This is just a first and somewhat kludgey attempt to look at frequencies in the titles of items in the Tribune collection.

It was prepared on a bus between Sydney and Canberra so I took a few shortcuts that I’ll need to revisit later on, but as a first peek it’s sort of interesting…

Most frequent words

  • protests (412)
  • day (364)
  • protest (352)
  • march (304)
  • rally (284)
  • demonstration (268)
  • conference (236)
  • workers (232)
  • meeting (212)
  • party (192)
  • women (188)
  • australian (152)
  • uranium (136)
  • may (132)
  • public (128)
  • peace (120)
  • australia (108)
  • demonstrations (96)
  • union (96)
  • hiroshima (88)

Most frequent bigrams

  • day march (136)
  • may day (132)
  • women ‘s (116)
  • protest and (100)
  • of australia (96)
  • party of (92)
  • communist party (88)
  • ’s day (72)
  • labor party (68)
  • australian labor (64)
  • meeting and (64)
  • demonstration and (60)
  • hiroshima day (56)
  • protests and (56)
  • conference and (56)
  • rally and (52)
  • land rights (48)
  • international women (48)
  • peace march (44)
  • public meeting (44)

Most frequent trigrams

  • may day march (92)
  • party of australia (92)
  • communist party of (84)
  • australian labor party (64)
  • women ‘s day (60)
  • international women ‘s (48)
  • council of trade (36)
  • australian council of (36)
  • of trade unions (36)
  • new south wales (32)
  • deaths in custody (28)
  • conference communist party (24)
  • hiroshima day marches (24)
  • ’s day march (24)
  • uranium mobilisation uranium (24)
  • mobilisation uranium mobilisation (24)
  • for nuclear disarmament (20)
  • at australian labor (20)
  • march may day (20)
  • day march may (20)

Most frequent noun phrases

  • day march (44)
  • communist party (20)
  • black deaths (16)
  • public meeting (16)
  • public servants (16)
  • australia history conference communist party (16)
  • international women ‘s day march (12)
  • trade unions conference (12)
  • nuclear disarmament (12)
  • royal prince (12)
  • international women ‘s day (12)
  • gay mardi gras (8)
  • peace rally (8)
  • public service association (8)
  • international peace bureau conference (8)
  • liberal party (8)
  • trade unions congress australian council (8)
  • gay protests (8)
  • australia congress (8)
  • work meeting (8)