Australia federal election 2025 live: Dutton and Albanese cast votes; polling stations get creative with democracy sausages | Australian election 2025

Dutton and Albanese cast votes

Prime minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton have both lodged their votes.

Dutton voted in his seat of Dickson at the Albany Creek state school in Brisbane with his wife, Kirilly, and sons, Harry and Tom. He’s held the seat since 2001.

Albanese was joined by his partner, Jodie, and son, Nathan, at a primary school in Marrickville, Sydney. The polling station is in his seat, Grayndler, which he’s held since 1996.

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Trying the Uber Eats democracy sausage

Caitlin Cassidy

For the first time this federal election, Uber Eats is allowing customers in certain cities to order Democracy Sausages to their door, for “hardworking Australians” who “find themselves without access to a sausage” on 3 May.

Only certain parts of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney have access to the promo, with $3.50 for every sausage donated to Australian Red Cross Partners.

Unfortunately, Rafqa Touma was outside of the delivery zone, and was instead offered a bulk package of uncooked sausages. Not really the same. I ordered a meat sausage with onion and sauce and a vegetarian sausage from the “Democracy Sausage Store” for $15.96, delivery included.

It took less than half an hour to arrive, in green boxes labelled “democracy sausage delivered”. Inside was, unsurprisingly, a piece of white bread with a sausage, sauces in sachets and a ballot paper that ticked preferences for sauces, onion and variety of sausage. “Exercise your democratic bite”, the box told me.

The meat sausage tasted like a cold meat sausage. The vegetarian sausage tasted like sawdust. I gave the leftovers to my dog, who lapped it up eagerly and stained his snout with mustard.