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#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️Member for Reid, Sally Sitou, joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social and @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss her political journey, migration, grievance politics and areas of reform needed to improve social cohesion.

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February 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
anothercapewell.bsky.social
Dear Americans,

If you actually get another election… please vote!

Love Australia,

where we’ve made voting an excuse for a bbq sausage sandwich!😃

#democracysausage
February 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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How has the preferential voting system masked the decline of the major parties and why is the decline worse for the Liberals and Nationals? 🗳️

#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ @shaunratcliff.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social 👉 ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...
February 5, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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#DemocracySausage @markgkenny.bsky.social Next time can you give the guest a decent microphone please??
Huge fan of the show. Cheers.
Realignment of Australian Politics
Podcast Episode · Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny · 03/02/2026 · 55m
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February 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
commonendeavour.bsky.social
But Carney is quick to warn of the reciprocal dangers of disconnection.

“A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable.”

So instead, Canada will create "a dense web of connections across trade, investment, culture”.

#AusPol #Connection #DemocracySausage
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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#ICYMI #DemocracySausage🎙️ Political scientist @jillesheppard.bsky.social joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss the politicisation of a tragedy and the deep divisions within the federal coalition and conservative parties in Australia.

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January 27, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Look what they had back in stock at Woolies today! Looking forward to getting home from an arvo out with friends and frying up one of these bad boys. :DemocracySausage:
Impossible Sausage in a package.
January 25, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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"The bill makes a suite of changes, including ending same-day voter enrolment, banning prisoner voting, changes to treating on Election Day and expanding anonymous political donation limits."

#NZPol #NZElection #Democracy #DemocracySausage

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Electoral Amendment Bill: Submitters want fewer restrictions, more sausages
The government's Electoral Amendment Bill has faced a deluge of criticism as submissions were heard at Parliament on Thursday.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
ristinraccoon.bsky.social
Also #DemocracySausage FTW!
December 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ @jksocrates.bsky.social joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social & @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss the year that was, an historic election victory, the vexed question of political authority, and declining trust in major parties.

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December 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️@frankbongiorno.bsky.social joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social & @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss the year that was, a landslide federal election victory, the rise of Teal and independent politicians and the split in the conservative Coalition.

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December 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
commonendeavour.bsky.social
What's Common Endeavour about?

Help us get the word out!

www.commonendeavour.org

#connection #auspol #DemocracySausage
Common Endeavour is online www.commonendeavour.org Help us get the word out! Find out and share what’s important to us; how we think; how to be part of what we’re doing
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
commonendeavour.bsky.social
What's Common Endeavour about?

Connection. Not always easy but important.

Political parties are important too - but don't always do a lot to help connection.

The goal of Common Endeavour is to to be a party focused on the importance of connection.

#connection #auspol #DemocracySausage
Common Endeavour Is about connection . Connection with each other between our communities with the world around us Common Endeavour recognises that connection isn’t always easy, and yet... Connection is how we thrive is how we stay safe is the reason for Common Endeavour Common Endeavour believes that... Political parties are important to how we live together; provide a vehicle for working out and doing what’s important to our communities; are not currently where we need them to be The goal of Common Endeavour is to become a party of government
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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📢 #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Independent ACT Senator David Pocock joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social and @markgkenny.bsky.social to challenge both major parties on climate policy, gambling reform and political transparency.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
commonendeavour.bsky.social
Not just in the United States?

www.apa.org/pubs/reports...

The crisis of connection is a defining feature of our times.

See also the Common Endeavour essay on loneliness.

journal.commonendeavour.org/loneliness/

#AusPol #DemocracySausage
Loneliness
Loneliness is a topic that's rarely discussed in polite company. Perhaps it sounds silly to tell someone whose presence you are literally in that you are lonely. In a world full of technology that can...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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📢 #ICYMI #AUListen #DemocracySausage In this special live recording from the 2025 Whitlam Symposium, @markgkenny.bsky.social hosts a star-studded panel discussing the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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How did Whitlam's government profoundly change Australia in less than three years despite being shambolic and scandal-prone?

#AUListen #DemocracySausage The vista of the new 🎙️Troy Bramston @markgkenny.bsky.social @marijataflaga.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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It’s always a Saturday in Australia.

And there are fundraising BBQ’s and cake stalls for the local schools at most polling places. #DemocracySausage
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Fascinating discussion on #TheDismissal, and historical what-ifs.

When Governor-General John Kerr dismissed Whitlam, Whitlam went back to The Lodge for lunch, and the Senate passed supply.

Paul Keating says he would have had Kerr arrested. #DemocracySausage #auspol
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The vista of the new | Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny
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November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
quick13.bsky.social
We really should have #DemocracySausage like Australia. It would be such a perfect day for each polling place to have a cookout tomorrow. #Minnesota #Election
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Jason Koutsoukis joins @markgkenny.bsky.social and @marijataflaga.bsky.social to examine Barnaby Joyce's political future and asks whether One Nation is really a viable option for the former Nationals leader.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Barnaby's gambit | Australian Studies Institute
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October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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No one wants to know how the #democracysausage is made

(Except in ireland where election counts are a multi-day, multi-media spectator sport)
juz.bsky.social Sinjut @juz.bsky.social · Oct 24
For example this location from the federal election earlier in the year in a progressive community.
Screenshot of DS website: Princes Hill Primary School280 Pigdon St, PRINCES HILL, VIC 3054 STALL Princes Hill Primary School BBQ, Coffee and Cakes The Princes Hill Primary School Council will be running a coffee stand and cake stall from 8am and BBQ from 9am to raise funds for the school. Vegan sausages available! On Offer sausage sizzle, cake stall, savoury vegetarian options, and coffee Stall Open 8am-4pm (unless sold out earlier)
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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How has Australia's recognition of Palestine exposed an 'iceberg adrift' in our society?

#ICYMI Tune in to the latest episode of #DemocracySausage: Two years after October 7

🎙️Dr Bob Bowker & Professor @markgkenny.bsky.social

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October 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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📌 #AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Author Virginia Haussegger joins @marijataflaga.bsky.social & @markgkenny.bsky.social to discuss her new book tracing fifty years of Australian feminism and ask why the revolution that began in 1975 remains unfinished.

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October 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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#AUListen #DemocracySausage 🎙️ Columnist Dr Jenna Price & economist Prof Sinclair Davidson join Dr @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Prof @markgkenny.bsky.social to dissect the crisis engulfing Australia's university sector and ask whether it can be fixed before it's too late.

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Democracy Sausage Episode: Universities in crisis | Australian Studies Institute
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September 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM