Searching for the word democrat in Senate within the 1970s…
The word democrat
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 103 times in 82 speeches
- was spoken on 73 sitting days by 36 different people
- appears in speeches on 72 different topics
Top speakers:
- MASON, Colin (12 uses)
- MULVIHILL, James (9 uses)
- WHEELDON, John (7 uses)
- PUPLICK, Chris (7 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (6 uses)
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Top days:
- 19 September 1979 (4 uses)
- 27 May 1976 (4 uses)
- 11 November 1976 (4 uses)
- 20 September 1978 (3 uses)
- 13 September 1978 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: BUDGET PAPERS 1978-79 (6 uses)
- PERSONAL EXPLANATION (4 uses)
- APPLE AND PEAR STABILIZATION AMENDMENT BILL 1976: Second Reading (4 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT: Trials of Czechoslovakian Dissidents -Alleged Debts of Australian Democrats Candidate (4 uses)
- FEDERATED CLERKS UNION OF AUSTRALIA: Suspension of Standing Orders (4 uses)
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Associated words:
- australian democrat (20 appearances)
- social democrat (12 appearances)
- great democrat (11 appearances)
- democrat government (5 appearances)
- democrat policy (4 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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Senator Baume adopted the very respectable and proper view that it is the democratic right of an elected government to implement its policies.
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If the inhabitants of the Australian Capital Territory do not want to acknowledge what has been done by Liberal-Country Party governments and if they wish to persist in saying that Australia would be governed better by an Australian Labor Party government, I - and I think I am a fair democrat– am prepared to acknowledge their right to say so.
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I think I can always talk, my friends, just to get back to this one thought: unless the Governors of the state, I don’t give a hoot whether a Democrat or Republican is in this kind of a job, we are Americans, in the Federal Government, unless we can cooperate on the basis of understanding of the facts and progress steadily, surely and confidently in carrying out a program that we believe will establish the security of the United States, not only from a bomb, from some kind of destructive action of the enemy, but make sure that its surpluses are carried abroad and in return for those surpluses we get back goods that will allow those people to buy our surpluses; unless we have that kind of economic strength we are going to have to live a very different kind of life than we do.
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The then shadow Minister for Social Security and for a short time the caretaker Minister for Social Security, who is now an Australian Democrat senator in this place, promised, on behalf of the Government- he has said repeatedly since then that he had the support of both the Liberal and National Country Parties- that pensions would be automatically and immediately indexed to the consumer price index twice yearly and that pensions would be taken out of politics.
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Here is the man who poses as a democrat.