Searching for the word racist in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word racist
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 256 times in 151 speeches
- was spoken on 106 sitting days by 60 different people
- appears in speeches on 106 different topics
Top speakers:
- COHEN, Barry (34 uses)
- CALDER, Stephen (16 uses)
- WHITLAM, Gough (13 uses)
- BRYANT, Gordon (11 uses)
- HUNT, Ralph (11 uses)
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Top days:
- 8 April 1975 (19 uses)
- 20 April 1972 (17 uses)
- 5 April 1978 (13 uses)
- 20 March 1974 (8 uses)
- 4 April 1974 (7 uses)
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Top topics:
- RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BILL 1975: Second Reading (20 uses)
- QUESTION: RACIAL PREJUDICE AND VIOLENCE (17 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (10 uses)
- ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS (QUEENSLAND RESERVES AND COMMUNITIES SELF-MANAGEMENT) BILL 1978 (10 uses)
- APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1970-71 (7 uses)
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Associated words:
- racist policies (15 appearances)
- racist attitudes (12 appearances)
- racist country (7 appearances)
- racist attitude (6 appearances)
- racist basis (5 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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But the bucket over Australia from our neighbours and the world if we return to the racist policies of the past would drown us all as good neighbours for an entire generation, and I think that the bulk of the Australian people will reject that.
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I imagine that it will remove the last vestiges of racist legislation from the statute books of Queensland.
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That is an excessively paternalistic and, quite frankly, racist attitude, which assumes that Aboriginals do not have the capacity to decide for themselves what sort of lives they want to lead.
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The charge was made that 3 Country Party ex-Ministers were racist and anti-Aboriginal.
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I do not think we have to talk about the racist expressions of Government supporters; all we have to judge them by is their actions.