Criticism of the Federal Government and its bureaucracy.
the opposition knows that Canberra bashing goes down a treat with most Australians
Example sentencesExamples
- I raise these examples not as a partisan political attack or as a Canberra-bashing exercise.
- His four years in the capital began by being subjected to Canberra bashing by friends in Sydney and Melbourne.
- Others too readily fell back on Canberra bashing as a political creed.
- Canberra-bashing would be a thing of the past under Labor, he argued.
- He saw Canberra-bashing as an electoral plus in a state with traditional anti-Canberra views.
- It was an era of 'domestic disputes' and territorial claims, a variant of tiresome Canberra bashing.
- Such accounts make entertaining reading, and might be consigned to the role of useful ammunition for that well-known Australian sport of 'Canberra bashing'.
- They took a "Canberra-bashing" position on environmental and other centralist issues.
- He was engaged in Canberra bashing to cover the disunity and bitterness among the government parties.
- There is not a tradition of Canberra-bashing from this side.