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Niki Savva, racist? Blame Menzies

6 November 2016

8:30 PM

6 November 2016

8:30 PM

nikisavva002“Political columnist Niki Savva is copping criticism after using the expression ‘killed a Chinaman’ on television,” Buzzfeed, the politics website for the pre-pubescent, reports today after this morning’s Insiders.

“According to The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,” Buzzfeed continues, “‘must have killed a Chinaman’ is a colonial Australian expression for back luck.”

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