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Sydney · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1979

73 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4

CPA stands in local election

Tribune · Wednesday 4 July 1979 · page 11

SYDNEY: John McDade, Communist Party candidate in Botany Council's Ulm ward…

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Left gains in wharfies elections

Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1979 · page 3

Recent Waterside Workers Federation elections have led to significant changes. As Tribune reported last week a balanced representative team of Communist Party,…

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Italian Communists and the Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1979 · page 5

Ennio Polito, who represented the Italian Communist Party (PCI) at the CPA's recent Congress, has worked on the PCI daily L'Unita since 1947. He became involved in anti-fascist…

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Board Elections at End of Year

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 August 1979 · page 7

General franchise members of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies will go to the polls in either October or November this year. This was announced at…

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Local election

Tribune · Wednesday 8 August 1979 · page 6

Melbourne: "Make Clifton Ward a Red Ward" is the slogan of Communist candidate Geoff Evans, a 29-year old laborer, in the…

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Zimbabwe After the Phoney Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 8 August 1979 · page 12

Bishop Muzorewa's new Zimbabwe government wants recognition of its claim to represent the Black population. How true is this claim? Muzorewa's isn't a new government at all, it's still the same…

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CPA candidate polls 17%

Tribune · Wednesday 15 August 1979 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Communist candidate Geoff Evans polled 17 per cent of the formal vote in the Fitzroy…

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Gays Picket Parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 29 August 1979 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Gay Solidarity Group picketed Parliament House this week to protest against…

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SA Labor election policies

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1979 · page 6

The ALP opened its state election campaign with Premier Corcoran stressing consensus and promising cash incentives for firms taking on additional workers or planning new investments…

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Ronald Reagan U.s. Presidential Candidate? “Israelis Last M. East Asset” Seeking Jewish Voters

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 September 1979 · page 11

WASHINGTON: Former California governor Ronald Reagan last week described Israel as “perhaps the only remaining strategic asset” which the US has left in the Middle East…

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Sa Election: "We didn't fight"

Tribune · Wednesday 19 September 1979 · page 3

An era of social reform lasting nearly ten years ended this week with the defeat of the South Australian Labor government. Mick Young, federal ALP spokesperson for employment…

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Shoppies' elections

Tribune · Wednesday 19 September 1979 · page 5

SYDNEY: Elections currently being held will determine who will lead the shop assistants' union. For the last two years a di smite has raged in the retail…

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Candidate Works to Promote Jnf’s Cause

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 27 September 1979 · page 18

The role of the queen candidate should be to bring people closer to the work done by the Jewish National Fund, Jane Rosengarten believes. Children watch their…

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Candidate Disqualified -Violence threatened

Tharunka · Monday 1 October 1979 · page 3

In a surprise move prior to the coming Students' Union election the nomination of a canidate for both the positions of President and Secretary/Treasurer was declared invalid by the Returning Officer, Newman-Dog-face-Harris. in an emotional and tension-laden scene where the candidate Bruce-Waverley-Outpatients-Very-Sillyrad…

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S.u. Election Po President

Tharunka · Monday 1 October 1979 · page 8

Applied Science III Applied Science Rep 77-79 AUS Council Delegate 7 8,7 9 Education Vice President, 1979…

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Japanese Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 3 October 1979 · page 7

JAPAN: The Japanese Communist Party is campaigning strongly for next weekend's general election. The photo shows part of the 40,000 strong crowd at the JCP's largest ever rally in Tokyo on September 1. JCP leader Kenji…

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Law Faculty Election

Tharunka · Monday 8 October 1979 · page 6

As a student, over the past three years, I am able to appreciate the problems, the frustrations and the joys of students in the law faculty. It is my belief that the student…

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SA election defeat

Tribune · Wednesday 10 October 1979 · page 14

I felt Tony Evans' article in Tribune on the SA election, 19.9.79, fell short of an accurate assessment of South Australia's…

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Indian left unites for election

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1979 · page 7

INDIA: A wide range of left, democratic and secular parties have united in a committee to plan a joint strategy for the forthcoming general elections. The parties involved in the…

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Three Young Lawyers to Contest Board Election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 October 1979 · page 4

A group of three young lawyers will try to rejuvenate the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies over the next two years if they are successful in next month's general franchise elections…

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