leadership spill

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leadership spill (plural leadership spills)

  1. (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.
    • 1976, Laurie Oakes, Crash Through Or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister, page 41:
      Despite claims by the Snedden forces that the rebels had managed to muster no more than 14 votes for a leadership 'spill', the result in the secret ballot had in fact been very close.

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