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Politics & elections, 1947

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Brief Sitting to Open Parliament

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 9

LEGISLATION providing for a 40-hour week will not be introduced when the Legislative Assembly reassembles tomorrow…

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Brief Sitting to Open Parliament

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 9

LEGISLATION providing for a 40-hour week will not be introduced when the Legislative Assembly reassembles tomorrow…

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Country Candidate Backed To Win £50,000 In Sprint

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Great Win, a Newmarket outsider, was backed today to win £50,000 and was coupled in Newmarket-Cup doubles with Logical and Russia for another…

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Parliament Opens Today

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 6

State Parliament's last session before the Legislative Assembly elections in May or June will begin today…

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State Parliament Meets To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 3

The Legislative Assembly will meet to-day for the first time this year. The Premier, Mr. McGirr, will…

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Mulley Case Raised In Parliament

The Sun · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 2

When State Parliament resumed late this afternoon Mr. Gorman (Labor, Annandale) referred to the…

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Miners' Demonstration in Rain Wet March To Parliament House Collieries Idle As Protest Made

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 2

MORE than 2000 coal-miners, their wires and sympathisers paraded through rain in Sydney today. They marched to Parliament House to…

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Menzies Recalls Election Promise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Leader, of the Opposition, Mr. Menzies, said to-night:— "The reported announcement of…

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Mulley Case in Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 6

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that there was no law to deal with cancellation of…

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South Coast Miners Demonstrate at Parliament House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 9

MINERS: Above is the scene outside Parliament House, Sydney, yesterday, when more than 1,000 miners from the South Coast demonstrated after a procession through the streets. At right is one of ^ the banners they displayed during the procession…

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Belgian Parliament Besieged by Mob Rioters Run Amok

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

BRUSSELS, Thursday.--Machine guns and rifles ere used against rioted who stormed the Houses of Parliament in Brussels yesterday…

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Belgian Parliament Besieged by Mob Rioters Run Amok

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

BRUSSELS, Thursday.-- Machine-guns and rifles were used against rioters who stormed the Houses of Parliament in Brussels yesterday…

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Shots Fired to Stop Riot in Brussels Infuriated Mob At Parliament

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 1

BRUSSELS, Thursday.-- Police used machine-guns and rifles to quell a riot in Brussels yesterday. They fired over the heads of an infuriated mob of 75,000 attempting to break into the Houses of Parliament…

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Mob Besieges Belgian Parliament Ex-Prisoners Demand Higher Pensions 75,000 in Wild Demonstration

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Thursday.--Police used machine- guns and rifles to quell a riot in Brussels yesterday. They fired over the heads of an…

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Mob Besieges Belgian Parliament Ex-Prisoners Demand Higher Pensions 75,000 in Wild Demonstration

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Thursday.--Police used machine guns and rifles to quell a riot in Brussels yesterday. They fired over the heads of an…

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Mob Besieges Belgian Parliament Ex-Prisoners Demand Higher Pensions 75,000 in Wild Demonstration

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Thursday.--Police used machine-guns arid rifles to quell a riot in Brussels yesterday. They fired over the heads of an…

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Mob Besieges Belgian Parliament Ex-Prisoners Demand Higher Pensions 75,000 in Wild Demonstration

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 February 1947 · page 5

BRUSSELS, Thursday.--Police used machine-guns and rifles to quell a riot in Brussels yesterday. They fired over the Heads of an…

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Jap Reds in Big Bid for Election

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday. -- Aided by about £200,000, 60,000 organised Communists will spread the "R e d" doctrine throughout…

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Jap Reds in Big Bid for Election

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday. -- Aided by about £200,000, 60,000 organised Communists will spread the "Red" doctrine throughout…

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A.P.H.'s A.B.C. of Parliament "The Point of Parliament," by A. P. Herbert.—Methuen, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 10

MOST of this book appeared in "Punch," under the title of "Not So Silly: A Child's Guide to Parliament," and is now published…

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