What did you pay for your democracy sausage?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨StorminNorman@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

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

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orhtej2@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For a foreigner browsing ‘All’ : what’s a ‘democracy sausage’?

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- coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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!
  
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  - Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨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…
    
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- lulztard@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thank you, I immediately went from "the fuck?" to "ugh, 'muricans", then I saw the magazine and got actually interested.
  
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  - palitu@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t quite understand, I couldn’t see a magazine.
    
    Just to be sure, it is an Aussie thing…
    
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  - Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    to “ugh, 'muricans”
    
    We are increasingly America-lite, after all…
    
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- EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨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
  
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  - Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3.50 and Voted # YES

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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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?

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- zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Polling booths are usually in a school or some other community facility. At schools, the sausage sizzle and/or cake stalls are usually run by the school’s P&C (Parents and Citizens association) as a fundraiser.
  
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- StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sweet baby Jesus…
  
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  - Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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  - Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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- phonyphanty@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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
  
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  - captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3.50, with onions and sauce on cafe cut (thick) white bread.

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- Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  nice worth it for the bread
  
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Reonn@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A referendum without democracy sausages is a referendum not worth having.

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Drusenija@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$2.50 at our local polling booth, or $4 with a can of drink as well. Onions included for free if you wanted them. And they had card facilities.

Only downside was they had obviously cooked a batch earlier and were just keeping them warm so they’d cooled a bit by the time we got there. Still, got my democracy sausage and voted, so all good in the end!

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TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Voted around 8am, they was still closed. I guess 8am is perfect time for a sausage.

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NonDollarCurrency@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “even bother”…
  
  Hmmmm as someone heavily involved in my school’s P&C, it’s hard work just getting people to help out, let alone actually organising, buying supplies and running the BBQ.
  
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  - Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s kinda crazy how entitled people are about the “democracy sausage” now. Not just complaining about whether or not it exists at their polling booth, but also complaining about pricing as if this is some takeaway restaurant and not a local fundraiser.
    
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Oaksey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Also $3.50

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ralim@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3 at the local public school nearby here.

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- 50MYT@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  $3 for a sausage (my first ever democracy sausage today!)
  
  Also $3 for a donut. It was legit amazing actually
  
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  - Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    People are sleeping on the baked goods.
    
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Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨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!?

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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?

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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- trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  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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- Tau@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  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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- Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  $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
  
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  - Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you for answering the important questions!
    
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- TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  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.
  
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  - ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “enshrine” 🙄
    
    Spoken like a racist.
    
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- Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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- JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s not just to recognise them, they are already recognised. It’s to give them preferential treatment, also called ‘positive discrimination’.
  
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  - thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No they are not, and notit does not. Dumbass
    
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WUED@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m reading this from the UK. We need the democracy sausage.

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kerr@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$2.50. Gluten free bread was 50c extra but I think they forgot to charge us for that.

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Whoa you get sausage when you vote? All I ever get is a dumb sticker that says I voted. :(

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- FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We don’t even get a sticker over here, as if the polls themselves weren’t depressing enough…
  
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Cypher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3.50 with onions but sadly the bread was a bit stale.

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veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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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Marin_Rider@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They were $3.50 but you could get a drink as well for $5 which was OK

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dns@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3 or 2 for $5

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dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Freedom isn’t free.

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