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Politics & elections, 1960

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Thaunkupus Election Fiasco

Tharunka · Thursday 14 July 1960 · page 2

Hopes cherished by certain innocents in this institution, that this year’s Council elections might be election in the true sense of the word, have little chance of being realised…

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Bowling elections tonight

The Biz · Wednesday 20 July 1960 · page 4

Members of the Cabra-Vale Diggers Women's Bowling Club are reminded that the club's…

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Workshops Men Taking Demands to Parliament House

Tribune · Wednesday 3 August 1960 · page 3

PERTH: About 1500 workers at a lunch-hour meeting on Wednesday lost week at the Midland Junction railway workshops decided to take their demands to the State Parliament this week…

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Pages of the Past an Odd Election in 1884

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 3 August 1960 · page 4

Interest in Local Government affairs in Parramatta has grown considerably since the election of one alderman for the Prospect…

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Cabramatta District News Bowling Club elections

The Biz · Wednesday 3 August 1960 · page 5

The Cabra-Vale Diggers' Women's Bowling Club held its general meeting and election…

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Over the past 40 YEARS When we scattered our leaflets in Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 10 August 1960 · page 6

AFTER reading the article by Kath Thomas (Tribune July 20) about the tenants' struggles of the 1930s and…

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Kurri and Temora By-election Dates

Tribune · Wednesday 17 August 1960 · page 11

SYDNEY; Dates set in connection with the Kurri Kurri and Temora State by-elections are: Writs, Aug 29; nominations, Sept 5; polling day…

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By-elections on Oct. 8

Tribune · Wednesday 24 August 1960 · page 3

SYDNEY. -- Date for polling in the Temora and Kurri Kurri NSW by-elections has been changed to October 8. Other dates in…

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Communist policy in Kurri by-election Young worker as CPA's candidate

Tribune · Wednesday 14 September 1960 · page 9

KURRI (NSW): Mr. Jim Clark, former miners' lodge secretary and well- known leader of the…

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Popular Tribune Candidates: 24 so far

Tribune · Wednesday 14 September 1960 · page 11

There are now 24 candidates in the field for the most popular candidate competition, but we want at least 24 more if we are to have a widespread competition. THE competition will end on Friday December 9 at 6 p.m. and the…

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THE U.S. ELECTIONS: Candidates and Pledges

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 September 1960 · page 6

The reality of the political situation existing in America today was reflected in the Middle Eastern “plank” the Republican National Convention adopted as part of its platform for the forthcoming Presidential election campaign. The plank as originally written was a few sentences of vague generalities voicing pious wishes and hopes for peace in that unhappy region. The final…

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Candidates Must Be Financial

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 16 September 1960 · page 15

The N.S.W. Jewish Board of Deputies has sent out statements to enrolled members of…

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opportunity. Three Candidates For Student Post On University Council

Tharunka · Thursday 29 September 1960 · page 1

Three candidates will contest the by-election to fill the position' of undergraduate representative on the University Council. They are Mr M. G. Bonner B.E., Mr. I. T. Ernst B.Sc., Mr A. W. Evans B.Sc…

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Parliament Bid for "Reality" on China

Tribune · Wednesday 5 October 1960 · page 9

CANBERRA: Wrathful clamor from the Liberal Party's leading warmongers could not prevent Mr. T. Uren and other Labor speakers strongly demanding recognition of Chinese People's Republic in Parliament last week. THEY forced from Acting Prime Minister McEwen the reluctant…

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Kurri By-election

Tribune · Wednesday 5 October 1960 · page 12

KURRI: Voting in the Kurri by-election takes place next Saturday after a campaign in which…

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Competition Candidates

Tribune · Wednesday 5 October 1960 · page 11

DUE to the public holiday the figures this week are based on what came in by Friday afternoon, so…

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R.A.S. elections

The Biz · Wednesday 12 October 1960 · page 13

Mr. E. S. Playiadr, O,B.E., was recently declared elected, un opposed, as President of…

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Calare By-election

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 October 1960 · page 9

A by-election, for the election of a member of the House of Representatives will be held in the Division of…

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Liberal pre-selected as A.L.P. candidate!

Tribune · Wednesday 19 October 1960 · page 1

ADELAIDE: The South Australian ALP has pre-selected a member of the Liberal Country League as its candidate in a…

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50 Years Ago: Interest in Elections was Keen

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 October 1960 · page 10

Full results of the elections held the previous week were published in the Nepean Times of October 22, 1910. Liberal Party members were returned in both the Hawkesbury and Sherbrooke…

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