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Politics & elections, 1969

86 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5

La Victoire Du Perdant L'election de Richard Nixon présente tant de traits originaux que le commentateur n'a que l'embarras du choix

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 24 January 1969 · page 3

"REVANCHE DU Le prochain président des Etats-Unis, jouissant d'une réputation méritée de "perdant". Vice-président de…

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Paying for the Posters State to finance 1969 general elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 February 1969 · page 10

Is Israel becoming more or less democratic? In this year’s general elections, the State is to defray the parties’ campaign costs? This surely is something unheard of in any other Western democracy. The proposal has now been…

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Rumanian Chief Rabbi to stand for parliament

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 February 1969 · page 9

Bucharest. — Dr. Moses Rosen, the Chief Rabbi of Rumania, is a candidate in one of the Bucharest…

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Executive Candidates State Their Programs

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 February 1969 · page 11

The NSW Board of Deputies will elect an executive of five and chairmen for eight committees. The positions for president, vice-president and honorary treasurer will be contested. The following statements, from candidates for the positions, give an insight into…

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Parliament or streets, says Mullen

Tribune · Wednesday 19 February 1969 · page 1

SYDNEY: Just released from Long Bay jail, conscription non-complier Geoffrey Mullen, 21, (left) is welcomed by demonstrators in Martin…

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F 111 -- Election Loser?

Tribune · Wednesday 26 February 1969 · page 2

THE Liberals won the 1963 election with their pre-poll announcement of the purchase of F-lll swing-wing bombers from the United States. Now,…

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Lib. candidate gives Bury low-down on N.S. non-compliers

Tribune · Wednesday 26 February 1969 · page 12

WOLLONGONG: An endorsed Liberal Party federal election candidate has been caught in the act of secretly passing information to the Minister for Labor and National Service on the campaign being waged here by three young non-compliers with National Service…

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Candidate for Fed. elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 March 1969 · page 9

A young Jewish man has been endorsed as an Australian Labor Party candidate in the Federal elections at the end of…

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53% des etudiants ont participe aux elections

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 28 March 1969 · page 1

Importance inattendue de la participation udiante aux élections universitaires. Sucs important sont les points sur lesquels ont été…

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Undergraduate Rep. elections soon

Tharunka · Tuesday 1 April 1969 · page 17

The Registrar, Mr. GX. Macauley, has called for nominations for the position of Undergraduate Representative on University Council. The Undergraduate Representative is elected every…

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Jewish Candidate Asked to Withdraw

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 April 1969 · page 4

New York. Whenever a Jew stands for a prominent office in America there are other Jews who rush to warn…

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Students Union By= Election

Tharunka · Tuesday 15 April 1969 · page 6

The results of the recent by-election for the Students’ Union Council have been…

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Nominations Called for Union Board Elections

Tharunka · Tuesday 15 April 1969 · page 7

Nominations have been called for the election of nine representatives of ordinary members of the University Union to the Board of Management. The election will be by…

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STATES of the NATION Elections coming up -- so the cops laid off

Tribune · Wednesday 23 April 1969 · page 4

ABOUT 600 BRISBANE workers and students joined in the recent protest forum against the…

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Là Presidence: Election Le 1er Juin Connaissance Définitive Des Candidats Le 13 MAI Soutien inconditionnel [?]our M. G. Pompidou devant une gauche en désarroi. COMMENTAIRES. M. Couve De Murville

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 9 May 1969 · page 1

C'est bien entendu avec une profonde tesse que j'ai appris le résultat du vote, peuple français, dans sa majorité, s'est ononcé contre les réformes qui lui étaient…

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world development week is coming at a time when the government, in an election year, is sensitive to the terrific problems of development

Tharunka · Tuesday 13 May 1969 · page 6

It is almost a truism to say of the world today that the gap is widening between the have and have-not nations. The reasons are many and varied. In some ways, it is predominantly an economic problem — a question of possession and distribution of resources — to which there are basically economic solutions. However the economic…

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Union Election Error

Tharunka · Tuesday 13 May 1969 · page 1

Due to a clerical error in the compilation of the names of the 87 candidates for the Union Board of Management elections the original…

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Les Elections a La Presidence Les Candidats Un Deuxieme Tourparait Inevitable

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 16 May 1969 · page 1

À VEC la confirmation de la can-* de de…

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Candidate in Canberra

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 3

CANBERRA: Mr. Don McHugh, well known Canberra trade union official, has been nominated by the…

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Tories back in Qld. election, but 6% loss in vote

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1969 · page 12

BRISBANE: Predictably, and largely because of the rigging of the electorate -- with country votes worth up to three times the votes in the main centres of population -- Queensland's Country-Liberal Government was returned to power in last Saturday's State election…

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