Democracy sausage — How Australia put snags on the ballot

03/05/2025 28 min
Democracy sausage — How Australia put snags on the ballot

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Episode Synopsis


Australians don't always see eye to eye on election day, but there is one unprepossessing foodstuff that seems to straddle divides of age, geography, ideology and class: the sausage. How did the humble sausage come to be the food that fuels election days in Australia, with its name now synonymous with the democratic act?