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unrepresentative swill

unrepresentative swill noun: the Australian Senate or its members.

Noun

unrepresentative swill (uncountable)

  1. (Australian, derogatory, humorous, sometimes) The Australian Senate or its members.
    • 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...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>

Examples of unrepresentative swill in a sentence

  • 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)...
  • 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 04 Feb...

Origin of 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.

Questions about unrepresentative swill

What does unrepresentative swill mean?
Unrepresentative swill means the Australian Senate or its members.
How do you use unrepresentative swill in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is unrepresentative swill?
Unrepresentative swill is a noun.

Words near unrepresentative swill in the dictionary

  1. unrepresent
  2. unrepresentability
  3. unrepresentable
  4. unrepresentation
  5. unrepresentative
  6. unrepresentative swill
  7. unrepresentatively
  8. unrepresentativeness
  9. unrepresented
  10. unrepresentedness
  11. unrepressed

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