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Politics & elections, 1946

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Gibraltar Report Due Today Will Be Presented To Parliament If Received In Time

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 7

The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) is expected to receive the official report on the Gibraltar incident today. If Mr. Forde gets the report in time he will…

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Lang Labor Candidate on Sick List

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 11

Mr. I. R. Grant, of Marsden Park, endorsed Lang Labor candidate for the Robertson Federal seat, is on the sick list…

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Support For Candidate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 10

After a tour of various parts of the electorate, Mr. Roy Wheeler, selected Liberal candidate for Robertson, reports that in each centre…

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Ex-WAAF Is Queen Candidate

The Sun · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 9

Ex-WAAAF brunette, 25- years-old Miss Terry Manion, of Goulburn, is today's entrant in the Queen of the…

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Questions In Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday.— Questions asked in the House of Representatives to-day and Ministers' replies included:…

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Few Heard Parliament's First Broadcast

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 8

Of 67 Sydney people telephoned last night, only 11 had listened to the first broadcast of the Federal Parliament yesterday. Twenty-eight had not listened…

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Little Change In The House in Parliament— By Our Canberra Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 2

THERE was something of anti[?] climax about the broadcasting of Parliament yesterday. To the observer in the Press gallery…

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How Parliament Sounded To The Listener in the Home— By a Correspondent who listened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 2

Members of the House of Representatives could not have chosen a more unfortunate subject for their amateur[?] hour premiere "on the air" yesterday than the Overseas Telecommunications Bill. Admittedly, it is an important bill;…

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Make Work Worthwhile. Reduce Taxation. the Candidate S Weekly Letter

The St George Call · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 3

It is surely [?] but an inspiration to us to [?] wrangling going on between the [?] delegates of the N.S.W. Traders [?] Labour Council who…

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Election Confirmed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 23

PARIS, Thursday.--A Communist attempt to unseat former French Premier Daladier was defeated when a commission of the Constituent…

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Liberal Party Candidate

The Biz · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 4

Mr. Ray Watson, Liberal candidate for Werrlwa, expects to be demobilised from the Royal Australian Navy. He has served four years in the Navy,…

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Questions In Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.— Questions asked in the House of Representatives to-day and Ministers' replies included:—…

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Parliament on the Air

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 2

Sir,—That dulcet-toned exponent of one-way freedom, Mr. Calwell, will live to rue the day when he induced his Government to introduce…

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M.H.R. Suspended By Parliament

The Sun · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday. -- For refusing to withdraw a statement that remarks by the Speaker (Mr. Rosevear) were "untrue," Mr. White (Lib., Victoria) was suspended in the…

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Liberal Party Organised For Election Fight

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 19

EX-SERVICEMEN constituted 74 per cent, of the Liberal Party's 23 election candidates. The Labor Party's percentage was less than 20, said the president of the N.S.W. division of the Liberal Party (Mr. W. H…

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Confusion Over Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 4

Some ratepayers were confusing the date of the by-election for the Fitzroy ward of the City Council and that of the election for the Sydney County…

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C.p. Candidates for Senate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The central council of the United Country Party, which met in Melbourne to-day, will press for two Country Party…

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Poultryman’s Gift To Election Fund

Tribune · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 6

A CABRAMATTA poultry farmer sent a crate of fowls to market and gave the amount received—more than £3—to the campaign fund for…

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A.W.U. Levy For Election Costs

The Sun · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Levies of 26 a member are to be collected by the Australian Workers' Union to assist the Labor…

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Mr. Chifley Gives Summary of Financial Position Statement to Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister and Treasurer, Mr. Chifley, reviewed the Commonwealth's financial position in a statement he read in the House of Representatives to-day. He said that although the war ended last September many war liabilities…

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