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Politics & elections, 1980

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Union Board of Management Elections

Tharunka · Monday 28 April 1980 · page 3

Last year the deplorable state of the University Union caused students to form S.C.U.M. (Student Control of Union Management). The aim was to fight…

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Municipal Elections Will Disadvantage Community

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 May 1980 · page 3

Special provisions in the Local Government Act may have to be used by Sydney municipalities to allow Jewish residents to vote in this year’s council elections. The elections, held every…

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NT elections

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1980 · page 7

Darwin: Northern Territory voters will go to the polls on June 7 for the first time since self-government in July 1978. The ruling Country…

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Japanese Elections

Tribune · Wednesday 21 May 1980 · page 6

JAPAN will face new elections shortly following the defeat of the Ohira government last Friday…

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Rightists gear up to election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 May 1980 · page 3

A warning that the extreme rightist movement the National Alliance is gearing up to contest the next Federal election was given in Federal Parliament recently by…

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Elections in Peru

Tribune · Wednesday 28 May 1980 · page 6

Peru: Pro-US former president Belaunde Terry won the presidential elections last week. His party won 26 seats in the 60-seat…

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Alp Would Recognise Plo —Parliament is told

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1980 · page 3

A Labour Government in Australia would “without question” grant diplomatic status to the PLO, Jack Birney MP (Phillip) claimed in Federal Parliament last week…

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Hartley to seek Senate election

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1980 · page 3

Victorian ALP pro-Arab extremist, Bill Hartley, seems set for Senate pre-selection for the Federal election after…

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Interstate Maccabi Elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 May 1980 · page 20

ADELAIDE: Les Mann was recently elected president of South Australian Maccabi. Joe Ketetz was named…

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France, Israel form parliament group

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1980 · page 8

JERUSALEM: France and Israel will form a joint parliamentary association, Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Berman and French Senate President Alain Poher decided at a recent meeting in the Knesset. The joint association, to…

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Too late to change date for council elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 June 1980 · page 3

It is too late to change the date for the Local Government elections which this year clash with Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement), Board of Deputies president, Robert Goot said last week. The elections will take…

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State Election

Tharunka · Tuesday 10 June 1980 · page 2

Last Saturday, the first State election was held in the Northern Territory. Officials of the Australian Marijuana Party (Northern Territory Branch) said…

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Govt. Will Change Elections Date But Not for This Year

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 June 1980 · page 3

The State Government will change the Local Government Act to ensure that they never again clash with Yom Kippur, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Sydney D. Einfeld MP, said on Friday. Speaking on the ABC…

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CPA election candidates

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1980 · page 8

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) has named eight candidates to contest the next federal election: five in NSW, two in Victoria and one in South Australia. In Victoria, two union officials will stand: Roger Wilson…

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Japan's Election

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1980 · page 6

This is part of the crowd at an "indignation meeting" for unemployed people during the Japanese election campaign. The conservative Liberal-Democratic Party won its…

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La France Politique Un an Avant Les Elections Presidentielles

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 1 July 1980 · page 2

M. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dirige la France depuis six ans exactement. Président de la République succédant au Président Georges Pompidou mandat à…

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Victorian THC election Behind the Left's Defeat

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1980 · page 16

The recent Trades Hall Council executive election was a serious defeat. Only two of the eighteen executive members are now of the Left. Two years ago a leftcentre team held a 10-8 majority…

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Nsw Govt Can Move Local Election Date

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 July 1980 · page 2

The State Government has wrongly advised leaders of the Jewish community that it is too late to change the date of the Local Government elections which this year clash with Yom Kippur, Rosemary Foot MP (Vaucluse) said this week…

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Minister and Deputies to meet on Council election date

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 10 July 1980 · page 3

Members of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies will meet with the Minister for Local Government, Harry Jensen, on Friday in an attempt to have the date of the annual Local Government elections…

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Parliament Group Will Examine M.e. Situation

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 July 1980 · page 5

A Joint Parliamentary Sub-committee is at present gathering information for a report to Federal Parliament on the Middle East. The sub-committee, which was set up in November, is under the auspices of the Joint Committee of Foreign…

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