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Sydney · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1944

1,435 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 72

Europe wants free elections

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 December 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Sat.--Improvised elections in liberated areas are better man imported Governments, the exiled Czechoslovak Government in London…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be.the first meeting for several…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be the first meeting for several…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be the first meeting for several…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be the first meeting for several…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be the first meeting for several…

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Spanish Parliament Stirs

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

MADRID, Monday.--A meeting of the Spanish Legislative Assembly has been called for December 29. This will be the first meeting for several…

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Constitution Framed of Liberal Party Veto Power Over Candidates From Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 December 1944 · page 4

ALBURY, Sunday.—Representatives of Non-Labour parties, in conference yesterday, formed the Liberal Party of Australia and adopted a draft constitution. The conference ended after a three-days'…

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Stop Press French General Elections. London, Tuesday.-- Paris Radio

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 December 1944 · page 16

Says that the French Consultative Assembly rejected a motion to postpone the French general elections…

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Stop Press French General Elections

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 December 1944 · page 16

LONDON, Tuesday.--Paris Radio says that the French Consultative Assembly rejected a motion to postpone the French general…

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No Postponement of French Elections

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 December 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday.--Paris Radio says that the French Consultative Assembly yesterday rejected a motion to postpone the French…

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British Parliament to Debate on Greece

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 December 1944 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Under pressure from the Parliamentary Labor Party, Mr. Churchill has agreed to an emergency debate on the Greek situation today. WHEN Mr. Greenwood, on…

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Government Annexes Question in Parliament by Mr. C. MORGAN. M.H.R.

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 20 December 1944 · page 2

Mr. Morgan: During the debate on the Aluminium Industry Bill, the Attorney-General disclosed that a previous Government had established a forging plant…

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Abattoirs Elections

Tribune · Thursday 21 December 1944 · page 6

Mr. W. Carter was last week elected unopposed as secretary the Homebush Abattoirs [?] Board of the Meat Industr[?]…

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Liberal Party's First Candidate

The Sun · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 5

The Liberal Party's first candidate for election in Australia will be chosen to contest the Ryde by-election, rendered…

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Elections of Officers

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 1

The following Executive Officers were elected, unopposed: President (Continued on page 7)…

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Young Men’s Hebrew Association Annual General Meeting & Election of Officers

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 7

A record attendance with which the accommodation could not cope marked the 15th Annual Geneial Meeting and election of officers…

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Jockey in Shire Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 December 1944 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Bob Bailey, a former leading Victorian rider, is probably the first jockey to seek civic honors…

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Curtin Labor Party May Face Crisis in 1945 Likely Effect On General Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 7

CANBERRA, Monday.--Federal Labor politicians are predicting that 1945 will be the most momentous year in the party's recent history…

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Liberal Party to Fight By-election

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 December 1944 · page 2

"There will be complete understranding between the anti-Labor parties--Democrats and Liberals--in the campaign to win Ryde by-election,' said the president of the N.S.W. Democratic Party (Mr. Neville…

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