Searching for the word subversive in Senate within the 1970s…
The word subversive
- appears in 0.2% of speeches
- appears 260 times in 157 speeches
- was spoken on 102 sitting days by 51 different people
- appears in speeches on 98 different topics
Top speakers:
- WRIGHT, Reginald (25 uses)
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (18 uses)
- MURPHY, Lionel (15 uses)
- TATE, Michael (13 uses)
- MULVIHILL, James (13 uses)
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Top days:
- 12 May 1970 (26 uses)
- 29 September 1970 (22 uses)
- 4 April 1979 (18 uses)
- 23 September 1970 (15 uses)
- 28 March 1979 (10 uses)
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Top topics:
- AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION BILL 1979 (31 uses)
- SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1970-71: First Reading (26 uses)
- DISSENT FROM RULING (20 uses)
- AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION BILL 1979: Second Readings (18 uses)
- STEVEDORING INDUSTRY CHARGE BILL 1975 (8 uses)
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Associated words:
- subversive activities (24 appearances)
- subversive elements (12 appearances)
- subversive activity (10 appearances)
- subversive organisation (10 appearances)
- subversive action (7 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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I close on this note: I believe that this Senate has been offered an insult by the Premier of Queensland who has charged 2 honourable senators with being subversive elements.
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Does the Minister recollect that only a few years ago members of the present Government parties accused the Australian Labor Party of subversive intent when it advocated the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and that indeed those parties when in government -
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Those who have put forward this proposal for the establishment of a Superior Court forget that we have had incorporated in our Constitution 2 provisions which make all this surplusage and subversive.
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We do not want another example of the attitude expressed by the wartime Labor government on civil rights when individuals were detained not because of any evidence that they were engaged in subversive activities but because they were thought to be.
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I think that it will be completely subversive to family life, as we know it, and within the next quarter of a century will have revolutionised the whole social basis of our civilisation.