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Politics & elections, 1974

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Election Analysis

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 January 1974 · page 12

THE ISRAELI voter has done it again. After all the talk of electoral changes of landslide proportions,…

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Cpa Senate Election Plan

Tribune · Tuesday 19 February 1974 · page 12

Sydney: The CPA Sydney District Committee last Sunday agreed on the political framework of its Senate campaign. The Committee stated that "the main aim of the…

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British Elections won't solve crisis

Tribune · Tuesday 19 February 1974 · page 9

The results of the British elections on February 28 remain still very much in doubt. Opinion polls - notoriously unreliable in Britain, as exemplified by the victory of the…

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UK elections

Tribune · Tuesday 26 February 1974 · page 3

The British elections to be held this Thursday, (February 28) are the most crucial held for many years in that country. Many years ago, the sun set on the British Empire. But…

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Left Candidates in Png Election

Tribune · Tuesday 5 March 1974 · page 9

PORT MORESBY: Mr. Laki Ayawa, president of the Social Workers' Party of Papua-New Guinea, and a prominent trade unionist, is standing as a candidate in Ward 7 in the Port…

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British elections: win for miners, struggle ahead

Tribune · Tuesday 5 March 1974 · page 9

The British elections resolved nothing. A minority government resting on the goodwill of the Liberals will attempt to govern for a few months while the major parties juggle…

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Uk Elections ‘Jewish Vote’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 March 1974 · page 1

LONDON: Jewish voters in England were told it is their right to express their legitimate interest in at least two aspects of last week's elections. One concerned the presence of…

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British Communists' Election Campaign

Tribune · Tuesday 12 March 1974 · page 9

The highlight of the campaign of the 43 Communist Party candidates in the recent British general elections was that of Jimmy Reid, leading shop steward in…

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Kindergarten Elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 March 1974 · page 19

Mrs B. Pryer, of North Bondi, was elected president of the Yeshiva Kindergarten Mothers’ Association, at the…

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UK elections

Tribune · Tuesday 19 March 1974 · page 9

Jimmy Reid, the popular shop steward leader in the Upper Clydeside Shipyard (UCS) work-in and Communist Party candidate for Central Dunbartonshire in…

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Jewish Vote Showed in British Election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 March 1974 · page 15

ALTHOUGH Britain’s new House of Commons contains the record number of 45 Jewish M.P.s, offcially there is no “Jewish vote”…

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Holroyd Election

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 2 April 1974 · page 5

A by-election will be held in Holroyd to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ald. F. S…

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Election Rave Policy Statement, Arts By-election

Tharunka · Wednesday 10 April 1974 · page 16

It would seem that if I am the only candidate in this By-Election who could be bothered writing out a policy statement for Tharunka, then I should virtually win by…

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Crucial Election Campaign

Tribune · Tuesday 16 April 1974 · page 3

Present indications are that the election result will be close in both the House of Representatives and Senate. A few country seats may swing against the Government, which could retain or even…

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Cpa Candidate in Perth

Tribune · Tuesday 30 April 1974 · page 2

"Radical changes in education and preservation of the environment will be among the issues I will be emphasising in the election campaign," Paul Marsh told…

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Election Coverage Women and Land Rights

Tribune · Tuesday 30 April 1974 · page 2

Pat Miller, NSW communist Senate candidate who is an Aboriginal activist and law student commented this week to Tribune on the government's…

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France’s Presidential Elections Foreign Policy and the Candidates

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 1 May 1974 · page 6

EARLY in the French Presidential election campaign foreign policy was already playing an important part in the platforms of the candidates. The three main candidates: M…

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LE 18 MAI Les elections ausraliennes

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 1 May 1974 · page 1

Plusieurs crises politiques au cours des derniers mois ont finalement abouti à la dissolution du parlement australien: la Chambre des Représentants…

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Poher Fait Surveiller Les Elections

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 1 May 1974 · page 3

Le Conseil Constitutionnel a désigné 48 de veiller à la régularité des opérations électorales. Parmi ceux-ci…

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Students and the Elections

Tharunka · Wednesday 1 May 1974 · page 1

For all but a few members of our generation of students, the last sixteen months have been novel. In December, 1972, for the first time in most student's lives, a Labor Government took office in Canberra…

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