blue

en-adj

blue (comparative bluer or more blue, superlative bluest or most blue)

bluer (comparative)
more blue (comparative)
bluest (superlative)
most blue (superlative)

conservative

antonym(s) of “pertaining to the US Democratic Party”

red

antonym(s) of “dominated by higher-frequency electromagnetic radiation”

antiblue

antonym(s) of “having blue as its colour charge”

Tok Pisin: blu

→ Fiji Hindi: bulu

→ Shona: bhuluu

→ Somali: buluug

→ Swahili: bluu, buluu

→ Tooro: bururu

From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.

belau

blue-coloured — see also dark blue, light blue

Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

(politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

(Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.


red

en-adj

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)

redder (comparative)
more red (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
most red (superlative)

nonred

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour”

antired

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour charge”

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

"Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with. https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm

the red-black grand coalition in Germany

(politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

a red state

a red Congress

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.

All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red

(chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations

punanahka-

derogatory: relating to Amerindians or First Nations

(astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

punainen

astronomy: of the lower-frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum


red

en-noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

sekobarbitaali

slang: secobarbital — see also secobarbital

Coordinate term: pinko

(countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

(Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade


liberal

The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.

vasemmistolainen

someone left-wing — see also progressive, left-winger

liberal conservative
liberal conservative

(Australian politics) A conservative, especially a liberal conservative.


boat

Belizean Creole: boat

→ Esperanto: boato

→ Dhivehi: ބޯޓު (bōṭu)

→ Fijian: boto

→ Hijazi Arabic: بوت (bōt)

→ Japanese: ボート (bōto)

→ Malay: bot

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)

→ Sinhalese: බෝට්ටුව (bōṭṭuwa)

→ Swahili: boti

→ Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)

→ Tahitian: poti

Tok Pisin: bot

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

der

(Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.


small-l liberal

en-noun

small-l liberal (plural small-l liberals)

I was a factional warrior for the [New South Wales] Right of the [New South Wales] Libs. […] the main reason I allowed my membership to lapse was simple. I saw the conservative wing being overrun by a bunch of feral ex-lefties for whom being small “l” liberal was only a means to further their careers in the political sex industry.

2006 January 3, Irfan Yusuf, “What’s changed about me?”, in Webdiary:

Was this a reflection of [then-leader of the Victorian Liberal Party Teb] Baillieu's small-l liberal values or just a product of anger over public safety and inadequate rail services?

2010 December 4, Michael Gordon, “Big challenges for Melbourne's small-l Liberal”, in The Sunday Morning Herald:

Harry Guinness, was a policy and political adviser to Julie Bishop when she was foreign minister and deputy Liberal leader. His responsibilities included foreign aid, climate change and environmental sustainability. Last summer’s bushfires were the catalyst for Guinness — self-described as “definitely philosophically a small ‘l’ Liberal” — and colleagues to set up Blueprint as a pro-market think tank.

2021 March 12, Mike Steketee, “The revolt of the Liberal moderates”, in Inside Story:

(Australian politics) A person who is a member of, or associated with, the Moderate (centrist) faction of the Liberal Party of Australia.


spill

en-verb

spill (third-person singular simple present spills, present participle spilling, simple past and past participle spilled or spilt)

spills (present singular third-person)
spilling (participle present)
spilled (participle past)
spilled (past)
spilt (participle past)
spilt (past)

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).
Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”). See also spool.

cog

(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.


spill

leadership spill
leadership spill#English

(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.


Greens

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin prasinī (“Leek-Greens”) or factio prasina (“the leek-green faction”) and Byzantine Greek Πράσινοι (Prásinoi, “Leek-Greens”).

bor

(Australian politics) The Australian Greens, a left-wing, progressive green party in Australia


Joh

How Joh inspired a generation.

Nationals shake off Joh era.

Abolishing compulsory voting would take Queensland back to Joh era, says Wayne Swan.

diminutive of Johannes — notably used in reference to:

(Australian politics) Sir Johannes “Joh” Bjelke-Petersen (1911–2005), Premier of Queensland 1968–1987.


Labor

Nevertheless there is a distinct difference of emphasis, in the sense just indicated, between the two sides of Australian politics. There has always been some international isolationism, too, in Labor circles in Australia.

1970, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Institute of Pacific Relations, Australia and the Pacific, page 10:

Labor did not regain office until 1929, and then only for a three-year period.

1984, David Harris Solomon, Australia′s Government and Parliament, page 102:

Labor’s formal reconciliation with the federal Constitution during the postwar decades has been a significant development both for the ALP and for Australian politics generally.

1995, Brian Galligan, A Federal Republic: Australia′s Constitutional System of Government, page 109:

(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.


Liberal

(Australian politics) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Australia.


COA

(Australian politics) Clipping of coalition. (Liberal–National coalition)


Nat

(slang, informal, Australian politics) A member or supporter of the Australian National Party.


Dorothy Dixer

Named after US advice columnist Dorothy Dix (1870–1951), who reputedly invented some of the more interesting readers’ questions she answered, + -er.

Betraying not a sign of the general mayhem he had just created, he answered a Dorothy Dixer about television violence.

2002, Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, page 273:

On both sides of the chamber, Question Time became highly programmed. This led on the Government side to questions, almost without exception, being Dorothy Dixers of the worst kind.[…]The total domination of this sort of Dorothy Dixer under the Keating Government reduced the use of Question Time considerably.

2006, Julian Disney, J. R. Nethercote, The House on Capital Hill: Parliament, Politics, and Power in the National Capital, page 226:

The real and nasty political attack came later, in question time, when every Labor minister who stood in response to a Dorothy Dixer did so in order to aim a new kick at the cods of the Opposition leader, from a different direction.

2010, Annabel Crabb, Rise of the Ruddbot: Observations from the Gallery, page 244:

(Australian politics) A question asked of a minister by a member of their own party, to give the minister the opportunity to promote the government's work, criticise the opposition, etc.


Liberal Democrat

en-noun

Liberal Democrat (plural Liberal Democrats)

(Australian politics, UK politics) a member of the Liberal Democrats political party


Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrats (UK)
Liberal Party (UK)
Social Democratic Party (UK)

From the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democrats.

(Australian politics) A right-wing libertarian political party


Lib Dem

(Australian politics, UK politics, informal) Liberal Democrat


Hansonism

The political policies of Pauline Hanson, leader of the Australian One Nation Party.


greenie

From green + -ie. Environmentalist sense first attested in Australia in 1973, referring to trade unionists who supported green bans.

(Australian politics, informal, by extension) A member of the Australian Greens.


Dreamtime

A false calque of Eastern Arrernte Altyerrenge (“the Dreaming”), based on the incorrect assumption that the word is related to altyerre (“a dream”) or altyerre areme (“to dream”). "-time" is an addition unrooted in Aboriginal language.

calque

No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) .

The tall slender birds were performing a legendary fight in the Dreamtime story – one that the old law had marked on them forever with a wattle of flaming red skin on the back of their heads.

2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 101:

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.

time of creation of the world in Australian mythology

夢幻時光 /梦幻时光 (mènghuàn shíguāng) (no equivalent exists; lit. "fantasy time")


Lib

(Australian politics) A member of the Liberal Party of Australia.


dixer

From Dix + -er. See Dorothy Dixer for more.

(Australian politics) Synonym of Dorothy Dixer (“a planted parliamentary question”).


songline

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting; a dreaming track.


Dreaming

The men in this moving mirage of battered vehicles felt they had well and truly followed the Dreaming.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 124:

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the shaping of the physical and spiritual world by the ancestors; the events or beliefs connected to these times.


dreaming track

The spiritual Dreaming track of the ceremony in which they were all involved, moved along the most isolated back roads, across the landscape, through almost every desert in the continent.

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.

夢幻路線 /梦幻路线 (mènghuàn lùxiàn) (no equivalent exists; lit. "fantasy route")


land rights for gay whales

en-noun

land rights for gay whales pl (plural only)

(Australia) a parody of typical Greens policies and those that support them.


branch stacking

(Australian politics) The recruitment of members for a branch of a political party in order to influence the outcome of internal preselections of candidates for public office.


men in blue ties

From the association of the colour blue with the Liberal party.

2013, Gillard's warning on 'men in blue ties', Skynews.com.au
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has played the gender card as she fights for electoral survival, warning the coalition's 'men in blue ties' would marginalise female politicians and treat abortion as a political plaything.

(Australian politics, derogatory) The men of the Liberal party and their background lobbyists, particularly with regard to women's issues.


Liberals

(Australian politics) The Liberal Party of Australia.


Cinderella State

After the fairy-tale character of Cinderella, who is abused and neglected by her stepfamily.

(Australian politics) A state (of Australia) that is financially or politically disadvantaged or neglected.


Laborite

(Australian politics) a member or supporter of the Australian Labor Party, a centre-left political party of Australia.


Utegate

The Australian Federal Police revealed this afternoon that the email that sparked the so-called Utegate controversy was faked.

2009 June 22, Phillip Coorey, Annabel Crabb, Sydney Morning Herald:

(informal, Australian politics) A 2009 scandal around the lending of a ute to Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by car dealer John Grant, and subsequent allegations of improper favourable treatment of Grant by the Department of the Treasury.


Grangegate

(informal, Australian politics) A 2014 scandal over Australian politician Barry O'Farrell's failure to declare a gift of a $3,000 bottle of Grange Hermitage wine from a business executive.


Playmander

Blend of Playford + gerrymander. Thomas Playford IV governed for most of the period that the Playmander was in place.

(historical, Australian politics) A system of electoral overrepresentation of rural areas in South Australia from 1936 to 1968, benefitting the Liberal and Country League.


PMC

Stephanie Foster, the PMC deputy secretary of governance, told the finance and public administration estimates hearing that Morrison convenes meetings attended by others.

2020 March 2, Paul Karp, “Scott Morrison’s one-man cabinet committee an ‘abuse of process’, Labor says”, in The Guardian:

(Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.


Albo

(Australia, informal) Anthony Albanese, the 31st Prime Minister of Australia.


LNP

Liberal National Party
Liberal National Party#English

(Australian politics) Initialism of Liberal National Party. (of Queensland)

(Australian politics) Abbreviation of Liberal and National parties. (coalition)


ONP

(Pauline Hanson's) One Nation Party
w:Pauline Hanson's One Nation

(Australian politics) Initialism of (Pauline Hanson's) One Nation Party.


PHON

Pauline Hanson's One Nation
w:Pauline Hanson's One Nation

(Australian politics) Initialism of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.


wombat trail

(Australian politics, informal) The rural campaign trail, particularly with reference to the National Party.


leadership spill

leadership spill (plural leadership spills)

Despite claims by the Snedden forces that the rebels had managed to muster no more than 14 votes for a leadership 'spill', the result in the secret ballot had in fact been very close.

1976, Laurie Oakes, Crash Through Or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister, page 41:

(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.


ScoMo

"During a brief pause in this conviviality, ScoMo and his staff worked out which media table to visit next."

2018 May 9, James Jeffery, “Long live all of us: Scott Morrison’s blessing”, in The Australian, retrieved 2018-08-28:

(Australia, informal) Scott Morrison (born 1968), Australian politician and 30th Prime Minister of Australia.


National Party

National Party of Australia
w:National Party of Australia

(Australian politics) Short for National Party of Australia.


Hawkespeak

From Hawke + -speak, first used c. 1983.

(Australian politics, colloquial, derogatory) The type of convoluted and prolix spoken diction of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke.


L/NP

(Australian politics) Abbreviation of Liberal / National parties. (coalition)


National

(Australian politics, New Zealand politics) A member of the National Party


Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia
w:Liberal Party of Australia

(Australian politics) Ellipsis of Liberal Party of Australia.


Coalition

(Australia, politics) Ellipsis of Coalition of the Liberal Party and National Party. (Liberal-National coalition)


COALition

2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.

2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.

(Australia, politics, slang, mildly derogatory) The Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party, emphasising its pro-coal policies.


Wexit

Blend of west + exit. Modeled on Brexit and Grexit.

(Australia, politics) Alternative form of Waxit (“Western Australia exit”)


Quexit

Blend of Queensland + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.

Pauline Hanson's election to the senate in Queensland has prompted calls for a 'Quexit' by those unhappy with the result.

2016 July 3, Leith Huffadine, “'Quexit' vote call to separate Queensland from the rest of Australia emerges after state's controversial politician Pauline Hanson gains a senate seat”, in Daily Mail:

Move over Brexit, angry regional Queenslanders are talking 'Quexit' as they feel the state Labor government has taken too long to make a decision on the proposed Adani coal mine in the Galilee Basin.

2019 May 23, Robyn Wuth, “Regional Queenslanders call for 'Quexit' over Adani”, in Brisbane Times:

But as the final results rolled in this week, eventually handing Mr Morison an unexpected majority and increased mandate, the northeastern state has faced mischievous calls for a "Quexit".

2019 May 25, Phil Mercer, “'Quexit': Australian Labor voters want Queensland expelled for backing Scott Morrison over climate policy”, in The Telegraph:

(Australia, politics) The secession or expulsion of the state of Queensland from Australia.


unrepresentative swill

Coined by then-Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating in a parliamentary address on 4 November 1992. Some sources state he used the phrase earlier, in 1989.

Then you want a Minister from the House of Representatives chamber to wander over to the unrepresentative chamber and account for himself. You have got to be joking. Whether the Treasurer wished to go there or not, I would forbid him going to the Senate to account to this unrepresentative swill over there… [interjections] where you are into a political stunt.

1992 November 4, Paul Keating, “QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: Loan Council Arrangements”, in parliamentary debates (House of Representatives), page 2,547:

Actually, the best part of the unrepresentative swill being reduced to a rubber stamp is all of those wonderful lefty whinges will be shown to be lies.

2004 November 10, L'acrobat, “Australian Design Standards ( Helmets )”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet), message-ID <vAhkd.30973$K7.11382@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:

It's a shame this is the final season of the misadventures of embattled lawyer turned member of the unrepresentative swill Cleaver Greene (Richard Roxburgh).

2018 September 16, Bridget McManus, “TV picks: Sunday, September 16”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 2020-02-04:

While the deterrent of by-elections has forced Morrison's lower house ministers to retire ahead of an all-but-certain return to opposition, those in the Senate can take a wait-and-see approach. While Steve Ciobo, Michael Keenan and Christopher Pyne have already bowed out (along with former ministers Julie Bishop – who didn't even bother with her usual cocktail party – and Craig Laundy), the Nationals' Senate Leader Nigel Scullion is the sole declared Cabinet refugee of the unrepresentative swill.

2019 April 2, Joe Aston, Myriam Robin, “Federal budget 2019: A tale of two treasurers”, in The Australian Financial Review, archived from the original on 2020-02-04:

(Australian politics, humorous, sometimes derogatory) The Australian Senate or its members.


Waxit

Blend of WA (“Western Australia”) + exit, patterned after Brexit and Grexit.

blend

(Australian politics) The secession of Western Australia from the nation of Australia, forming a separate country.


microparty

But in the upcoming state elections in the state of Victoria, where residents endured months of lockdown, the effects of Covid-19 restrictions may yet make themselves felt, with anti-restriction microparties — such as the Angry Victorians Party and the Restore Democracy Sack Dan Andrews Party — hoping to appear on the ballot.

2022 August 26, Natasha Frost, “The Long Tail of Covid-19 Disinformation”, in The New York Times:

(chiefly Australian politics) A very small political party.


Bjelkemander

Blend of Bjelke + gerrymander, named after Australian politician Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

named-after

(Australian politics) The intentional malapportionment of votes in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s.


faceless man

Coined by Australian journalist Alan Reid in 1963 in The Daily Telegraph.

coin

(Australian politics, informal) Someone who is not elected to political office, but exerts power over political affairs from behind the scenes.


Invasion Day

From the fact that Australia Day, which commemorated the beginning British colonization, also marks the invasion and oppression against Aboriginals.

(derogatory, typically in Aboriginal use) Australia Day.


Menzian

en-adj

Menzian (comparative more Menzian, superlative most Menzian)

more Menzian (comparative)
most Menzian (superlative)

It is also his considered opinion that a condition precedent to any legislative action is that those best qualified to pronounce on the merits of a popular demand examine it in all its aspects. That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.

1937 October 9, Smith's Weekly, Sydney, page 12, column 1:

(Australian politics) In the style or manner of former Australian centre-right politician and Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, the founder of the Liberal Party.


Hansonist

Someone who supports Hansonism, the political ideology of Pauline Hanson.


Baiame

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A creator and sky deity


Baiame

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Baiame


Yhi

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) The Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay female personification of the Sun


Nungeena

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Nungeena


Harmoo

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Harmoo (An evil creator deity, antagonist of Baiame.)


Tya

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Personification of Earth.


Bunjil

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A male creator spirit in the form of a wedge-tailed eagle


Bunjil

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Bunjil


Punjel

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Alternative spelling of Bunjil


Ularu

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A primordial snake-like creator deity


Bahloo

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) The Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay personification of the Moon.


Bahloo

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) Bahloo


Tasexit

Blend of Tasmania + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.

Ahead of the state's upcoming election, the Liberal government has pledged to pull Tasmania's pricing structure from the National Electricity Market if it is elected as part of its 'Tasmania First' policy, in a move being dubbed 'Tasexit'.

2018 February 5, Cole Latimer, “Tasmania wants to leave the national grid as part of 'Tasexit'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

The 'Tasexit' is part of the Liberal Government's Tasmania First philosophy where local generators would not be given full freedom to sell electricity generated in Tasmania to other states.

2018 February 7, Mike Carabott, “Tasmania's Liberal Government will pull out of National Energy Market if re-elected”, in Leading Edge Energy:

(Australian politics) The secession or expulsion of the state of Tasmania from Australia or another Australian Government initiative.


jewel in the Liberal crown

(Australian politics, historical) Victoria, a state of Australia.


jewel in the Liberal crown

en-noun

jewel in the Liberal crown (plural jewels in the Liberal crown)

(Australian politics) Any state where the Liberal Party has a large supporter base (currently used to refer to Queensland and Tasmania).


teal independent

teal independent (plural teal independents)

Such politicians generally used the colour teal, interpreted by some journalists as a blend of the green of the environmental movement and the blue of the Liberal Party.

(Australian politics) An independent politician who espouses environmentally and socially progressive but economically conservative ideas, especially in the context of a group of independent candidates who ran in the 2022 federal election.


order paper

(Commonwealth) the daily agenda of a Westminster system legislature


Voice

(Australian politics) The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal


Liberal Nationals

(Australian politics, informal, Queensland) The Liberal National Party of Queensland


Liberal National

Liberal National (plural Liberal Nationals)

(Australian politics) A supporter of the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP).


Liberal National Party

(Australian politics) A centre-right, liberal conservative and agrarian political party in Queensland, one of the two major parties in Queensland (affiliated with both the Liberal Party and the National Party)


One Nation

national conservative
national conservative

(Australian politics) Ellipsis of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a right-wing populist and national conservative political party in Australia, founded by right-wing Queensland politician Pauline Hanson.


NEG

National Energy Guarantee
w:National Energy Guarantee

(Australian politics) Initialism of National Energy Guarantee.


Neg

Guardian Australia understands the Liberal states have caucused, and they want the newly elected Morrison government to reboot the Neg, or something very like it.

2019 June 21, Katharine Murphy, “Australia's energy future: the real power is not where you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Australian politics) Alternative letter-case form of NEG


Howard's battlers

Named after former Prime Minister John Howard, the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister, winning four consecutive elections. Howard led the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition to a landslide victory in the 1996 federal election over Paul Keating's Labor government, which was widely credited with Howard's appeal with "battlers" (ordinary Australians, typically working-class or lower-middle-class).

(Australia, politics, usually in the plural) Alternative form of battler


the Massachusetts of Australia

Coined by former Prime Minister John Howard after the Coalition's landslide defeat to the state Labor government of Premier Daniel Andrews at the 2018 Victorian state election. Howard referred to Victoria as "the Massachusetts of Australia", in reference to both states being progressive and left-leaning. In response, after the Andrews government was re-elected at the 2022 state election, in his victory speech, Andrews referred to Massachusetts as "the Victoria of the United States".