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  • Oxford Word of the Month – May: Spill

    spill – noun: the deliberate creation of vacant positions in a cabinet, political party, or organisation. In recent months in 2015, we have seen an attempt by Federal backbencher MPs of the Liberal Party to put forward a spill motion. Had this motion been successful, it would have led to a spill, where (in this…