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Politics & elections, 1956

132 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7

Mobbs Is Candidate for S.c.c

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1956 · page 1

Alderman E. A. Mobbs will be a candidate at Sydney County Council…

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Water Supply for Emu Plains Petition to Parliament for Higher Priority

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 March 1956 · page 1

Emu Plains Progress Association is making an allout effort to obtain a higher priority for the water scheme for Emu Plains. The scheme has for some time had the approval of the Department and Blue…

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Penrith R.S.L. Club Election of Officers

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 March 1956 · page 6

The annual meeting of Penrith R.S.L. Club was held in the sub-branch's room in Lethbridge Street on Monday evening and…

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CPSU Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 14 March 1956 · page 12

MOSCOW: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union elected a Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee composed of N. S. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee; A. B. Aristov, N. I. Belyayev, L. I. Brezhnev, E. A. Furtseva,…

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Vietnam Election Fraud Exposed by Burchett

Tribune · Wednesday 14 March 1956 · page 4

The South Vietnam elections of March 4 were so patently fraudulent that Australian dailies have refrained from gloating too much over dictator Diem's "victory," But the elections were important for Australia…

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Les Elections Grecques

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 16 March 1956 · page 3

T ES élections du 19 février, en Grèce, ont suscité une grande attention dans le monde parce qu'elles semblaient…

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Parliament Centenary

Tribune · Wednesday 21 March 1956 · page 12

MAY 22 will be the centenary of parliamentary government in New South Wales. A notable event in the democratic…

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Curious Silence on Centenary of Nsw Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 21 March 1956 · page 7

WITH only two months to go, the NSW Government remains curiously silent about the Centenary…

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Lib "Warmonger" Accusation made in Parliament CANBERRA: "You're a warmonger!"

Tribune · Wednesday 21 March 1956 · page 10

THIS full-throated cry from the Labor benches was music to the ears as it reverberated through the House of Representatives…

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Kingswood-Orchard Hills Junior Farmers Election of Officers

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 March 1956 · page 7

The annual meeting of Kingswood-Orchard Hills Junior Farmers was held on March 13 and was well attended, despite wet…

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C.p.a. Candidates for Legislative Assembly

Tribune · Tuesday 27 March 1956 · page 10

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Communist candidates stand on this policy

Tribune · Tuesday 27 March 1956 · page 10

COMMUNISTS in Western Australia are contesting the State election on a policy which includes: Basic wage rise and increased margins, equal pay and better…

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Liberals Trounced in Wa Election

Tribune · Wednesday 11 April 1956 · page 2

PERTH: Last Saturday's State election resulted in a tremendous defeat for the Liberal-Country Party…

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Ceylon Election Gives a Vote for Peace

Tribune · Wednesday 11 April 1956 · page 4

Tea shares fell on the London Stock Exchange and world peace hopes soared with the same velocity when the Ceylonese general election results came through. THE Ceylonese have voted for…

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Posta[?] Voting Cunnigham By-election

The St George Call · Thursday 12 April 1956 · page 7

Any elector enrolled and qualified to vote for the Division of Cunningham who will absent from that Division on…

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Communists in Ceylon Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 18 April 1956 · page 4

COLOMBO--The Communist Party of Ceylon will have three seats in the new Parliament, compared with only one…

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Queensland Election May 19 Communists contesting eight seats

Tribune · Wednesday 9 May 1956 · page 9

Queensland workers are determined that the State elections there on May 19 will repeat the anti-Menzies victories of the recent NSW and WA elections…

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Candidates

Tribune · Wednesday 9 May 1956 · page 9

JIM HENDERSON (Fortitude Valley) Shared the honor, with Fred Paterson, of being the first…

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Queensland candidates

Tribune · Wednesday 16 May 1956 · page 9

BELOW are some of the candidates who will contest Saturday's Queensland State election for the Communist…

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Tories Crushingly Beaten in Qld Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 23 May 1956 · page 11

BRISBANE: Despite their most determined effort since 1932, the Liberal-Country Party coalition were…

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