Searching for the word subversive in House of Representatives within the 1970s…
The word subversive
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 148 times in 99 speeches
- was spoken on 57 sitting days by 60 different people
- appears in speeches on 54 different topics
Top speakers:
- JONES, Barry (10 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (9 uses)
- BOWEN, Lionel (9 uses)
- SCHOLES, Gordon (8 uses)
- RUDDOCK, Philip (8 uses)
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Top days:
- 20 September 1979 (48 uses)
- 18 September 1979 (14 uses)
- 4 October 1977 (8 uses)
- 19 September 1979 (7 uses)
- 6 October 1977 (4 uses)
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Top topics:
- AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION BILL 1979 (50 uses)
- AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION BILL 1979: Second Reading (19 uses)
- HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR OXLEY: Motion of Censure (7 uses)
- APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1970-71 (4 uses)
- ADJOURNMENT (4 uses)
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Associated words:
- subversive activities (10 appearances)
- subversive activity (9 appearances)
- subversive elements (9 appearances)
- economically subversive (7 appearances)
- potentially subversive (4 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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It is for that reason that we have said that we should look at the real motive for the activities in question and that any activity that is deemed to be subversive needs to be unlawful.
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I want to give honourable members a few brief facts in explanation and proof of this claim and I want to remind Queenslanders to look behind the facade, to look behind the false front of respectability, of interest and concern for Queensland people put forward by the Premier, and see what the real facts are, because if they return a National Party-led coalition government in the Queensland elections on 7 December they will in fact have elected the political front for that sinister, subversive, insidious organisation, the League of Rights.
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We believe, as the Hope Commission did, that any body or any organisation which believes in or has a commitment to the use of force or violence at some future stage, even though it may not be engaged in such activities at the moment or may not intend to engage in them in the near future, for the purpose of overthrowing the constitutional government of the country, should be regarded as subversive and therefore should be capable of being kept under surveillance by the ASIO.
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The citizens in the street would not appreciate the great depths of subversive elements which, like icebergs, generally remain submerged and out of the view of the general public.
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In fact, it may well be regarded as subversive under the terms of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Bill which we are discussing.