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Politics & elections, 1947

1,727 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 87

Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said, today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Candidate Backed In Quest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1947 · page 20

Mr. D. Crystal, of the Crystal Shirt Company, 677 Canterbury Rd., Belmore, said today that his firm was supporting a…

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Land Sales Defence in Parliament

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.-- After Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) last night described the Sydney Land Sales…

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Land Sales Defence in Parliament

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.-- After Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) last night described the Sydney Land Sales…

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Free Medicine Service Bill Before Parliament

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 8

Free medicines will be provided under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Bill, the second reading of which…

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Menzies Attacks Bill To Raise Parliament Salaries

The Sun · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--A case existed for review of Parliamentary salaries, but the question should be referred to an all-party committee of both Houses, the Opposition Leader (Mr. Menzies) declared today, in an attack on the Salaries Bill…

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Departments Criticised M.P. Urges Watch By Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.— Decisions by Government departments that should be given in a few days were often…

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Presentation of Petitions to Parliament a Quaint Old British Custom

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 June 1947 · page 7

As a traditional formality, originating in England, the Speaker in the Commonwealth House of Representatives asks at the beginning of each day's session whether any member has any petitions to…

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Editorial Parliament and the Salary Rise

The Sun · Thursday 5 June 1947 · page 1

The anger with which members of Parliament of all parties have greeted newspaper criticism of their salary increase will prove to most citizens the value and function of a free…

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Parliament Ending on All-nighter

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 7

CANBERRA, Friday.--In the 38 hours from 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday until 12.30 a.m. today, the House of Representatives had…

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Parliament at Full Speed Long Night Sitting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—When the Senate and the House of Representatives rose for supper last night there were rumours in the…

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Election Of P.P.U. General President

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 7

REFERRING to a suggestion recently discussed in these columns that the president of the Primary Producers' Union…

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Churches Council Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 June 1947 · page 11

The N.S.W. Council of Churches has elected the following officers:— Hon. president, Archbishop Mowll; president, Rev. T. A. Eastman; secretary,…

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Moonee Valley Today: Experts Review Big-Race Prospects Nationals Candidates Clash Today Valley Jumping Double Chances

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Many of the horses high up on charts on the Grand Nationals are among the runners in the big jumping double at the Williamstown meeting at Moonee Valley today…

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Moonee Valley Today: Experts Review Big-Race Prospects Nationals Candidates Clash Today Valley Jumping Double Chances

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1947 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Many of the horses high up on charts on the Grand Nationals are among the runners in the big jumping double at the Williamstown meeting at Moonee Valley today…

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