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Politics & elections, 1941

1,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 75

Queensland State Elections Labor Government Returned to Office

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 6

The Queensland Labor Government has been returned to office with a large majority as the result of the elections held in that State last Saturday…

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Last Saturday's Elections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 9

IN Queensland and South Australia the State Governments have been returned to office as the result of elections held last Saturday…

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Cleric Independent Candidate Resented

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 9

U.A.P. officials resent what they term the intrusion into the Mosman State electorate of the Rev. D. P. Macdonald, minister of Mosman Presbyterian Church…

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Petrol Ration and Dollar Exchange. Question in Parliament. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 6

In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. McCall (U.A.P., N.S.W.) asked the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, if the petrol ration had been reduced because the dollar…

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Parliament May Rise To-day. Labour Helps to Shorten Proceedings. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 6

The Federal Parliament has now some hope of rising for Easter to-day or to-night. Proceedings have been unexpectedly shortened by Labour acceptance of the child…

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Candidate Opposes Pre-selection. Rev. D. P. Macdonald's Reply to Critics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 8

The principle of party pre-selectlon of election candidates was opposed yesterday by the Rev. D. P. Macdonald, who has decided to contest the Mosman seat at the State elections…

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Candidate with Plenty of Punch

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Fight promotion, was mingled with the formal declaration today of the poll for the Adelaide seat…

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Home News. Federal Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 1

The House of Representatives adjourned yesterday, and will be reassembled as soon as practicable after the return in Australia of the Prime Minister.Mr…

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Parliament Adjourns. Report From Mr. Menzies. "Semi-secret Session," CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 9

The House of Representatives, which adjourned to-day, will be assembled again as soon as practicable after the return to Australia…

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Youth Goes To Parliament Fascinating Social Experiment At Easter

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 April 1941 · page 13

YOUTH is getting busy. Age will have to look to its laurels, or gum-leaves, or whatever it uses as a symbol of superiority…

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Labor Selects Candidates

The Sun · Saturday 5 April 1941 · page 3

A former Labor Senator, Mr. J. B. ("Digger") Dunn, has been selected to contest the Manly seat against Mr. A. E. Reid. M.L.A…

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Mair Silent on Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 April 1941 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Mair) declined yesterday to reveal the date of the State elections. "There is no great urgency to…

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Queensland Election Brisbane

Truth · Sunday 6 April 1941 · page 22

COUNTING of votes to-day in two of the close three-cornered metropolitan seats ended in the election of two aldermen of the…

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Won't Tell Even Best Friend Election Date Mair Is Keeping Secret

The Sun · Sunday 6 April 1941 · page 11

The Premier, Mr. Mair, is keeping to himself a secret the whole of New South Wales would like to know --…

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Mair Confident Of Election Win DUNGOG

The Sun · Sunday 6 April 1941 · page 3

"I have no doubt whatever of the return of the Government at the elections," the Premier, Mr. Mair, told the Gloucester U.A.P. electorate…

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The N.s.w. Elections

Tribune · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 1

Lloyd Ross, renegade left, in the “Railroad” accuses the N.S.W. left, in general, of not waning a “Labor” Govt, in the State…

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State Elections by June 7. Mr. Martin's Forecast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 8

The Minister for Works and Local Government, Mr. L. O. Martin, told the annual conference of the Local Government Engineers' Association yesterday tnat the State elections…

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Election Day Known Soon

The Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Mair) announced to-day that the date of the State elections will be announced within the next few days…

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Four Bills "Youth Parliament"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 April 1941 · page 3

Australian youth are flocking to Sydney this week from all over the Commonwealth—lads from the coal pits, intellectuals from the University,…

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Child Endowment Bill Passed by Federal Parliament

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 April 1941 · page 8

The taxation bill to finance the nation-wide child endowment scheme passed through all stages of the House of Representatives last week…

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