Searching for the word minorities in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word minorities
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 118 times in 94 speeches
- was spoken on 81 sitting days by 54 different people
- appears in speeches on 84 different topics
Top speakers:
- EVERINGHAM, Douglas (8 uses)
- KENNEDY, Andrew (8 uses)
- BRYANT, Gordon (6 uses)
- SHIPTON, Roger (5 uses)
- WHITLAM, Gough (4 uses)
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Top days:
- 21 April 1971 (11 uses)
- 8 November 1979 (7 uses)
- 24 August 1978 (4 uses)
- 2 June 1975 (4 uses)
- 7 April 1971 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) BILL 1971: Second Reading (11 uses)
- JOINT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE: Report (7 uses)
- CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS) BILL 1975 [No. 2]: Second Reading (4 uses)
- TELECOM DISPUTE: Ministerial Statement (4 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (3 uses)
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Associated words:
- ethnic minorities (11 appearances)
- national minorities (5 appearances)
- oppressed minorities (3 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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Article 5 of that convention obliges the parties to recognise ‘the right of members of national minorities to carry on their own educational activities’ and ‘the use or the teaching of their own language’.
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We are prepared to go without for a little longer so that we can make it quite clear to the minorities, the militants and the ALP that we are not prepared to let them run over us yet again.
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The argument is that minorities should be better and more specifically represented than the 2-party system allows.
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The smaller countries will continue to have many problems - political instability, economic rivalry, territorial disputes and trouble from minorities and racial and sectarian groups.
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It evidences a torment of conscience, perhaps, of contemporary society for the way in which it has been derelict in its duties and responsibilities over the years to some of the unfortunate minorities.