• A referendum concerning the closing hour for licensed premises and registered clubs was put to voters in New South Wales on 13 November 1954. Six o'clock...
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  • until it introduced 8 o'clock closing in 1923. The question of closing hours was put to New South Wales voters in a referendum held on 10 June 1916. The question...
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  • the 6:00 pm closing time. Six o'clock closing was introduced in New South Wales during the First World War following the 1916 referendum. The 1916 vote...
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    second referendum held in 1954 narrowly passed, and closing hours were extended to 10 pm in New South Wales in the following year. 10 pm closing was restored...
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  • A referendum concerning introducing prohibition in New South Wales was put to voters on 1 September 1928. Six o'clock closing was introduced during the...
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  • A referendum concerning whether hotels should be allowed to trade on Sundays was put to voters in New South Wales on 29 November 1969 but was unsuccessful...
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  • There have been 18 referendums in New South Wales, 8 of which concerned proposals to amend the New South Wales Constitution, half of which concerned the...
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    informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population...
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    situations. In a referendum in 1979, Wales voted against the creation of a Welsh assembly with an 80 per cent majority. In 1997, a second referendum on the same...
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    containing any commitment to the holding of any referendum. It received a second reading in a half-hour long debate in the chamber on 26 October 2012,...
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    specific to Wales. Since World War II, various movements and proposals have advocated different models of Welsh devolution. In 1979, a referendum on devolution...
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  • in Adelaide, the South Australia Police. 1838: Overlanders Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney arrive in Adelaide from New South Wales with 300 head of cattle...
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    The New South Wales Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor,...
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    to meet the debt. In May, the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales was forced to close. The Melbourne Premiers' Conference agreed to cut wages and...
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    of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China...
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    A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014. The referendum question was "Should Scotland...
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    Old Adaminaby and Lake Eucumbene (category Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register)
    reservoir that flooded the town, now at Eucumbene, Snowy Valleys Council, New South Wales, Australia. The town was established in 1830. The reservoir was designed...
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    to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia 2020: Commended, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Indigenous Writer's Prize, for Welcome to...
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    leave, flexible working hours, statutory sick pay and a pension. Same-sex marriage has been legal in England, Scotland, and Wales since 2014, and in Northern...
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    1289 "Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd". South African History Online. Retrieved 9 March 2013. On 5 October 1960 a referendum was held in which White voters were...
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    Cardiff (redirect from Cardiff, Wales)
    Balsom, "The referendum result". James Barry Jones and Denis Balsom, eds: The Road to the National Assembly for Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000...
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    New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria. Although the referendum achieved a majority in all four colonies, the New South Wales referendum...
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    the Malayan Emergency. Crichel Down and the resignation of Thomas Dugdale (1954) Suez Crisis (1956) Vassall affair (1963): civil servant John Vassall, working...
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    Nicola Sturgeon, announced the following day that as a result a new independence referendum was "highly likely". On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom formally...
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    and travelled to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Planned as a less formal tour than the one in 1954, the Queen and Prince...
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    Queen. 26 November: 1966 New Zealand general election, National wins a third term. 1967 Referendum extends hotel closing hours to 10pm. 10 July: Decimal...
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    for Wales and Scotland: the National Assembly for Wales at Cardiff in May, and the Scottish Parliament at Edinburgh in July. On the eve of the new millennium...
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  • Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. The Sydney Morning Herald publishes...
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    or democratic assembly (like in London, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) after a 2004 referendum on North East Assembly failed. This means that England...
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    Robert Askin (category Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly)
    September 1981), was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party. He was...
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