi Govt. Entanglement Canberra
THE Australian people were determined, at the coming Federal election, to return a Labor Government -- the only government capable of organising a genuine war effort, free from pro-Nazi entanglements, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament Up for Five Weeks
CANBERRA. Friday.--Federal Parliament went into recess tonight for five weeks. It will reassemble for one week on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labour Candidates
The following were elected unopposed as candidates of the official Labour Party at the next Federal elections: Eden-Monaro, Mr. H. E. Turner; Martin, Mr. R. Lockwood; North…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Labor's Team For Election
LABOR'S fighting machine for the coming Federal struggle was overhauled and strengthened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assembling Cars In Australian Works Australian car manufacture is in the news again with the Motor Car Bill in Parliament's hands
This series of photos shows something of car manufacturing here. It shows how the Dodge, a typical…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Nicholas.) City Mutual Directorate. Election of April 10 ABORTIVE
Argument was continued in the suit, particulars of which have already been published, instituted by certain members of the City Mutual Lite Assutance Society, Ltd., against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament Not A Safe Spot For Financial Heroes
"If anyone had suggested spending £70,000,000 on defence in Australia, three or four years ago, he might have been a hero today. "But he would not have remained a member of Parliament."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Move to Defer Municipal Elections
Postponement because of the war of the local government elections until a date to be fixed by the Minister will be suggested by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grand National Candidates
With the near approach of the Grand Nationals, the jumping events commanded much attention at the V.R.C. June meeting at Flemington on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Election Urged. Sir Earle Page's View. National Government Demand
Sir Earle Page, M.P., the former leader of the Country Party, in a statement last night, advocated an immediate Federal election…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Not Thinking About Elections MELBOURNE
"I have not had time to think about elections lately," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) today, when asked to comment on…
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