Searching for the word democracy in Senate within the 1970s…
The word democracy
- appears in 1.2% of speeches
- appears 2186 times in 1123 speeches
- was spoken on 462 sitting days by 111 different people
- appears in speeches on 582 different topics
Top speakers:
- MULVIHILL, James (135 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (119 uses)
- SCOTT, Douglas (104 uses)
- WHEELDON, John (102 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (85 uses)
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Top days:
- 22 October 1975 (68 uses)
- 6 August 1974 (59 uses)
- 2 March 1978 (50 uses)
- 24 February 1977 (44 uses)
- 16 April 1975 (43 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (148 uses)
- APPROPRIATION BILLS 1975-76 (65 uses)
- QUESTION: COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT (No. 2) 1973 (53 uses)
- APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 2) 1975-76 (43 uses)
- ELECTORAL LAWS AMENDMENT BILL 1974 [No. 2] (1975): Second Reading (38 uses)
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Associated words:
- parliamentary democracy (220 appearances)
- industrial democracy (57 appearances)
- australian democracy (50 appearances)
- representative democracy (23 appearances)
- western democracy (23 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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The Minister kept assuring us that our anxiety was totally unjustified because everything would be accessible to the public; that procedures would be established whereby the ultimate expression of democracy could take place, in that the public could come and say, ‘We do not like that station, that kind of broadcasting’, that if enough of them said it, in a democratic way, their wishes would be observed and they would be able to bring about change.
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Has the Government made any approach to the Siagon regime about this abysmal lack of democratic process following Australia’s contribution of 470 Australians dead and a great sum of money expended for the so called maintenance of democracy?
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That is a negation of democracy.
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These are all matters which are now well accepted features of our Australian democracy.
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I am asking again whether the Senate is going to tear up democracy and deny me the right to have this table incorporated in Hansard.