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Politics & elections, 1948

1,544 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 78

55-Mile Trek By M.L.A.S For Candidate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 3

Two Liberal Party members of the State Parliament have undertaken to walk about 55 miles between them making a…

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Kogarah By-election. Mr. Oxford's Radio Address

The St George Call · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1

Speaking over 2KY on Monday night Mr. H. W. Oxford, the endorsed Labor candidate, warned electors against being stampeded by the press into…

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Election Move in Tasmania

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 3

HOBART, Friday.--The Legislative Council last night, by 13 votes to three, amended the Cosgrove…

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Election Move in Tasmania

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 4

HOBART, Friday.--The Legislative Council last night, by 13 votes to three, amended the Cosgrove…

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South African Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 July 1948 · page 3

PRETORIA, July 9 (A.A.P.).— The South African Government to-day proclaimed the dissolution of the Senate, in which the…

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Behind a fire-breathing, kicking donkey U.S. Democrats will pick a candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 July 1948 · page 7

PRESIDENT Harry Truman now seems assured of Presidential nomination when the Democratic…

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Kogarah candidates confident

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 July 1948 · page 6

Liberal Party candidate D. D. Cross yesterday said he expected to win the Kogarah…

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Communist Bid at Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 1

To-day's election would give waterside workers a chance to rid their important industry of Communist domination, said…

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Communist Move For Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 3

SEOUL, July 11 (A.A.P. Reuter).—North Korea Radio (Soviet zone) announced yesterday that the North Korea…

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Wharfies election--Red issue

The Sun · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 7

Official Labor and Communist candidates will engage today in one of the bitterest election contests…

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Two club candidates seek Quest honors

The Sun · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 7

Ladies' Social Council of the Coogee-Randwick RSS & A Club has entered a second candidate in the Miss Australia Quest. She is 19-year-old…

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Truman Is 'Certain' Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday. -- The Democratic Convention is certain to nominate…

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Ku Klux in Election War

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.--The Klu Klux Klan which plans an open war against Henry Wallace's party, planted burning crosses in front of the homes of two of Wallace's negro…

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Truman Has Opponent New Candidate At Convention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 12 (A.A.P.).—Senator Claude Pepper (Florida) announced last night that he would be a…

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Teachers' election aid offer

The Sun · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 5

More than 80 schoolteachers have offered to assist Mr. H. W. Oxford, ALP candidate in Kogarah…

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Rumors 'Hit at Lab. Candidate'

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 11

Mr. H. W. Oxford said last night that he had been the victim of scurrilous letters and rumors in the Kogarah by-election campaign…

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Election Soon In Tasmania

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 9

HOBART, Monday.--The battle of tactics which will probprobably end in an election soon in Tasmania will be resumed…

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"Scurrilous Letters" in By-election

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 3

Mr. H. W. Oxford, Labor candidate in the Kogarah by-election, said, in " a broadcast from 2KY last…

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Five Ejected From Parliament House

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Police tonight ejected four women and a man from the Legislative Assembly after pamphlets had fluttered from the strangers' gallery into…

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Democrats Have New Candidate

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.). -- A wave of sentiment for the nomination…

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