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Politics & elections, 1966

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Election Slogan Contest

Tribune · Wednesday 21 September 1966 · page 4

ENTRIES are already rolling in for Tribunes Election Slogan Contest…

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Queen Candidate to teach PE

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 September 1966 · page 7

WIZO Queen Candidate, Frey a Perec (19) of Hunters Hill, will soon be a qualified instructress of Physical…

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Candidate a Shoe Fancier

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 September 1966 · page 10

Petite, pert brunette, Sylvia Goldman of Bellevue Hill, sees her future clearly shaped. And the shape is a shoe. Ever since she was a little girl, she has wanted to have a shoe boutique of her own…

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University Co-operative Bookshop Limited Election of Directors

Tharunka · Wednesday 5 October 1966 · page 2

Nominations are invited for the election of Directors who retire by rotation. Such nominations other than of a retiring Director shall be…

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CPA election rally

Tribune · Wednesday 12 October 1966 · page 12

BRING your friends and make the Communist Party election rally at the Healy Hall, 168 Day Street…

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Queen Candidate wants to live in Kibbutz

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 October 1966 · page 7

A cheerful, happy natured young woman, Ruth regrets her stay in Israel was comparatively short, and hopes to return again “to live and work on a kibbutz”. A number of her relatives live in Israel…

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March to WA Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 19 October 1966 · page 12

PERTH: 'A protest march to Parliament House when the Brand Government's wage freeze…

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The Day 800 Hit Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 19 October 1966 · page 5

Tribune Industrial Roundsman JIM STEVENS, who travelled down to Canberra on the special train from Sydney hired for the ocasion, beats…

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"Pack Parliament": Protest call on wage freeze

Tribune · Wednesday 26 October 1966 · page 12

PERTH: WA Trades and Labour Council has called on trade unionists to pack Parliament House public galleries in protest against the proposed wage freeze by the Brand Government. The Government Bill to take…

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Plain Australian Election opinion

Tribune · Wednesday 26 October 1966 · page 2

MR A. Calwell, Federal Labor Leader, told a press conference in Canberra on Saturday morning that…

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“For Me?” Gordon Chater helps JNF Queen candidate

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 October 1966 · page 1

Sylvia Goldman, the National Council of Jewish Women's JNF Queen candidate, was in the centre of the attraction at the Brain Trust last Sunday, since the evening was organised to raise money to aid her candidacy,…

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CWA elections

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 1 November 1966 · page 2

A former group vice-president of the Country Women's Association chaired the annual meeting of the Guildford branch of the association recently…

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Buddhist Lifts Election fire on Holt Govt. Conscription Is the Voting Issue

Tribune · Wednesday 2 November 1966 · page 1

THE crux of the Federal election is: For or against conscription for a widening Vietnam war. Australians now face the fact that return of the…

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M. Jeanneney Confirme La Date Des Elections

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 11 November 1966 · page 1

L lieu en mars prochain, événement imprévu", a confirmé Jean-Marcel…

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Threat to freedom new election issue Holt Nailed on Police Spies Home, office burgled

Tribune · Wednesday 16 November 1966 · page 1

SYDNEY: A Liberal Reform candidate, Mr. Francis James, who has produced damning evidence of secret police breaking and entering his home and office, this week attacked the Government for whittling…

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U.S. election set-back Johnson Cops It Right on the Chin

Tribune · Wednesday 16 November 1966 · page 3

THE blow to the prestige of the American war-leader, President Johnson, is the outstanding feature, especially for Australia, of the US mid-term congressional elections of last month…

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Three Candidates Stand for Reid

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 22 November 1966 · page 1

Three candidates, representing the A.L.P., Liberal, and D.L.P., will contest the federal elections in the Reid electorate next Saturday…

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Polling Officer

The Biz · Wednesday 23 November 1966 · page 1

Mr. Vivian Fendley West, of Second Avenue, Fairfield, has been appointed new returning officer for the State…

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Election Results

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 29 November 1966 · page 1

Sitting Federal Labor Member for Reid, Mr. Tom Uren, was returned to Parliament by an absolute…

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Elections 1966--State by State round-up New South Wales Right-wing splitters' role

Tribune · Wednesday 30 November 1966 · page 3

THE general swing to the Government in Saturday's Federal election--except in Western Australia--was most marked in South Australia and New South Wales. The Government failed to…

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