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slide slídě
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Etymology
en landslide.
Suffix
en informal Australia politics An overwhelming or surprising victory by the group or individual specified.
en Adam Bandt Adam Bandt https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=322665486695072 SBS News 22 May 2022 It was a Greenslide. This is the best result for the Greens in our history.
en George Megalogenis George Megalogenis Why the nation’s politicians will be watching the vote in Victoria https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-the-nation-s-politicians-will-be-watching-the-vote-in-victoria-20221117-p5bz4a.html Sydney Morning Herald 19 November 2022 Fast-forward to 2022, and that particular pattern repeated in Brisbane where the Greens picked up three federal seats – two from the Liberal National Party and one from Labor. It could also be seen in the tealslide against the Liberals in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
en 25 March 2024 Mark Coulton Mark Coulton Federation Chamber - STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS - Member for Parkes Australian House of Representatives House of Representatives 2,286 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/27620/&sid=0321 I was elected in the Ruddslide of 2007, and by the time the next election comes around, I will have served for 17 years.
en Guy Rundle At the heart of the Payman pile-on lies a fundamental failure of imagination https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/10/fatima-payman-labor-political-imagination-multiculturalism/ Crikey 10 July 2024 She has been a teenage Laborista, an early leader, and won the unlikely third place in the 2022 West Australian Laborslide. https://web.archive.org/web/20250725033916/https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/07/10/fatima-payman-labor-political-imagination-multiculturalism/ 25 July 2025