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Politics & elections, 1949

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 104

Labor Candidate Wins Vic. Election

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Mr. peter J. Randies, Labor Party candidate, won the Brunswick seat in the…

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Crisis may "force election"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.) .--Britain's economic crisis might force an…

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London Angle On Dollar Crisis: Election in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is to enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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London Angle On Dollar Crisis: Election in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is fo enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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Angle Dollar Crisis: Election in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is to enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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London Angle On Dollar Crisis: Election in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is to enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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London Angle On Dollar Crisis: Election Bn in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is to enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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London Angle On Dollar Crisis: Election in U.K. TIPPED

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Illness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps), who is to enter a nursing home in Switzerland tomorrow, is expected to precipitate an early…

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LABOR'S BY-ELECTiON Win in Victoria Tory Total Flops Badly

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 3

The anxiety of the daily newspapers to smother up the result of the by-election for the Brunswick seat in the Victorian…

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Liberal Candidate Says Action Against Communism Too Late

Nepean Times · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

Speaking at the formation of a Branch of the Liberal Party at Kurrajong on Wednesday evening last, Mr. Roy Wheeler, Liberal Candidate for…

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Belgium's Elections

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 4

Brussels, the elections for the Belgian Chamber and Senate are only of secondary interest to…

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Political Roundabout More talk of an early election

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 July 1949 · page 30

POLITICAL organisers have been alerted again for a snap Federal election. A direction to Government printers in Canberra…

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Election Fight in Britain Begins Autumn Poll Predicted From Our Staff Correspondent And A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, July 24.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and Mr. Churchill yesterday fired their first shots in a general election campaign. The Conservative Party— in expectation of an election in…

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No by-election while strike on

The Sun · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 8

The State Government will not fix a date for the Redfern by-election until the coal strike is over…

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Sporting Spring Candidates for "Rosehill" Cup Hurry Up and Foxzami Rivalry Interstate Clash at Canterbury

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 12

The S.T.C. has selected Canterbury Racecourse for the second leg of its big winter double, the Rosehill…

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Liberal Candidate for Grayndler

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 3

The Liberal Party Selection Committee last night selected Fredrick Fenworth Fryer, 36, as the Liberal candidate for the new…

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Bank fight will be major issue at Federal elections

The Sun · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 2

The Liberal Party will make bank nationalisation a major election issue, State president of the Party (Mr. W. H. Spooner) said today. "To fail to do so would be…

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F. R. PETERSON'S London Diary Reactions to dock strike: A blueprint for elections

The Sun · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday.--In newsreel movie houses at the weekend Britons cheered pictures of troops unloading food on London docks, cheered Churchill, gave Cripps sympathetic silence…

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Editorial Banks Are Still the Election Issue

The Sun · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 3

All Australians who love personal freedom as much as they detest living in a socialised antheap will welcome the Privy Council's rejection of the Commonwealth's appeal in the…

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Banking Fight May Be Carried on View Of British Authorities Influence of New Election

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Prominent legal authorities believe that the, Australian banking fight is not yet over. Despite the Privy Council ruling…

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