Every year, the Prime Minister presents a summary on the key national events and issues for the city-state at the National Day Rally (NDR). The NDR speech is not just a platform for policy announcements, it is also a barometer of the prevailing public sentiments in Singapore.
Every year, the Prime Minister presents a summary on the key national events and issues for the city-state at the National Day Rally .
In our endeavour to unpack the evolving story of the city-state, we embarked on an analytical journey to identify and catalogue the key themes of NDRs from 1991 to 2023. We discerned the emerging themes spanning three distinct decades: 1991 to 2000, 2001 to 2010, and 2011 to 2023. The results were both revealing and intriguing.Our analysis distilled the vast expanse of content into 10 distinct themes that resonated throughout the years.
Importantly, it is an inspirational rhetoric to rally Singaporeans to unite as one in the pursuit of a collective goal. The emphasis is ostensibly due to Singapore’s first political leadership renewal, when Mr Goh Chok Tong succeeded the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew as the Prime Minister of Singapore in 1990.
In essence, economic growth, financial resilience, and social cohesion are inexplicably tied together as topic clusters.The 2011 to 2023 period was particularly evocative. The theme of “Progress and Vision” featured prominently in most of the NDR radar. Like the impact of terrorism, the impact of the pandemic is interwoven with the economic and experiential aspects of citizenship where the thematic clustering of rally speeches are concerned.Disruptive events that have profound impact tend to trigger debates in other ancillary topics in the ensuing years.
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