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Politics & elections, 1949

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 104

State Zionists Decide on Election Reform

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

Important issues were discussed at the monthly meeting of the State Zionist Council under the chairmanship of Mr H. B…

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Liberals Plan for Election

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.-- The Federal president of the Liberal Party (Mr. Casey) will report to the…

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Federal Election In Germany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 August 1949 · page 2

For the second time within generation Germans will go to the polls to-morrow to put into operation a federal democratic…

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Best haters of Allies will win German election

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 August 1949 · page 6

FRANKFURT, Sat. -- Victory in tomorrow's elections in Western Germany will go to candidates who can heap the bitterest abuse on…

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Germans Vote Parliament For West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 1

FRANKFURT, August 14 (A.A.P.).—Western Germany is going to the polls to-day to elect a…

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Stop Press German Elections

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 20

LONDON, MONDAY. --With 20,000,000 voles counted in the West German elections, the Chiristian Democrets (Conservetive) and free…

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Germans turn Tory in first free election

The Sun · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 8

FRANKFURT, Tuesday. -- The new Federal Republic of Western Germany will start life next month with the reins firmly held by the anti-Socialist, Church-supported…

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Election to V.R.C. committee

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Mon.--The Victoria Racing Club today elected Mr. S. R. C. Wood, youngest of the four…

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Sporting Hawkesbury Races at Rosehiu Spring Candidates Engaged

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 12

The Benson Quality Handicap, run over seven furlongs, and the Hawkesbury Grand Handicap, run over…

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Out to Beat Senator Taft—Badly—at Next Year's Polls A.F.L.'s Blunt Warning to Author of Anti-Union Act U.S. Unions to Step-up Political Plans for Congress Elections

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 6

The President of America's Federation of Labor (Mr. William Green) had a blunt, talk recently with Senator Taft, co-author of the infamous Taft-Hartley Anti-Union…

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Liberals Confer Election Of Officers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday —Mr. R. G. Casey was re-elected to-day unopposed as Federal President…

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Election Funds Rejected

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 12

CANBERRA, Wednesday. --The Federal Council of the Liberal Party has rejected offers by…

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Election Funds Rejected

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 12

CANBERRA, Wednesday. --The Federal Council of the Liberal Party has rejected offers by…

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Election Funds Rejected

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wednesday. --The Federal Council of the Liberal Party has rejected offers by…

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Council Polling Booth at Orchard Hills

Nepean Times · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 7

Orchard Hills Fruitgrowers' Association, in a letter read at the meeting of Penrith Council on Thursday evening, asked for the re-opening of the…

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Mitchell Federal Electorate Proposed Polling Booth at Lemongrove

Nepean Times · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 3

Lemongrove is now in Mitchell Federal Electorate (not in Macarthur, as is the rest of Penrith), but so far no provision has been made for a polling…

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Germans Urged to Vote in West Parliament Polls

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 1

FRANKFURT, —Catholics of Germany were urged by their Bishops to vote in last Sunday's elections for the new National…

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Fifty Years Ago By-election for Mulgoa Council

Nepean Times · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 2

The nomination of candidates in the extraordinary election for an alderman of Mulgoa Council, due to the resignation of Aid. Hudson, took place…

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Delegates clash over R.S.L. election

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 10

Amid uproar, delegates to the Returned Servicemen's League State Congress yesterday challenged the election of Mr. Ken Bolton as…

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Should 'Flout Election Law' Go To prison For freedom, Says F.S.A. Man

The Land · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 22

N.S.W. CITIZENS should flout the 70-hour preelection publicity ban and go to gaol rather than submit to this control. Mr. B. Cole (Molong) said this at the F.S.A…

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