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Aussie Life

Aussie Language

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

26 February 2022

9:00 AM

A small award should be presented to the Australian’s Alice Workman for her new coinage. She has given us a word to describe the current sham election campaign being run by both Labor and the Coalition at full tilt. She is calling it a shampaign. Well, done Alice. Unfortunately it only works in print, not spoken aloud.

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