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Politics & elections, 1976

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The Mailbag Tribune welcomes letters from readers while requesting that they be kept to 300-350 words. Letters exceeding this length may be cut. Two Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 21 January 1976 · page 11

Two days before the Australian general election and in a similar situation, the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada was defeated at the polls in the province of British Columbia…

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Cpa Election Success

Tribune · Wednesday 21 January 1976 · page 3

The five Communist Party candidates who contested the December elections polled a total of 9,385 votes. This was…

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Nobel candidate to visit Sydney

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 January 1976 · page 3

A former Soviet candidate for the Nobel Prize, now living in Israel, will give a series of lectures in Australia. He is Professor Herman Branover, who will arrive…

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Building Workers Go to Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 25 February 1976 · page 4

ADELAIDE: Three hundred building workers from five building unions crowded the steps of Parliament House…

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Mother's Club elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 February 1976 · page 23

Mrs V. Eichel and Mrs V. Farkas were elected co-presidents of the Yeshiva Kindergarten Mothers’ Club at the recent annual general meeting. Other members of the executive are Mrs M Waks…

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Media wages campaign of silence Election a Flop

Tribune · Wednesday 3 March 1976 · page 12

Melbourne: As alleged ALP deals in Arab money pushed Malcolm Fraser's unpopular economic measures off the front pages of the newspapers last…

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School funding an election issue

Tribune · Wednesday 3 March 1976 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Funding for schools is quickly shaping into one of the substantive issues of the Victorian State…

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Parliament Members Probe Into Affair

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 4 March 1976 · page 3

Mr Jack Birney, the new Liberal member for Phillip in Federal Parliament last week expressed deep concern over allegations of foreign money being accepted by any political party in Australia. “I was greatly perturbed…

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Parliament House visit

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 16 March 1976 · page 5

Nine aldermen and their wives recently inspected Parliament House in Macquarie Street as guests off the Deputy Leader off the Opposition, Mr Ferguson, the State Member…

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Vietnam Election (Reuter) Bangkok 17/3/76

Tharunka · Wednesday 31 March 1976 · page 14

Vietnam - In North and South Vietnam, voters will choose representatives to a common National Assembly to pave…

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Who's who in State elections Ferguson tips himself

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 13 April 1976 · page 5

Member for Merry [?]ds, Mr Jack Fergu[?] has tipped himself [?] Deputy Premier of…

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Parliament visit

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 April 1976 · page 23

Forty senior pupils from the Great Synagogue Hebrew School and Teenage Study Centre spent part of a Sunday morning recently at Parliament House…

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Planet News 3rd bus stop out from kensington Downtown Campus ban on election posters

Tharunka · Wednesday 21 April 1976 · page 6

At a joint press conference held on Wednesday March 14th, the Communist Party of Australia, the Socialist Party of Australia and the…

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limbering up for a bread & jam election

Tharunka · Wednesday 21 April 1976 · page 1

plus .. way out west in the antipodes…

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Inter National News Spinola's plot boosts left hopes in election

Tribune · Wednesday 21 April 1976 · page 9

LISBON: Former President Spinola's purchase of thousands of guns and millions of rounds of ammunition may boost the left's…

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Candidate for "Alternative"

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 April 1976 · page 6

A Jewish candidate of Polish extraction is. standing for election as an Independent in next month's NSW State elections. He is Mr Alexander Nash…

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Free elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 April 1976 · page 2

What better proof could be found for the freedom of Arabs living on the West Bank, than the results of last week’s municipal elections? The fact that Palestinian nationalists gained…

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New wage tax claim Tax Issue Will Decide Election, Says Ferguson

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 27 April 1976 · page 1

State Member for Merrylands and Deputy Leader of the NSW Parliamentary Labor Party, Mr J. Ferguson believes the income tax issue will be the deciding factor in Saturday's…

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Teachers and the (dreaded) State Election. - Peter West

Tharunka · Wednesday 28 April 1976 · page 5

The State election is due oh 1st May, although scarcely anyone seems aware of it. Perhaps after all the elections Australians have suffered…

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"Willis must go!" say CPA candidates

Tribune · Wednesday 28 April 1976 · page 2

SYDNEY: "Defeat of the Willis government would be a blow against Fraser and the ruling class." This is the…

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