Searching for the phrase boat people in Senate within the 1970s…
The phrase boat people
- appears in 0.0% of speeches
- appears 41 times in 27 speeches
- was spoken on 20 sitting days by 15 different people
- appears in speeches on 23 different topics
Top speakers:
- GUILFOYLE, Margaret (8 uses)
- MULVIHILL, James (6 uses)
- ROBERTSON, Edward (6 uses)
- CARRICK, John (4 uses)
- SIM, John (3 uses)
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Top days:
- 30 May 1979 (7 uses)
- 22 November 1979 (4 uses)
- 23 October 1979 (3 uses)
- 22 February 1978 (3 uses)
- 7 April 1978 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GROUP C (7 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT: Timor- Unemployment- South Australian Farm Machinery Manufacturer: Retrenchment of Employees (3 uses)
- QUESTION: INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS IN HANSARD (3 uses)
- MIGRATION AMENDMENT BILL 1979: Second Reading (3 uses)
- QUESTION: REFUGEES (3 uses)
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Sample sentences:
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-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it a fact that the Minister, during the recent Liberal Party Conference, stated that he did not consider what we have called boat people’ to be illegal immigrants?
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We must realise that in one day in Hong Kong 3,000 boat people arrived and 2,000 arrived on other days.
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The present position with these boat people is that their applications for refugee status are still under examination by the Depanment of Refugee Status Committee.
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In one sense, this may stop the pressure caused by the arrival of boat people.
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We saw many thousands of boat people in Hong Kong and their circumstances could only be deplored and their courage admired.