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Politics & elections, 1959

152 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 8

Election team leader to tour coalfields

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1959 · page 10

SYDNEY: Mr. J. Hughes, Communist candidate for Bankstown and leader of the N.S.W. Communist election…

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Opening of N.S.W. Election Campaign Cheers greet 5-year plan to end housing shortage

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1959 · page 9

SYDNEY: A crowded hall cheered frequently as it listened on Friday night to Mr. J. R. Hughes outline the policy of the Communist Party in the N.S.W. elections. PARTICULARLY loud applause…

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Election-eve call in S.A.

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1959 · page 1

ADELAIDE: The S.A. State Executive of the Communist Party has called on Party members and supporters to help on polling day…

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Four Communists standing in W.A. elections

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1959 · page 10

PERTH: Four Communist candidates will stand in the West Australian State elections to be held on March 21. THE seats to be contested, and the Communist candidate standing…

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Kevin Dwyer's Election Tour

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 March 1959 · page 10

Kevin Dwyer, endorsed Labor candidate for Hawkesbury electorate, is well known in the district. He has received…

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Randwick’s Jewish Poll Candidate

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 6 March 1959 · page 3

Another Jewish candidate will contest the State elections on March 21. He is 30-years-old real…

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Liberal Candidate Slates Council

The Biz · Wednesday 11 March 1959 · page 1

The Labor dominated Fairfield Council's hostile attitude towards endorsed Liberal candidate David Fairs was unreasonable, childish and entirely undemocratic, the Liberal candidate…

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The Elections and the Moral Issues

The Biz · Wednesday 11 March 1959 · page 6

A statement on the moral issues involved in the forthcoming State elections has keen issued by the N.S.W. Council of Churches…

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Nurses call on candidates for equal pay pledge

Tribune · Wednesday 11 March 1959 · page 11

SYDNEY: A mass meeting of 250 nurses, called by the Nurses' Association of N.S.W., last week unanimously called on candidates for the State elections to pledge to amend the State equal pay legislation to cover nurses…

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New Radial Liberal Candidate's Crane Views

The Biz · Wednesday 18 March 1959 · page 26

A new radial crane which is claimed to solve many lifting problems in small And large…

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Ball Aids Candidate

The Biz · Wednesday 18 March 1959 · page 5

Over 500 people attended a highly successful gala night at the Cabramatta Civic Ballroom last week. The function was held to…

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Election T.v. Coverage

The Biz · Wednesday 18 March 1959 · page 5

On election night on Saturday, March 21, channel 2 will keep viewers in tench With the, latest…

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Polling Booths

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 March 1959 · page 9

Following fire the polling booths in Nepean electorate for the elections next Saturday: Blaxland, Scouts' clubroom;…

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Nouvelles de France Les élections municipales

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 20 March 1959 · page 1

Le premier tour des élections municipales en France—et le tour unique et dans les villes de plus de habitants—n'a pas été marqué,…

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Elections These Days Are Merely a Matter of Course to Most People

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 March 1959 · page 1

People, parties, and circumstances change. It's just as well. Take politics: At one time the world and all that was contained therein, was for the privileged few…

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Candidate Fails

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 March 1959 · page 6

MR. B. W. ROSEN, Communist Party candidate for the new Paddington-Waverley seat in last Saturday’s…

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Seeks Re-election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 March 1959 · page 10

Mr. David J. Benjamin this week said he would stand for re-election as president of the Judean…

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Witch-hunters routed tin Fed. Parliament Stinging attack on Hurseys' false evidence

Tribune · Wednesday 1 April 1959 · page 9

CANBERRA: The late McCarthy reigned supreme oh the Government benches here last…

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Just briefly Big vote in Soviet elections

Tribune · Wednesday 1 April 1959 · page 4

MOSCOW--More than 99 per cent of the people went to the polls in the local government elections which have just been held…

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Election results show: Australian Workers Can't Be Stampeded

Tribune · Wednesday 1 April 1959 · page 11

ELECTION campaigning always centres round a particular individual, but few projects…

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