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Politics & elections, 1970

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Meet the Candidates

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 October 1970 · page 21

Maggie is petite and dark, looks good in ‘midis’ and loves way-out clothes. The black eyelashes fringing her…

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Fred Paterson's Way For the people's causes in court, Parliament & on the picket lines

Tribune · Wednesday 28 October 1970 · page 8

A QUEENSLAND carter's son, brother of two watersiders, brilliant student, World War I returned…

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The Middle East in Parliament Will the Tories Really Be Different?

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 October 1970 · page 10

As the new Parliamentary session approaches, it is possible to analyse the new balance of forces at Westminster in relation to the Middle East crisis. In the Labour Party clearly…

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Manly Election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 October 1970 · page 15

Mr. Morry Swerdlin was reelected president at the annual general meeting of the Manly-Warringah Jewish…

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US Candidates woo Jewish vote

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 October 1970 · page 11

Close Race Between Rockefeller And Goldberg NEW YORK: Election day in America is not far away nov 35 State governorships, 36 Senate seats and all 4 Representatives…

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Wide Angle the Senate Election & the Labor Line

Tribune · Wednesday 4 November 1970 · page 3

Whatever the results of the Senate election, no one expects any great change in Australian society or…

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People, Politics, Parliament, Power

Tribune · Wednesday 11 November 1970 · page 8

IN theory, elections in a capitalist democracy are held to decide who is to govern the country, the shape of national policies, and who holds power. According to the theory, an election campaign is a great national debate on policies, in which all parties tell the electorate what they are going to do, and why. In fact, elections don't really decide these issues…

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making SENSE of the SENATE election Vietnam Work

Tribune · Wednesday 11 November 1970 · page 5

The Senate election cannot itself solve anything ... but a vote against the Gorton Government in this poll, followed by rising mass pressure by the Australian people, can hasten the…

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The Senate Election: What it is Major Issues --Who Stands Where How It Works

Tribune · Wednesday 11 November 1970 · page 6

AUSTRALIANS go to the polls on November 21 to elect 32 new Senators -- six each in New South Wales and Victoria and five in each of the other four States. The higher number in NSW and Victoria is due to the deaths…

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The Birth of A Parliament

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 November 1970 · page 10

The Jewish Community’s Elected Assembly’s first session. By Mr Samuel Sager, Editor of the Index to the Knesset Records and the Speaker’s…

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Guildford Rangers elections

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 17 November 1970 · page 4

Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Guildford Rangers Soccer and Recreation Club, on…

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Nixon scare campaign fails but Danger Signals in U.S. Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 18 November 1970 · page 9

A LEADER of the American anti-war group, Women's Strike for Peace, Bella Abzug, was elected…

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Striking meatworkers march on Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 25 November 1970 · page 10

PERTH: A thousand striking meatworkers, including many women, last week marched on Parliament House to put the heat on Agriculture Minister Nalder, who is responsible for Midland and Robb Jetty Abattoirs, the major employers. Though Mr. Nalder was in…

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Study Group Elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 November 1970 · page 15

The Adult Jewish Study and Discussion Group has re-elected Marie Pritchard as its chairman…

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Incredible Feat of A.L.P. in Election Letters to the Editor

Tribune · Wednesday 2 December 1970 · page 11

ONCE again the ALP, while facing fearful odds, has succeeded in snatching defeat from the…

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CPA not in elections

Tribune · Wednesday 2 December 1970 · page 11

ENGELS rated Marxist participation in bourgeois democratic elections as a "weapon second to none" to…

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Bus Union Election

Tribune · Wednesday 2 December 1970 · page 10

SYDNEY: Leading officials in the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association have been reelected unopposed. These include Mr. P. M. Ryan as general president and…

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Israel Notebook a Crucial Election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 December 1970 · page 11

HAIFA: Who will be Prime Minister of Israel following the national elections in the fall of 1973? A poll to be held during the next few days may determine the answer to that question…

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W. Brown and elections

Tribune · Wednesday 16 December 1970 · page 11

AS ONE who has stood or participated in many election campaigns as a Communist over the last two decades, I…

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Les Elections Municipales

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 25 December 1970 · page 1

Les prochaines élactioni municipales an France sont fixée» au 14 at au 21 mars 1971, a confirmé M. Léo Hamon k l'issue Conseil des ministras du 9 décambra…

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