Editorial Growing Pains in Federal Parliament
The Sun · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 1
Few will quarrel with the decision of Labor Caucus fo recommend a larger Federal Parliament, even if this, as proposed, means increasing the number of members of Parliament by as much…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 2
CANBERRA, Friday.--Three hundred and fifty building workers, half of them English immigrants, today refused to work and marched on…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 2
CANBERRA, Friday.--Three hundred and fifty building workers,half of them English immigrants, today refused to work and marched on…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 2
CANBERRA, Friday.--Three hundred and fifty building workers, half of them English immigrants, today refused to work and marched on…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 2
CANBERRA, Friday.--Three hundred and fifty building workers, half of them English immigrants, today refused to work and marched on…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 2
CANBERRA, Friday.--Three hundred and fifty building workers, half of them English immigrants, today refused to work and marched on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Results And Lessons Of NSW And Q’d Elections
Tribune · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 5
The most important result of the New South Wales (and Queensland ) elections is the defeat of big business, its press parties. This victory for the labor movement is in no small…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 5
BRITISH and Australian building workers marching outside Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday. The men, who live a…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 16
"PARLIAMENTARY privilege" is a phrase which has been heard a lot in Canberra this week…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 5
CANBERRA, Friday.--More than 350 Australian and British building workers marched to Parliament House today to demand better living conditions in their quarters at Eastlake…
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The Methodist · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 4
Candidates are informed that the Entrance Examination of the Federal Examining Board will be held on the 26th. 27th and 28th November. In order to avoid misapprehension as to exemptions,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 May 1947 · page 30
In Canberra, Speaker Rosevear scotched the rumor that proposals for increase of Parliamentary pay and privileges…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Those 90,000 houses in three years They looked well in election speeches but the real figures won't add up
The Sun · Sunday 11 May 1947 · page 4
Mushrooms grow in only a few hours, But if Premier McGirr's housing dreams come true, a new…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The view that a bigger Parliament would be a better Parliament is held by the Federal Opposition…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 8
THE most important proposition mooted in Canberra for some time is the plan to enlarge…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 9
A larger Federal Parliament was a reform vital to Australia's progress, said Mr. H. M. Storey yesterday…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 16
COMMENTING on the report that the Labor Caucus had approved the principle of a larger Federal Parliament, the president of the…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 2
COMMENTING on the report that the Labor Caucus had approved the principle of a larger Federal Parliament, the president of the…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 2
COMMENTING on the report that the Labor Caucus had approved the principle of a larger Federal Parliament, the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ecstatic Welcome to Royal Family Triumphal Progress To Palace Warm Greetings by Parliament
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 May 1947 · page 5
LONDON, Tuesday.--With traditional fervor, London yesterday joyously welcomed home the Royal Family oh the last stage off their return…
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