Searching for the word decolonisation in Senate within the 1970s…
The word decolonisation
- appears in 0.0% of speeches
- appears 53 times in 35 speeches
- was spoken on 29 sitting days by 17 different people
- appears in speeches on 22 different topics
Top speakers:
- WILLESEE, Don (14 uses)
- GIETZELT, Arthur (10 uses)
- MCCLELLAND, Douglas (6 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (4 uses)
- BONNER, Neville (3 uses)
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Top days:
- 22 February 1979 (5 uses)
- 24 March 1977 (4 uses)
- 5 November 1975 (4 uses)
- 6 November 1979 (3 uses)
- 5 May 1976 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: SELECT COMMITTEE ON EAST TIMOR (9 uses)
- QUESTION: PORTUGUESE TIMOR (9 uses)
- COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS AMENDMENT BILL 1979: Second Reading (5 uses)
- QUESTION: TIMOR (5 uses)
- EAST TIMOR: Matter of Urgency (3 uses)
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Associated words:
- decolonisation committee (5 appearances)
- decolonisation process (5 appearances)
- decolonisation program (4 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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We became the guests of the Portuguese authorities who had begun the process of decolonisation, preparing the people for the act of self-determination and for independence.
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It was further agreed that there should, ‘at the earliest possible time’, be a ‘meeting between Portugal and all the political parties of Portuguese Timor’ aimed at ‘ending armed strife and bringing about a peaceful and orderly process of decolonisation’.
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Nonetheless, the Government understands that Portugal is to make an attempt to retrieve some lost ground by sending a negotiating team with a view to persuading Fretilin and UDT to stop fighting and to agree to negotiate new arrangements among the Timorese parties for orderly decolonisation.
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It reflects, above all, the immaturity of Timor’s own aspiring political leaders, who in less than eighteen months have succeeded in wrecking Portugal’s decolonisation program, sharply polarising political opinions through the territory, and finally plunging the territory into violent civil war.
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Australia is not a party principal to the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor but it is concerned that in that process the best interests of the people of the territory should be of paramount consideration, and Australia has always acted with that viewpoint in mind.