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Aussie Life

Aussie Language

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

When Extinction Rebellion vandalised Parliament House they were engaging in ‘stuntism’— a word that was coined by Mark Latham. When I contacted Mark he told me he had been re-reading Peter Walsh’s memoirs and saw Peter’s use of the term ‘stunting’ which he then adapted to ‘stuntism’. So, this is definitely Mark Latham’s coinage.

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