Searching for the word child in Senate within the 1970s…
The word child
- appears in 1.7% of speeches
- appears 4883 times in 1649 speeches
- was spoken on 528 sitting days by 108 different people
- appears in speeches on 848 different topics
Top speakers:
- GUILFOYLE, Margaret (655 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (214 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (210 uses)
- CAVANAGH, James (166 uses)
- RYAN, Susan (160 uses)
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Top days:
- 30 October 1972 (182 uses)
- 13 September 1979 (130 uses)
- 21 April 1971 (123 uses)
- 28 May 1975 (108 uses)
- 7 November 1977 (86 uses)
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Top topics:
- CHILD CARE BILL 1972: Second Reading (271 uses)
- QUESTION: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD (168 uses)
- SOCIAL SERVICES: Suspension of Standing Orders (120 uses)
- CHILDREN’S COMMISSION BILL 1975: Second Reading (108 uses)
- SOCIAL SERVICES BILL (No. 2) 1971: Second Reading (104 uses)
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Associated words:
- child care (863 appearances)
- child endowment (650 appearances)
- handicapped child (151 appearances)
- one child (99 appearances)
- every child (80 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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What are the current criteria, applied by the Office of Child Care, in assessing the eligibility of new child care proposals for Federal funding.
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Even in the resplendent isle of Tasmania about 100 such cases occur every year and are reported to the Child Protection Assessment Board, and even that number may be only the tip of the iceberg.
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It is difficult not to feel guilty about the gross imbalance of living standards, to contrast a child growing up in a Calcutta slum, or dying of starvation in Cambodia, with our own affluence.
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Child endowment is now an accepted feature of family income and for some time the Government has been concerned that the larger family has been more adversely affected by wage and price increases than the smaller family with, say, one or two children.
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Wealthy people are not ashamed to accept child endowment which they pay into their children ‘s bank accounts, or to apply for the Home Savings Grant.