{"id":4300,"date":"2011-11-25T06:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2011-11-25T06:59:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:59:18","slug":"a-note-on-the-noalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/11\/a-note-on-the-noalition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on the Noalition"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been some suggestion floating around in recent days – (particularly on Twitter) – that it was I who coined the phrase “Noalition” that was used by Anthony Albanese in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, to describe the opposition coalition, and their “negative” behaviour.<\/p>\n

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As much as I would love to – (and easily could) – play along and let people keep thinking that I thought it up, I’m too honest for that.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is I don’t know who coined it. I saw it used on Twitter last week, but now cannot find the original tweet – it’s either been deleted, or Twitter isn’t letting me search far enough back for it.<\/p>\n

It does appear that I am responsible for spreading it around online enough that it came to Albanese’s attention on Tuesday, and I guess that is something I can hang my hat on.<\/p>\n

For the record, I’m traditionally a conservative voter, but I find the current opposition almost impossible to support. Constant negativity is not the way to drive policy forward in Australia.<\/p>\n

Equally for the record, I didn’t coin “Noalition”.<\/p>\n

But it’s funny, and I love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been some suggestion floating around in recent days – (particularly on Twitter) – that it was I who coined the phrase “Noalition” that was used by Anthony Albanese in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, to describe the opposition coalition, and their “negative” behaviour. As much as I would love to – (and easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[100,383],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-auspol","tag-noalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}