Searching for the word elected in Senate within the 1970s…
The word elected
- appears in 2.3% of speeches
- appears 4020 times in 2286 speeches
- was spoken on 629 sitting days by 121 different people
- appears in speeches on 1118 different topics
Top speakers:
- MCLAREN, Geoffrey (260 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (184 uses)
- MCCLELLAND, Douglas (163 uses)
- CAVANAGH, James (161 uses)
- WHEELDON, John (131 uses)
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Top days:
- 11 November 1976 (68 uses)
- 16 April 1975 (63 uses)
- 6 August 1974 (55 uses)
- 31 July 1974 (53 uses)
- 8 June 1978 (48 uses)
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Top topics:
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (157 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (64 uses)
- QUESTION: PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION IN THE SENATE (59 uses)
- ELECTORAL LAWS AMENDMENT BILL 1974 [No. 2] (1975) (59 uses)
- NORTHERN TERRITORY (ADMINISTRATION) BILL 1974: Second Reading (55 uses)
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Associated words:
- elected government (209 appearances)
- elected representatives (200 appearances)
- democratically elected (155 appearances)
- elected members (119 appearances)
- fully elected (86 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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As all honourable senators and members were elected to represent the people of Australia, will he guarantee that parliamentarians will be able to reach Canberra to carry out their duties here next week?
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I believe that the residents of the Territory who voted at the last elections for the Assembly- 38,500 people voted from the Canberra electorate and 41,000 from the Fraser electorate- are entitled to see their elected representatives pass legislation and make decisions affecting their lives because those representatives are the only people who are directly responsible, other than the four members of this Parliament, to the people whose lives are being affected.
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He gazed skyward and crossed his heart with a ‘hopeIdropdead’ sort of attitude and said: ‘This Government has been elected on a popular mandate and I shall stick with it’.
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Seeing that all this water has passed under the bridge, let us look now at the justification for this extraordinary act of getting rid of a legally elected government, of dismissing a legally elected Prime Minister.
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An advisory council does provide some means whereby the representative opinion of certain elected persons in the Australian Capital Territory can be heard and considered before the legislation comes into force.