FEDERAL ELECTIONS
NATIONALISTS' STRENGTH IN SENATE. Press Association—By Telesraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. MELBOURNE, December 25. Mr Hughes, in returning thanks at Bendigo on the formal declaration of his election, said that the Nationalist victory meant defeat for disloyalty, direct action, Bolshevism, the "go-slow" policy, and all that was mean, paltry, and selfish in their midst, but not the defeat of the Labor cause, which was as sacred as ever to those who had fought for it. He clamed that- tho Nationalists have a clear majority of their own in the new Parliament, and declared that the Nationalist clean sweep of the Senate was too appalling to mention. SYDNEY, December 25. With the exception of Tasmania—where the count so far as it is complete indicates that the Nationalists have wen all the seats in both House and Senate—election returns still leave the final decision of several seats dependent upon small uncounted votes and the preferential allocation. The referenda votes aro now in the vicinity of 1,000,000. New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania are against both proposals; and Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia are in favor of both proposals; but the total vote shows a fairly solid majority against, with* an increasing tendency.
FEDERAL ELECTIONS
Evening Star, Issue 17234, 26 December 1919, Page 4
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