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Politics & elections, 1946

2,379 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 119

Negro-hater Leads in Georgia Election Count

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 1

ATLANTA (Georgia), Thursday. -- Negro-hater Eugene Talmadge has a two-to-one lead over the other two candidates in the Gerogie…

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Negro-hater Leads in Georgia Election Count

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 July 1946 · page 1

ATLANTA (Georgia), Thursday. -- Negro-hater Eugene Talmadge has a two-to-one lead over the other two candidates in the Georgia…

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Right Of Reply To Parliament Radio

The Sun · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 7

CANBERRA, Friday.--Th e Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) stated in the House of Representatives today that he would consider the question of granting to persons attacked in Parliament broadcasts the right of reply…

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Total Coal Tie-up Averted, Minister Tells Parliament

The Sun · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.--Settlement of engine-drivers' seniority dispute, which threatened to tie up all NSW coal mines is expected today. Miners leaders in Sydney are also hopeful that a threatened…

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Isolationist Defeated Senate Candidate In Montana

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 18 (A.A.P.). —One of America's strong Isolationists, 64-year-old Senator Burton K. Wheeler, has apparently been…

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Press Hysteria on Wharfie Elections No “Red Rout” In Unions

Tribune · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

Results of recent union ballots refute press claims that the defeat of Communist officials in the Sydney branch of the Waterside workers’ Federation shows a general revulsion…

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Candidate's Weekly Letter

The St George Call · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

The Queensland meat strike has ended with the angry disillusionment of the men who had allowed themselves to be gulled by a few Communistic leaders…

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M.h.r's Election Charge "Vicious Campaign Plot" "Whispering" Accusation

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 8

CANBERRA, Friday.--Mr. Charles Morgan (Lab., Reid) complained in the House of Representatives today that for months he had been the victim of a vicious campaign in his…

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Fireside Parliament

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 16

CANBERRA in the past has been remote from our lives. Now, however, that we may listen-in at our fireside to our…

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Questions in Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 4

CANBERRA, Friday. — Questions asked in Parliament to-day and Ministers' replies included:- SENATE…

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Forde Electioneers in your Liberator Sydney Edition

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 1

ARMY Minister Frank Forde's election campaign will be pretty expensive -- for the taxpayer! Forde, suffering acutely from an attack of election jitters, is spending more week-ends in his electorate…

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Election Issues Are Now Taking Shape Political Form Guide

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 9

A FANFARE of trumpets introduced Radio Parliament. It was such a knightly fanfare…

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Woman to Stand for Parliament

Truth · Sunday 21 July 1946 · page 30

ORANGE Saturday.—Four candidates will face the barrier in the Federal elections for Calare, as Mrs. Madge R. Roberts, residential,…

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TODAY: Political Roundabout ELECTIONS King-makers slashed at every head

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 July 1946 · page 26

RICHARD GARDINER CASEY needed all his tact and diplomacy to walk the gauntlet of provocative jest and conjecture about his future in Australian politics…

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Parliament May Rise August 9

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 7

CANBERRA, Sunday.--Federal Parliament is unlikely to rise for the election campaign until August 9. The Government still has 15 bills it…

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61 Per Cent. Listened to Parliament Mixed Views On Broadcast Value

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 9

Of 100 persons whom the Daily Telegraph telephoned last night, 61 said they had listened to A.B.C. broadcasts of Federal Parliament…

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Coal and Election Prospects Speculation On Mr. Casey By Our Canberra Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 2

Coal, Mr. Casey, and the Country Party, in that order of appearance, were the leading subjects around the lobbies of Parliament House in the past week. The order of importance was the same, too, because both Government and…

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Police Arrest Opposition Turkish Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 1

ISTANBUL, July. 21 (A.A.P). —On the eve of, what were, to be the first democratic-style elections [?] Turkish history, Istanbul police…

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Communist Wins Election Three Now On Same Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Sunday. — The extraordinary election held yesterday to fill a vacancy on the Cessnock Municipal Council was won…

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Rioting on Turkish Election Eve 4 Killed, Party Leaders Jailed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--Rioting broke out last night in the streets of Ankara (Turkish capital) on the eve of the first general elections for 22 years…

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