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The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it is.

I just had a quick look because I thought the Australian term would pre-date the american one but it doesn't aparently we copied it from you.

It should've been Medicaus or mediroo or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm a little surprised. Wow. But it does seem to be older. 41 years according to wikipedia. Looks like it was the yanks who copied it ;)