Searching for the word constitutional in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word constitutional
- appears in 1.9% of speeches
- appears 4009 times in 2090 speeches
- was spoken on 610 sitting days by 190 different people
- appears in speeches on 1094 different topics
Top speakers:
- WHITLAM, Gough (399 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (194 uses)
- BOWEN, Lionel (168 uses)
- ELLICOTT, Bob (140 uses)
- SINCLAIR, Ian (113 uses)
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Top days:
- 17 February 1977 (78 uses)
- 9 October 1975 (76 uses)
- 21 November 1973 (67 uses)
- 18 February 1975 (62 uses)
- 6 March 1974 (61 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (103 uses)
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (INTER-CHANGE OF POWERS) BILL 1975: Second Reading (69 uses)
- QUESTION: CONSTITUTIONALTERATION(MODE (67 uses)
- APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1975-76 AND APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 2) 1975-76 (66 uses)
- CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (58 uses)
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Associated words:
- constitutional convention (385 appearances)
- constitutional power (252 appearances)
- constitutional review (201 appearances)
- constitutional powers (158 appearances)
- constitutional development (124 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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Although I accept that the distribution of the quotas within the States is the constitutional responsibility of the States and not the Commonwealth, the national quota from which the State quotas are derived is the responsibility of the Commonwealth.
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My disillusion even with joint select committees stems from the Committee on Constitutional Review to whose work I and others devoted over 100 full sitting days and subsequent Ministers have paid scant regard.
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Such matters are the core of Cabinet responsibility and part of the constitutional practice in this country.
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From the very nature of the subversive acts intended to be kept under surveillance it must be a matter of judgment, both by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation as well as by society, because a mixture of social, political and constitutional elements of the framework of Australian democracy are involved.
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The Government believes that anybody or any organisation which believes in and has a commitment to the use of force or violence at some future stage, even though it may not be engaged in such activities at the moment or may not even intend to engage in them in the near future, for the purposes of overthrowing the constitutional Government of this country should be regarded as subversive and should be kept under surveillance.