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Politics & elections, 1978

82 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 5

Presidential Candidates Lindsay Savage

Tharunka · Monday 9 October 1978 · page 14

The Students Union has been traditionally composed of two separate functions: political representation of the students to the administration and other…

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Elections

Tharunka · Monday 9 October 1978 · page 14

The annual Students Union election is on for the Presidency, the most important election held on campus over the entire year…

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Petitions at Parliament

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 October 1978 · page 5

Victorian politicians on both sides of the House and Senate have presented petitions at Federal…

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Latest CPA election figures

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1978 · page 2

The Communist Party has polled 71,735 votes for the NSW Upper House and a total of 6,142 in the five Assembly electorates it contested with counting not yet…

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Call for freedom of tourists in Moscow Questions in Parliament

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 October 1978 · page 3

CANBERRA: The Federal Government was last week called on to ensure the liberty and freedom of movement of Australian visitors to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. The subject was raised in…

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Superceding Parliament

Tharunka · Monday 23 October 1978 · page 2

Dear Eds, In a letter entitled Seduced by the Bourgeois a person claiming to represent marxism has quite innocently…

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Election Report

Tharunka · Monday 23 October 1978 · page 4

The votes were counted immediately after the close of balloting on Friday 13 October, in the presence of scrutineers The counting of all three ballots was…

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L’election De Jean-paul Ii

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 1 November 1978 · page 2

PARIS. — L'élection du cardinal Karol Wojtyla évidemment l'événement International que tous les journaux, quelles…

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Election for Clothing Union

Tribune · Wednesday 1 November 1978 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Elections will be held for the first time in many years in the…

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Rank and File Ironworkers Contest Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 15 November 1978 · page 4

SYDNEY: Ironworkers Union (FIA) national national secretary Laurie Short in 1974 called on all…

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National Front in Q’land Elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 16 November 1978 · page 3

The extreme right-wing National Front will undergo its first electoral test this month at a Queensland State byelection. The Front chose…

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US election results mixed bag for Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 November 1978 · page 9

WASHINGTON: Israel lost several close friends during last week’s elections in the US Senate and House of Representatives, but also won several new ones. “It’s a mixed bag,” one…

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Youth Scene Jutopia for Jnf Queen Candidate

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 November 1978 · page 25

Jutopia will hold a special dance on December 2 with proceeds going to WIZO’s JNF Sueen candidate, Debbie Kruger. The dance will he held in the Victor Smith Youth…

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Young candidate to stir council

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 November 1978 · page 6

A Jewish solicitor is attempting to become the only Labor alderman on the Woollahra Municipal Council in a byelection next month…

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La C.E.E. va financer une campagne d’information sur les elections au Parlement europeen

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 1 December 1978 · page 4

La Commission de Bruxelles et Parlement conjointement d'environ 50 millions francs pour mener, en 1979,…

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Trades Hall Officials Face Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 6 December 1978 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Trades Hall Council (THC) secretary Ken Stone and full-time officials face elections next June following last week's rule change supported by left and…

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Sherwood By-election

Tribune · Wednesday 6 December 1978 · page 12

The by-election in the outer metropolitan seat of Sherwood was a resounding defeat for the ruling National Party and a severe rebuff to Bjelke-Petersen's dictatorial politics…

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Troy Is Our Man in Parliament — Upw

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 December 1978 · page 3

The Australian spokesman for the United Palestinian Workers, Nabil Kaddoumi, interviewed by a Trotskyite newspaper in England, described Dr John Troy as his organisation’s man in Parliament. His statement was made…

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Bose Show Helps Jnf Candidate

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 December 1978 · page 14

Sales from Joe Rose’s latest exhibition at the Holds worth Galleries will support JNF Queen…

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Sen. Sibraa Wants Syrian Withdrawal Canberra: The Australian Government was asked to demand the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, by a Labor Senator in Federal Parliament recently

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 7 December 1978 · page 3

The request by Senator Kerry Sibraa of NSW will be referred to the Minister for Foreign Affairs,…

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