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Democracy Sausage Sizzle

Text reads, 'Democracy Sausage Sizzle.' At a barbeque, Labor politicians are annoyed at Greens MP Adam Bandt. Bandt says, 'Okay… so it's kale and quinoa salad again… think of the planet!'

A friendly backyard barbie, complete with sizzling snags: what could be more Australian? So Australian, in fact, that getting a sausage at the local school on election day has become a tradition and earned its own moniker: the ‘democracy sausage’. Dean Alston suggests that relations between the Greens and Labor could be strained at the next election, especially if Adam Bandt continues to call for a freeze on all new coal, oil and gas projects and to accuse Labor of being ‘addicted’ to gas company donations.