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Politics & elections, 1949

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 81 of 104

Election Speeches Tonight

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 9

Leader of the Labor (non-Communist) Party, Mr. J. T. Lang, will deliver his policy speech in the…

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Election Speeches Tonight

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 7

Leader of the Labor (non-Communist) Party, Mr. J. T. Lang, will deliver his policy speech in the…

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Election Speeches Tonight

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 7

Leader of the Labor (non-Communist) Party, Mr. J. T. Lang, will deliver his policy speech in the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Election Speeches Tonight

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 7

Leader of the Labor (non-Communist) Party,, Mr. J. T. Lang, will deliver his policy speech in the…

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Election Speeches Tonight

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 7

Leader of the Labor (non-Communist) Party, Mr. J. T. Lang, will deliver his policy speech in the…

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Keen Election Campaign Labour Chifley Opens Campaign Rockhampton Crowd From Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 4

ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, began his election campaign Here to-night. About 800 people heard him speak and gave…

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Federal Elections the Nominators

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 1

Nominations for the Federal elections to be held on Saturday, December 12, closed on Monday, and there were no surprises so far as electorates…

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The Life-Saving Movement in Penrith Election of Officers Next Week-end

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 1

To carry the formation of the local Life Saving Club a step further, the newly-established Penrith sub-branch of the Royal Life Saving Society…

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Miners Reject Communists Swing In Northern Field Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 3

Communists may lose control of the Miners' Federation as a result of a ballot just concluded on the Northern coalfields for the Central Council. By this ballot Northern representation on the…

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196 Candidates In New Zealand Poll

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday (A.A.P.-Reuter). —At the general election in a fortnight's time 196…

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Crowded Election Meetings Brushes with Interjectors Calwell In Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 5

The Minister for Immigration, Mr. A. A. Calwell, at an election meeting last night threatened to leave the platform and deal with a man in the audience, who said a statement…

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Sydney Diary Doctor from Death Railway: Caravan elections: New form of wonder drug: Exam hazards

The Sun · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 25

A LOT of chaps who came out of the horrors of the Burma-Siam railway won't forget Dr. Stanley S. Pavillard, a captain…

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Women prepare for elections

The Sun · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 32

PREPARING for the elections next month, women members of the opposing parties are…

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Miners Reject Left-wing Candidates A.L.P. win in northern poll

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 9

Northern miners have rejected Left-wing candidates and elected Labor Party supporters to three of four positions on the Central Council…

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Lively Hecklers Greet Calwell at Election Meeting

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 7

AFTER the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) had addressed a Gladesville election meeting last night, a young interiector went ap to the official table and tried to talk to him personally…

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Lively Hecklers Greet Calwell at Election Meeting

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 7

AFTER the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) had addressed a Gladesville election meeting last night, a young interjector went up to the official table and tried to talk to him personally…

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Lively Hecklers Greet Calwell at Election Meeting

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 7

AFTER the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) had addressed a Gladesville election meeting last night, a young interjector went up to the official table and tried to talk to him personally…

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Lively Hecklers Greet Calwell at Election Meeting

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 7

AFTER the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calweli) had addressed a Gladesville election meeting last night, a young interjector went up to the official table and tried to talk to him personally…

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Municipal Candidate

The Biz · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 10

The Fairfield A.L.P. Municipal Assembly had selected Mr. E. H. McGrath, LL.B., as the Official A.L.P. candidate to contest the vacancy for the Second Ward…

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Municipality of Fairfield. Extraordinary Election. One Alderman Second Ward

The Biz · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 10

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1919, as amended, and Ordinances thereunder, an Extraordinary…

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