List Of Words Not For Parliament
Australia is in line with the Italian Chamber of Deputies in having a lot of injurious epithets barred in debate. The Australian House of Representatives in Canberra has a long list of words and phrases ruled out of order in the course of years.
Examples:—A sausage skin filled with wind and water and painted like a Chinese god, jabbering nincompoop, jackal, blood-drinker, miserable body-snatcher, cowardly dirty fool, sewer rat, fraud* brute, bully, cad, bounder, gas-bag, imposter, Minister’s lapdog, mongrel, party hack, slippery eel, sneak—or "my winey friend.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 43, 12 May 1950, Page 5
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93List Of Words Not For Parliament Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 43, 12 May 1950, Page 5
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