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Politics & elections, 1985

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Union Elections Left wins meatworks ballot

Tribune · Wednesday 11 September 1985 · page 4

BRISBANE: Leftwing forces have retained control of the Queensland branch of the Meatworkers Union (AMIEU)…

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Elections President

Tharunka · Monday 30 September 1985 · page 21

Cut away all the electoral rhetoric and what remains is a choice between ‘party’ politicians and student leaders. The 1980’ s has seen the demise of the UNSW Students’ Union. The…

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News SU Elections . . .Who’ll Win?

Tharunka · Monday 30 September 1985 · page 5

Roll up, roll up. The Bi-annual Students’ Union election show is about to begin. Based on the pattern of previous…

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KANAKY Election result provides base for independence

Tribune · Wednesday 2 October 1985 · page 3

The FLNKS (Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front) won control over three of the four regions in last Sunday's elections in Kanaky (New Caledonia). The result means that all of the country, except Noumea and…

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Union Elections Progressive team wins in QATIS

Tribune · Wednesday 2 October 1985 · page 5

BRISBANE: Despite a concerted effort, National Civic Council (NCC) forces have failed to dislodge the progressive…

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Lawn Bowls Elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 October 1985 · page 23

Percy Weinstein has been re-elected Maccabi Lawn Bowls Guild president…

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Sexism runs riot in WA parliament

Tribune · Wednesday 9 October 1985 · page 15

PERTH: Sexism ran riot in the Liberal Party last week when 2 i senior Liberal parliamentarians lashed out against women's and…

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Students' Union Election Results

Tharunka · Monday 14 October 1985 · page 8

The SU elections are over and not much has changed. Last years election shocked and surprised many people. Newcomers from Engineering (Peter Lynch, Andrew Bone, and Get Smart) were elected to the positions of President, Secretary/Treasurer, and…

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Fucken Elections How Would You Pronounce NSWEAN?

Tharunka · Monday 14 October 1985 · page 8

If the ALP or the Independent Left win a majority on Council next May, every student on this campus have to learn how to pronounce…

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ELECTIONS Students arrested

Tribune · Wednesday 16 October 1985 · page 3

SYDNEY: Thirty-five students were arrested and charged in Sydney last week following a demonstration against the…

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ELECTIONS Grand prix election in South Australia

Tribune · Wednesday 16 October 1985 · page 2

The Bannon ALP government in South Australia must call elections before March '86 and all indicators suggest that there…

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Union Elections It a alleges Easson interfering

Tribune · Wednesday 30 October 1985 · page 4

SYDNEY: Last week's meeting of the NSW Labor Council saw allegations emerge of interference by…

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Elections Ncc interferes in ITA elections

Tribune · Wednesday 6 November 1985 · page 5

SYDNEY: Elections in the NSW Independent Teachers Association (ITA) are arousing interest in many…

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Elections Legislatives

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 November 1985 · page 1

Le Président de la République, qui achevait, mardi 8 octobre, son déplacement en Bretagne, a affirmé eu l'émission de FR 3-Bretagne,…

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ELECTIONS Cliffhanger in S. Australia

Tribune · Wednesday 13 November 1985 · page 2

ADELAIDE: While the exhaust fumes were swirling down Adelaide's Grand Prix streets, John Bannon's opinion poll…

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U.S. Zionists issue ultimatum on elections for congress

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 November 1985 · page 7

American Zionists declared last week that they would not hold elections in the U.S. for delegates to the next Zionist…

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ELECTIONS Unions fight SA Libs plan

Tribune · Wednesday 27 November 1985 · page 3

Latest opinion polls indicate that support for the ALP is running at 53% while support for the Liberals is only 37% in the…

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ELECTIONS ITA's independence endorsed

Tribune · Wednesday 27 November 1985 · page 5

Members of the NSW Independent Teachers Association (ITA) have voted in support of the union's independence and…

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ELECTIONS Progressives returned in Qld FCU

Tribune · Wednesday 27 November 1985 · page 4

Progressive forces have retained control of the Queensland branch of the Federated Clerks Union (FCU)…

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Elections Wa constitutional crisis

Tribune · Wednesday 27 November 1985 · page 3

The president of the WA Legislative Council, Liberal Clive Griffiths, last week ruled that the council had the power to…

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