I paid $3.50, but got free onions. Interested to hear what others paid.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    My local Polling station were preparing for a School Fetê, so they weren’t offering a Democracy Sausage.

    Curly potatoes, Hot Jam Donuts, Mr Whippy and Burnt Espresso are not valid alternatives to a Democracy Sausage, so I missed out.

    I went to Bunnings yesterday arvo and they had run out of Sausages.

    Looking at the Election results though, it appears that only about 50% of my neighbours identify with Racists, Nazis and Late-Stage Capitalists, so I guess that that is a good thing!?

  • TheHolm
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    Voted around 8am, they was still closed. I guess 8am is perfect time for a sausage.

  • sil
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    $2.50. Gluten free bread was 50c extra but I think they forgot to charge us for that.

    • @[email protected]
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      The drongo in the first pic doesn’t even have onions! After the no vote winning, I’m not sure I can also handle that picture being on the The wiki page!

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Onions do make Democracy Sausages taste better, but some people don’t like onions and some people can’t have onions.

        The whole point of Democracy is that we get to choose!

        Unless you want a Vegan sausage…

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I refuse to believe that that’s a real thing. It’s just aussies being aussies and messing with the rest of the world again. It’s that dropbear shit all over again

      • @[email protected]
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        How dare you, the dropbear is a deadly predator and this sort of misinformation costs dozens of tourists their lives every year!

        The democracy sausage underpins our nation, without it we’d have fallen to the commies.

    • lulztard
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      Thank you, I immediately went from “the fuck?” to “ugh, 'muricans”, then I saw the magazine and got actually interested.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t quite understand, I couldn’t see a magazine.

        Just to be sure, it is an Aussie thing…

          • @[email protected]
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            Ah, that makes so much more sense… I went looking for a pic of a mag on the wiki link… nothing!

            I was so confused, sorry for doubting you dear kbinner

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          As I was witheringly told by an American lecturer a decade ago when I bitched about Oz becoming the 51st state.

          “Don’t get too big for your boots son. The 51st state is Canada and if you’re lucky you might squeak in at 60 after we’ve sorted Puerto Rico, Guam Mexico and whichever Middle Eastern countries seem like a good idea”

  • veroxii
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    3.50 but was 2 slices of nice buttered bread and decent quality snag. Free onions too if you wanted. And sauce obviously. Could add an egg for 50c. We all actually commented how nice it was. Well worth it.

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    Mine was $3, but they had a sign up saying if you’re doing it tough they’ll reduce to $2. It of course included onion if desired.

    Drinks were $2.

    I was happy to have it at all. I emailed my OIC a day or two before and he said that our polling place probably wouldn’t have a sausage sizzle. I was very pleasantly surprised to see them setting up in the morning not long after we got there.

    • FireWire400
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      We don’t even get a sticker over here, as if the polls themselves weren’t depressing enough…

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    NZer chiming in here. I have so many questions.

    Is $3.50 a good price? That seems very expensive to me, I’d expect $2NZD, and occasionally $2.50NZD but that’s an expensive one.

    You mentioned getting free onions. Does this mean that onions are not always included? For my $2 I for sure expect onions are included if I want them. Do you have to pay extra for sauce as well?

    How do we get sausages at our polling booths in NZ?

    Is the referendum literally just to ask whether the constitution should recognise the First Peoples of Australia? Is there a good reason why the tally so far shows every state is voting no?

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      $2.50 used to be pretty standard a few years ago, i think ive seen $3.50 last election too. Onions are always included in a sausage sandwhich, but you can can choose to not have them (same price). They always ask. Sauce is usually free, itll be a table with tomato, BBQ and maybe mustard if its a fancy place you just squeeze on yourself

    • @[email protected]
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      The referendum was on whether to create and enshrine an advisory body with the power to make indigenous-focused representations to parliament.

      I suspect the referendum would have succeeded if it were purely to recognise Australia’s aboriginal people as being the first peoples of Australia.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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      Is the referendum literally just to ask whether the constitution should recognise the First Peoples of Australia? Is there a good reason why the tally so far shows every state is voting no?

      Racism

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      Is the referendum literally just to ask whether the constitution should recognise the First Peoples of Australia? Is there a good reason why the tally so far shows every state is voting no?

      Yeh. Most of Australian do not want to enshrine racism in constitution.

    • tau
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      Is the referendum literally just to ask whether the constitution should recognise the First Peoples of Australia?

      It was actually about whether the constitution should be changed to say there shall be a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, and that this body “may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”. Purely symbolic recognition would have had a much better chance of getting in IMO.

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    I thought it was free. So you guys buy it after to celebrate voting, or are there just a lot of people selling sausages near polls?

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m guessing you’re not from Aus. Weird to think that democracy snags are a purely Australian thing… If I didn’t eat a sausage after voting I don’t know what I’d do with myself. Our democracy might as well collapse

      • @[email protected]
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        As an American we get a sticker and get told to go back to work after we vote. No cake, no sausage, not even a bit of time off to do it.

        • @[email protected]
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          Our elections are always on a Saturday from 9am to 6pm. We also always have a few polling stations open for two weeks before voting day so you can vote early if you can’t make it on the official date.

          We have to vote. We get a $100 fine if we don’t.

      • @[email protected]
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        My girlfriend (who is not an Australian citizen and has never had to vote here) thought exactly the same thing. She was asking me if I could get free lemon slices again after I voted today.

      • @[email protected]
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        In my defence, I’ve read lots about Australian democracy sausage and how every polling station has one so I just thought it was a part of the volunteering process of Australian democracy.

        Also, this is the first time I’m reading about prices for it, so I thought I’d have heard about it being paid before. I also thought it was a cheap sausage.

          • @[email protected]
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            No I thought the like the sausage is cheap for the person giving it out since it’s bought in bulk, subsidised and of basic quality.

            • @[email protected]
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              Definitely not subsidised in any way. This is roughly equivalent to a US “bake sale” where the school P&C or a sporting organisation sells them as a fundraiser. The govt has zero involvement. It’s purely citizen driven.

              Yes they’re usually fairly cheap/low quality snags though