Words & TermsPolitics and public life
Canberra bubble
The supposedly insular world of federal politics, media and bureaucracy in Canberra.
In a sentence
Outside Canberra, the decision was dismissed as thinking from inside the Canberra bubble.
Where it came from
The expression has a stable Australian political-discourse meaning and has been prominent enough for dictionary/word-of-year discussion.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established