Searching for the word rights in Senate within the 1970s…
The word rights
- appears in 4.9% of speeches
- appears 11497 times in 4743 speeches
- was spoken on 696 sitting days by 127 different people
- appears in speeches on 2150 different topics
Top speakers:
- PRESIDENT, The (648 uses)
- KEEFFE, James (608 uses)
- CAVANAGH, James (597 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (569 uses)
- MURPHY, Lionel (564 uses)
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Top days:
- 8 November 1979 (523 uses)
- 13 November 1979 (407 uses)
- 7 December 1976 (194 uses)
- 10 May 1978 (150 uses)
- 24 May 1978 (130 uses)
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Top topics:
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL 1979: Second Readings (728 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (211 uses)
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL 1979 (202 uses)
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (162 uses)
- PETITIONS: Aboriginal Land Rights (146 uses)
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Associated words:
- human rights (1846 appearances)
- land rights (1543 appearances)
- civil rights (317 appearances)
- rights commission (294 appearances)
- rights northern (286 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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The purpose of the existing law- and I think it is a matter of credit that the previous Government introduced these laws- is to ensure that the rights of members of trade unions are not overridden by officials who want to enlarge their empires and who seek to do so without regard to what the rank and file membership may think.
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Aborigines will lose heart in Federal Government if legislation does not include land rights and abolition of the Queensland Acts.
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I will not acknowledge that you have a special privileged position to be allowed double, treble or quadruple the number of questions merely because honourable senators have not been satisfied in relation to their due rights under the relevant Standing Orders to ask questions.
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Although the Bill provides that the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs is to be consulted by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly when it is introducing ordinances on this matter, we do not consider that that provision for consultation is a guarantee that the views of the Federal Minister will be implemented or that the rights and desires of the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory will have priority when the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is proceeding in these matters.
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I think that anyone who is familiar with what happened when divorce was based on the failure to comply with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights would want to avoid a return to that state of affairs.