Busy Time for State Parliament
WHAT is almost certain to be the last session of the present State Parliament will be opened by the Governor,…
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Base Election Tactics Even a Faked Broadcast Frantic, Mean Stunts of U.A.P.
TACTICS of the basest kind, from sinister whispering campaigns to a despicable faked radio broadcast, will distinguish for ever and a day…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Weaver Wants Election Waste
Cost or the war-time election will not be all dead loss. Of the 1,679,862 voters on the roll in N.S.W., Mr. R. W. D. Weaver, state Salvage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Blood Candidates Crash Badly; Only Evatt, Abbott Leading In Poll
Only two of all the "new blood in politics" candidates who contested seats in New South Wales--Dr. H. V. Evatt, Official Labor (Barton) and Mr. J. P. Abbott, Country Party (New England)--looked certain last night of wresting a seat from the retiring members in the House of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Page Two In the absence (on holidays) of Andrea. Election Hangovers... Spring Challenge To The Tailleur...Revival Reminiscences
THINK of the hauls the salvage collectors will pick up to-morrow...electioneering leaflets and literature,…
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JUNEE, Saturday. -- A campaign unlike any other in the present elections was "fought" by Dr. Ronald…
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There were no Communist candidates at yesterday's election, because the Communist Party is an illegal organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Candidates Vote
MR. COWPER, U.A.P. candidate for Wentworth, casting his vote yesterday at a Double Bay booth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Candidates' Wives on Duty All Day Women don't ask husbands how to vote
Stirred by the importance of electing the best men to serve Australia, women voted more intelligently yesterday than they Have ever done before…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Polling in A.i.f. Camps
Polling in the A.I.F. training camps in New South Wales was conducted quietly and efficiently. Returning officers were in charge of polling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sidelights On The Federal Election Woman candidate says women let her down
COMPARATIVELY few votes were polled by the four New South Wales women who contested…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Recording Election Progress Figures — Dr. Evatt Wins Barton Seat — with A.i.f. Troops in Egypt
Figures from the polls in all electorates being recorded last night at the G.P.O. by the Chief Electoral Officer of New South Wales, Mr. G. Barrett (right), and Mr. W. Cawsey…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Home News. Federal election
On the latest returns in the Federal election, it appears that the Menzies Government will be returned with its majority in the House of Representatives reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, September 23, 1940. the Election and the Future
The Federal election has produced neither the decisive victory for nor the clear defeat of the Government for which the Prime Minister, voicing his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sums Spent by Candidates. Mr. Hamlet's Charge
Mr. Joseph Hamlet, an endorsed U.A.P. candidate, who has been defeated in Warringah by the Federal Treasurer, Mr. Spender,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wade Will Not Seek Re-election
Mr. Ben Wade (U.C.P.), who resigned the State seat of Barwon to oppose Mr. Scully (Lab.) in Gwydir on Saturday, will not contest the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidate Cheery in Defeat
"On the count in Wentworth to date it does not look as though any candidate can take the booby…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Women to Select Own Candidates
Women's committees to select suitable women candidates for Parliament and municipal councils will soon be set up in Sydney. The president of the Housewives' Association (Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →50-50 Mess After Elections Letterettes In Fifty Words Tidiness Hint
"Keep the city clean" regulations are a bit of a joke, seeing that the politicians who frame them make more mess than…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unemployed at Parliament
The gates of Parliament House were closed to-day to prevent the entry of a number of representatives of unemployed organisations, who…
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