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Politics & elections, 1959

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Cabramatta District News Municipal Elections Independent Progress Team Cabra-vale Ward

The Biz · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 7

No. 1 candidate Is Irene Elizabeth Nance-- a widow with three sons-- a ratepayer for the past 19 years…

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Candidates Have Their Last Say

The Biz · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 15

With the municipal elections taking place on Saturday, this issue gives the various parties and candidates their last opportunity…

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Progress Candidates Submit Platform

The Biz · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 15

Since Independent Progress candidates commenced their campaign they have travelled further, spoken to more people and seen more of the Municipality, than the present political administration…

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Progress Candidates Submit Platform (Cent, from previous page)

The Biz · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 10

The appalling legacy of unfinished drainage schemes, unmade roads, clogged and weed rotten…

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Candidate aids owner, tenant

Tribune · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 12

SYDNEY.--One of the real-life coincidences which are stranger than fiction was recently experienced by Mr. W. Wood, communist candidate…

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Communist Candidate Opens Campaign for Cooks River

Tribune · Wednesday 2 December 1959 · page 3

SYDNEY: "The Communist Party is contesting the Cooks River by-election in order to put its fighting working class policy before the people," Communist candidate W. Buckley said this week…

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Election Results Today... Vote Count Continuing

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 9 December 1959 · page 1

Final result of Saturday's poll to elect the Council of the City Parramatta for the next three years is expected to be declared by the Returning Officer (Mr. E. S. Jameson) today…

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Communist plans to contest Qld elections

Tribune · Wednesday 9 December 1959 · page 8

BRISBANE: Queensland State Committee of the Communist Party has decided to participate fully in next year's…

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Militants Win N.s.w. Council Positions in A.r.u. Election

Tribune · Wednesday 9 December 1959 · page 3

SYDNEY: The recently-concluded ballot of the NSW branch of the Australian Railways Union for representatives on the…

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Communist Gains in N.z. Civic Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 9 December 1959 · page 9

AUCKLAND (New Zealand): The Communist vote has increased in the recent municipal elections. In Auckland, for example, two…

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March on Parliament

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 December 1959 · page 2

On December 4 the New Citizens Council at a special meeting passed the following…

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Election Result Contest Unlikely 5-vote defeat

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 16 December 1959 · page 1

Although he was defeated by only five votes in a poll of more than 13,000…

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