Contexts in which the phrase social experiment was used in the Senate during the 1970s

• It is not a charity; it is a social experiment. [More…]

• On Wednesday, 17th March 1971, the leading article in the ‘Canberra Times’ carried the headline: ‘Unique Social Experiment’. [More…]

• There is a strong suspicion that a unique social experiment undertaken by enlightened men who had seen the evils that flowed from the wholesale alienation of land by the Crown and who were determined to prevent a repetition of this in the new Territory, could in the end become no more than an empty legalistic shell. [More…]

• In 1904 the founders of compulsory arbitration in Australia embarked on a novel, and what must have then appeared to be, a rather bold social experiment. [More…]

• The social experiment of nationalising Australian industry has resulted in 300 000 people being unemployed in this country and a golloping inflation rate approaching 20 per cent at present. [More…]

• A social experiment is too risky in this very personal service. [More…]

• Never mind about social desirability; never mind about that great social experiment upon which the Labor Party was going to embark after December 1972; never mind about policies which will really lead to the improvement of the Australian community. [More…]

• How a social experiment of this type can be conducted when the people who are part of the experiment know they are part of it is beyond me. [More…]

• This is a social experiment. [More…]

• I am very surprised that the honourable senator would agree with such a social experiment. [More…]

• Indeed, if the Labor Party had suggested such a social experiment I can imagine the speech the honourable senator would make about it. [More…]

• I question the validity of social experiments of this type at all. [More…]

• I question the timing of this sort of social experiment if that is what is to be done. [More…]

• It is the largest social experiment that has ever been conducted in this country. [More…]

• These same people, at least those at political and union leadership level, who caused that damage now seem to be intent on one thing only, and that is stopping the implementation of a framework of policy in industrial relations that could well see this country rise out of the mire into which it had fallen in the social experiment era. [More…]

• Given this, can the Minister explain why this bold social experiment has, at this late stage, been cancelled? [More…]

• As to the item currently under review, as with other areas, I believe it would be quite wrong to treat the Australian Capital Territory as a place to conduct some social experiment. [More…]

• I want to register in the Senate our approbation- it is almost excitement- that this social experiment, and that is what it is, has succeeded. [More…]