The Macquarie Dictionary committee selected the noun from a shortlist of 19 words, including 'spicy cough', 'skin hunger', 'Barbiecore', 'hidden homeless', and 'quiet quitting'.
HAF described the advertisement as “racist, un-American, anti-Indian profiling/trolling” by a federal agency and said it should “shock our nation’s collective conscience”.
Patel’s death has left his family, friends and colleagues facing the loss of a man whose final journey home was meant to be an ordinary part of his day.
