Searching for the word representative in Senate within the 1970s…
The word representative
- appears in 2.0% of speeches
- appears 2724 times in 1968 speeches
- was spoken on 633 sitting days by 123 different people
- appears in speeches on 1290 different topics
Top speakers:
- PRESIDENT, The (130 uses)
- CAVANAGH, James (119 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (109 uses)
- MULVIHILL, James (108 uses)
- WRIGHT, Reginald (100 uses)
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Top days:
- 20 November 1973 (34 uses)
- 25 February 1971 (32 uses)
- 6 August 1974 (31 uses)
- 10 December 1976 (25 uses)
- 17 July 1974 (19 uses)
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Top topics:
- ADJOURNMENT (79 uses)
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (52 uses)
- SCHOOLS COMMISSION BILL 1973 (45 uses)
- AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BILL 1971 (30 uses)
- QUESTION: SENATE (REPRESENTATION OF TERRITORIES) ACT 1973 (25 uses)
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Associated words:
- one representative (76 appearances)
- australian representative (54 appearances)
- government representative (39 appearances)
- special representative (38 appearances)
- elected representative (31 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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The Democratic Labor Party made representations to have a representative on the Committee.
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Perhaps .1 was the only observer from Australia at all, because I am not aware that any direct representative of the Australian Press was present.
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The Government has received the very strongest representations from the industry and from the Stevedoring Industry Council, which is representative of all sides in the stevedoring industry, that urgent action be taken- it is not some socialist plot, it is something that has the agreement of the whole industry- to ensure a proper rate for the charge and the continuing financial stability of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority.
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I would regard that as a hideous case of exploitation of one’s position as a representative of the people and I would regard it as a denigration and an unexampled surrender of the independence of a judge who should stand by the salary fixed by parliament for his brothers as a salary that parliament will never alter except upward, as in recent times inflation has necessitated.
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After the ‘Decolonisation’ Committee of the United Nations had visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands the Australian representative on the Committee of Twenty-four, Mr Duncan Campbell, made a statement to the Committee in November 1 974 setting out the then Government’s policy so far as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands were concerned.