Searching for the word protesting in Senate within the 1970s…
The word protesting
- appears in 0.2% of speeches
- appears 170 times in 147 speeches
- was spoken on 122 sitting days by 53 different people
- appears in speeches on 125 different topics
Top speakers:
- CAVANAGH, James (14 uses)
- MURPHY, Lionel (10 uses)
- WILLESEE, Don (8 uses)
- MULVIHILL, James (8 uses)
- WRIGHT, Reginald (7 uses)
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Top days:
- 20 September 1972 (8 uses)
- 29 April 1971 (5 uses)
- 18 May 1972 (4 uses)
- 9 April 1974 (3 uses)
- 8 November 1978 (3 uses)
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Top topics:
- ADJOURNMENT (9 uses)
- QUESTION: TRESPASS ON COMMONWEALTH LANDS ORDINANCE (8 uses)
- PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) BILL 1971: Second Reading (5 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT: National Service - Unemployment - Industrial Relations (4 uses)
- PUBLIC ORDER (PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY) BILL 1971 (4 uses)
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Sample sentences:
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I make the point that the draft card burners are not so much protesting against the quality of this law as they are objecting to the rule of law.
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If they had wanted to protest against the infringement of States’ rights or, more importantly in my view, the gross and scandalous infringements of the rights of the individual and the denial of the most fundamental principles of AngloAustralian jurisprudence, they should have started protesting 25 years ago about the Atomic Energy Act.
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Mr Tonkin has gone on record protesting vigorously about the dangers for the River Murray if a paper pulp mill is built near Wodonga.
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I reiterate that that is why we are here and today we have a very rare opportunity of protesting our position and exercising our right as representing a component State of the Federation.
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Senator Wright made the same kind of wrong statements that have been made here tonight about the Labor Party not protesting against the Chinese nuclear tests.