Searching for the word oppressed in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word oppressed
- appears in 0.0% of speeches
- appears 56 times in 49 speeches
- was spoken on 45 sitting days by 32 different people
- appears in speeches on 42 different topics
Top speakers:
- MACKELLAR, Michael (5 uses)
- JAMES, Albert (4 uses)
- UREN, Tom (4 uses)
- JOHNSON, Leslie (3 uses)
- ENDERBY, Kep (3 uses)
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Top days:
- 22 March 1979 (3 uses)
- 3 May 1973 (3 uses)
- 21 September 1976 (2 uses)
- 16 April 1975 (2 uses)
- 26 May 1976 (2 uses)
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Top topics:
- ADJOURNMENT (6 uses)
- QUESTION: TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY: MEDICAL BENEFITS (3 uses)
- CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL 1972: Second Reading (2 uses)
- RACIALLY SELECTED SPORTS TEAMS: Discussion of Matter of Public Importance (2 uses)
- INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2) 1976: Second Reading (2 uses)
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Associated words:
- oppressed people (6 appearances)
- feel oppressed (3 appearances)
- oppressed minorities (3 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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I do not think it is fair to any sector of the community, even though it comprises the weak and allegedly oppressed, that a government for a short period of time should offer them the world and do this for them and that for them and give them this and give them that in a quite irresponsible fashion when it is perfectly obvious that such a situation cannot last and that the next government will have the task of saying: ‘We are terribly sorry but this just cannot be continued’.
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Women who are aware of social issues like the abortion issue and who know that this issue and other issues that fundamentally concern them are going to be decided in this House of men do feel oppressed.
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Where laws are framed to protect the self-interest of a small privileged group, there is no reason why the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and the oppressed should feel bound by these laws.
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That development is impossible without a series of military reverses and defeates of governments that receive blows from their own oppressed classes.
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Most were looking to Australia, as a nation of long established compassion, to provide the sanctuary it has so often given to other oppressed peoples, regardless of political persuasion.