Searching for the word racial in Senate within the 1970s…
The word racial
- appears in 0.4% of speeches
- appears 1239 times in 437 speeches
- was spoken on 239 sitting days by 71 different people
- appears in speeches on 242 different topics
Top speakers:
- MISSEN, Alan (100 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (99 uses)
- MURPHY, Lionel (83 uses)
- KEEFFE, James (76 uses)
- DAVIDSON, Gordon (51 uses)
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Top days:
- 15 May 1975 (124 uses)
- 22 May 1975 (108 uses)
- 8 November 1979 (95 uses)
- 27 May 1975 (86 uses)
- 13 November 1979 (44 uses)
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Top topics:
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL 1975: Second Reading (302 uses)
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL 1979: Second Readings (128 uses)
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL 1979 (51 uses)
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL 1975 (48 uses)
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL 1974: Second Reading (40 uses)
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Associated words:
- racial discrimination (825 appearances)
- racial hatred (23 appearances)
- racial prejudice (19 appearances)
- racial grounds (17 appearances)
- combat racial (16 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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The first relates to the constitutional justification which might have been offered for this legislation; the second is to consider whether laws of this character can be expected to have the overall beneficial effects which can be claimed for legislation which deals with racial discrimination; and the third is to specify a little more precisely why the Opposition will propose its type of enforcement in preference to that which the Government has suggested.
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What effect will the setting up of a Human Rights Commission have on the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act.
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That the widest possible educational and publicity campaign be undertaken and, in particular among disadvantaged sections of the population, with respect to the Human Rights Bill and the Racial Discrimination Bill, if and when enacted, and the Legal Aid Schemes.
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Of course the Bill does not give specific legislative approval to the ratification of the Covenant as did by way of contrast the Radial Discrimination Act 1975 in relation to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
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The point I make is that in 190 1 the Prime Minister of this country was prepared to assert himself in that clear way on a similar matter which involved people of racial origins different from the bulk of the Australian community.