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Politics & elections, 1988

112 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 6

Le Result at Des Elections Regionales

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 13 May 1988 · page 16

En dépit de la non-participation du FLNKS et de l'impossibilité pour certains Mélanésiens loyalistes de pouvoir dans leurs tribus faute de bureau…

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Le Mode D’election Du President De La Republique

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 13 May 1988 · page 6

Beaucoup d'Australiens ignorent encore le processus, extrêmement simple, de l'élection du Président de la République française. L'un d'eux nous…

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Election year fears Dvoran Getzler talks to Speaker Shlomo Hillel

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 13 May 1988 · page 5

KNESSET Speaker Shlomo Hillel “a democrat in every fibre of my being” - is a worried man as he contemplates the all too fragile…

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Brief Amwu elections

Tribune · Wednesday 25 May 1988 · page 4

George Campbell, formerly assistant national secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, was declared elected yesterday as…

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Croissants Et Elections

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 10 June 1988 · page 10

Que 120 Français et Australiens aient envahi la Maison de France à Canberra dès 7 heures du matin, le lundi 9 mai, était pour le moins inhabituel. Un assaut…

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Likud and Labour scramble for U.S. dollar Wolf Blitzer, New York, on the campaigns for election funds

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 June 1988 · page 7

PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Shamir walked into the United Nations General Assembly last week surrounded by a large entourage of Israeli diplomats and political aides. Among…

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The Choice at Election Time

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 June 1988 · page 23

Sir, - Before electioneering for the next government begins, with its accompanying demagoguery and innuendoes, it may be appropriate for…

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French elections -- isolating the NF

Tribune · Wednesday 22 June 1988 · page 5

Following the failure of the Socialist Party to win an absolute majority in the recent National Assembly elections in France, Prime Minister…

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Clerks' reform group wins election in Victoria

Tribune · Wednesday 29 June 1988 · page 4

A progressive reform group has made a clean sweep of positions in elections concluded last week in the Federated Clerks Union (FCU) Victorian branch. The historic victory, with the reform group winning all seven executive positions (including full-time officials) and six…

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Liberals choose candidates

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 June 1988 · page 3

ILL AVIV. — The Liberal Party, partners of Herut in the Likud Party, last week elected members to stand on its Knesset list after its big…

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NSW Upper House election review

Tribune · Wednesday 6 July 1988 · page 11

Since the March '88 elections, many people ' who supported the Community Independents are asking why the Dunphy and NDP groups failed to give us their preferences…

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La Chaim election

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 July 1988 · page 24

ANNE DRYEN was re-elected president of the Great Synagogue’s senior citizens group La…

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Les Elections Legislatives En France Trois Nouvelles Mesures De Liberation Du Controle Des Changes

Le Courrier Australien · Sunday 10 July 1988 · page 7

Le ministre de l'Economie et des Finances, M. Pierre Bérégovoy, a pris en début juin trois nouvelles mesures d'assouplissement du contrôle des changes,…

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BRIEF Wharfie election results

Tribune · Wednesday 13 July 1988 · page 4

Candidates from the Socialist Party (SPA) made major gains in the Sydney branch elections of the Waterside Workers Federation…

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SPOTLIGHT Sephardi voters will outnumber Ashkenazim for the first time in this year’s elections. On the facing page, profiles of two budding politicians from immigrant communities. The ethnic factor

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 July 1988 · page 12

POLITICS can be a cruel business. As many candidates can attest, losing can bring heartbreak, but running assures heartburn as they…

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BRIEFS Wharfies elections

Tribune · Wednesday 20 July 1988 · page 4

West Australia: In recent Waterside Workers Federation elections Vic Slater was elected to represent the Fremantle branch at the union's…

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Labor has new look for next Israeli election

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 July 1988 · page 6

JERUSALEM: Shimon Peres can be justifiably proud of the exemplary manner in which his party democratically selected its Knesset list at Labor’s Central…

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ELECTIONS 1988 / Michal Yudelman The intifada as an issue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 29 July 1988 · page 3

LIBERAL PARTY leader Yitzhak Moda’i said that a Likud government could end the intifada within a week of coming to power. “A defence minister (labour's Yitzhak Rabin) who says the solution (to the unrest in the territories) is political cannot take the military measures which will…

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Who’s Pro-arab in Uk Parliament?

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1988 · page 6

LONDON: The Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign Office Minister of State David Mellor, and…

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Melbourne News Jewish candidates but no ‘Jewish issues’ in local council elections

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1988 · page 14

AT LEAST five Jewish candidates are contesting seats in the local government elections on Saturday, August 6. Two others —…

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