Searching for the word elected in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word elected
- appears in 2.4% of speeches
- appears 4282 times in 2603 speeches
- was spoken on 639 sitting days by 220 different people
- appears in speeches on 1325 different topics
Top speakers:
- WHITLAM, Gough (236 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (206 uses)
- SCHOLES, Gordon (143 uses)
- DALY, Fred (134 uses)
- CAMERON, Clyde (96 uses)
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Top days:
- 3 November 1976 (66 uses)
- 6 August 1974 (55 uses)
- 14 October 1975 (53 uses)
- 17 February 1977 (51 uses)
- 30 July 1974 (43 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (229 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (95 uses)
- QUESTION: NOEL WILSON (60 uses)
- GRIEVANCE DEBATE (51 uses)
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS) BILL 1977: Second Reading (47 uses)
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Associated words:
- elected government (227 appearances)
- elected representatives (227 appearances)
- elected members (137 appearances)
- democratically elected (128 appearances)
- fully elected (76 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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We badly need some principle, such as is seen in the membership of the Australian Wool Board, where some membersare elected not because they are involved in wool production but because they have special experience in marketing, in finance or in advertising.
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As the Prime Minister said in his second-reading speech it is designed to seek approval for ‘an amendment of the Constitution which would write into it the principle of substantial equality of electoral divisions for all the Parliaments of Australia and a provision that the State Houses of Parliament be elected directly by the people’.
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I have stated the position in relation to Brisbane Airport, Caboolture Airport and just for good measure, Townsville Airport which nobody elected to mention but I raised it anyway.
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It is recommended the majority of members of Boards of Directors of all funds should be democratically elected by the contributors and that full public disclosure of accounts is made.
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Further, are not the commercial terms laid down to the democratically elected Government of Ceylon more onerous than those extended to Malaysia and Singapore in normal arms and ammunition supply transactions and so stringent as to make it unlikely that Ceylon can fulfil them and so obtain any assistance from Australia?