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Politics & elections, 1943

2,050 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 103

Labour Wins S.a. By-election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 8

ADELAIDE Tuesday.—H. E. Bowden (A.L.P. has won the byelection for the South Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Gouger,…

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Dame Enid Lyons, Candidate

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Dame Enid Lyons, widow of former Prime Minister Mr. J. A…

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Use of Films "For Elections"

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.-- The Opposition Leader (Mr. Fadden) has asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to order…

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Election Petrol

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 4

When our brave soldiers returned from the Middle East after an absence of three years of awful fighting, the…

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Election will Six post-war life Constitutional lawyer, whose candidature for the Senate was rejected by the U.A.P. Selection Committee

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 6

THE U.A.P. Senate selection stands. I am not one of those who ever thought it would be disturbed. For my part, the matter was ended as soon as the committee had made its choice…

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Candidates Claim Informal Ballot Papers Admitted

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 12

Two more protests were entered yesterday against the Greyhound Owners and Trainers' Association ballot, which closed on Sunday. One of the grounds for the protests, made by Mr…

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Martheus Brilliant Canterbury Candidate Over 'Four'

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 11

Martheus galloped brilliantly at Randwick yesterday to run half a mile, wide out on the course…

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Willoughby Candidate

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 4

MR. SYDNEY SMITH, president of the N.S.W Cricket Association and secretary of the Australian Prisoners of War Relatives Association, is…

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Films in Election; Protest by Fadden

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Fadden) sent a strong protest to the Prime Minister today following the…

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Election Miss for Young Campaigners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 7

CANDIDATES for the Federal elections have been told that they cannot employ young, able-bodied men or women for campaign work…

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Films in Election; Protest by Fadden

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Fadden) sent a strong protest to the Prime Minister today following the…

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Election Miss for Young Campaigners

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 7

CANDIDATES for the Federal elections have been told that they cannot employ young, able-bodied men or women for campaign work…

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Members Of Parliament Inundated With Chain Letters About Butter Rationing

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Members of Federal Parliament, and Cabinet Ministers in particular, are being subjected to criticism by a new form of chain letter, printed on a uniform plan, and obviously part of an organised campaign protesting against butter rationing, cream restrictions and the…

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Federal Elections Rolls Close This

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 3

The writs for the forthcoming Federal elections will be issued this Friday, 16th inst, and thus the rolls to be used at the elections will close at…

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Dame Enid Lyons to Seek Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 7

HOBART, Wednesday.—Dame Enid Lyons, wife of the former Prime Minister, the late Mr. J. Lyons, has been endorsed as the U.A.P…

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Woman Candidate Not to Stand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 7

Because the Australian Women's Party disagrees with her policy of universal service for defence, Miss Grace Scoble…

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Meet J. B. Miles Communist Candidate And Leader

Tribune · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 3

From a youthful British worker, stirred to chant for the first time “The Red Flag” at one of Kier Hardie’s Socialist meetings in County Durham, John Bramwell Miles, now in his 55th…

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Miles Knocks Anti-labor Election Bogeys

Tribune · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 1

Much energy, newspaper space and radio time is being expended to divert electors from the real enemy. Fadden and Hughes, Menzies and the…

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ELECTION Beware Of Employers’ Provocation

Tribune · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 3

As part of a campaign to turn the electors against Labor, the master bakers have precipitated a “bread strike,” in the hope that there will be an irritating bread shortage on…

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Union Election Gift

Tribune · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 6

The last monthly meeting of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees Union voted that £2/2/- be donated to each bf the election…

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