Where to vote: Overheard at polling booths on election day

Whereas individuals are casting their preferences – be it for his or her Member of Parliament, Senate consultant, or decide of the sausage sizzle or cake stall – we’ve bought the perfect titbits overheard at colleges, city halls, church buildings, neighborhood halls and public areas throughout the nation.

In case you’ve heard some cracking one-liners or weird feedback tweet us @newscomauHQ or ship us a message on Fb. Moreover, in case you’ve but to vote, yow will discover your nearest polling sales space in our interactive information right here.

– Overheard within the line at Rozelle Public College in Anthony Albanese’s citizens of Grayndler: “‘With the way in which inflation’s going it is likely to be $6 by the point we get to the entrance’. This was with reference to a democracy sausage sizzle being $5 a snag, mad costs for a slice of democracy in case you ask me.”

– Signal of the occasions: “Have they got faucet for the sausage sizzle?”

– The wrestle of being a Kiwi in Australia on election day: The dialog I’ve everytime I’m going close to a polling sales space and get requested to vote, I inform them: ‘No thanks,’ adopted by: ‘I can’t legally vote, I’m from New Zealand’. They then say: ‘Oh wow, why are you over in Australia when you’ve got an incredible lady in energy?’” – Amy.

– Introducing a brief collection we’d prefer to name: ‘Solely in Bondi,’ a beachside polling sales space noticed not only one however two punters (not less than) who turned up in budgie smugglers. Sydney’s wet climate and 17C temperatures be damned.

– Unsolicited suggestions: “At my polling sales space, a man simply walked previous the United Australia Get together signal and mentioned to nobody specifically: ‘Vote for freedom? I assumed Australia was free? Dumb f***s’”

– A number of from the polling sales space at Glenbrook Public College within the Blue Mountains:

“I ponder how a lot these folks receives a commission to work right this moment?” and “Your spouse is a home goddess”.

– Overheard as a Labor volunteer makes an attempt to provide a pamphlet to a voter: “I’m not voting for Anthony Albanese, he’s not like Harry Potter, he can’t forged a spell over me.”

– One other pitiful sausage evaluate of the democracy sausage state of affairs:

– Glass half full: “Election day. Is perhaps a ache within the arse however we have now bought to do it. It’s good as a result of as soon as I vote I can go have some beers.” (Overheard at Leichhardt in Sydney’s Internal West)

– One other quip from Sydney’s Internal West: “There was an absence of sausage so there should be an absence of democracy right here in Annandale”.

– An artist has staged a public viewing of a statue of Prime Minister Scott Morrison that’s partly made out of coal. Creator Jill Stark shared a photograph of the #CoalMo piece which was positioned at a polling sales space within the Melbourne suburb of Prahran which is at the moment occupied by Greens member Sam Hibbins.

“Partly made from coal and possibly simpler than our present Prime Minister,” she tweeted.

– A pleasant native punter capturing the present sentiment: “Let’s get this over and performed with.”

– Whereas this isn’t an overheard per se, these “democracy sausage canine” do ease the (politically) drained and weary soul.

– Overheard in Penrith (a suburb in Better Western Sydney): “What day is it right this moment?”

– A dialog between a voter and revered sausage sizzle employees:

“Anybody desire a sausage whereas they wait?”

“Can we eat it as we wait?”

“I don’t have an issue with it”

Overheard one thing nice? Electronic mail me at jessica.wang@information.com.au

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