Where are Brisbane’s vegan democracy sausages

Vegans vote and on election day there are four confirmed Brisbane polling booth fundraisers offering plant-powered democracy sausages. Can you guess where they are?

VEGANS vote and on election day there are four confirmed Brisbane polling booth fundraisers offering plant-powered democracy sausages.

They are: Mitchelton State School and Toowong Uniting Church in the Ryan electorate, Aspley East State School in Lilley and Petrie, and St Ita’s Catholic Primary School in Griffith.

Mitchelton State School is not only offering vegan snags and cakes, on top of the usual meat sausages and cakes fare, but also gluten free, dairy free, nut free and egg free options.

The school’s P&C is also offering all its goods in low-waste packaging, like recycled cereal boxes, that avoids plastic and cling wrap.

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Vegan Society of Queensland president Rico Andrade welcomed the booths that were including vegan options for hungry voters.

“The most important thing is you might go and have to wait to vote, you might be there for half an hour and skipped breakfast, you might be hungry,” he said.

“It makes it easier for them (vegans) to go to vote and eat something.”

There will be vegan and omni options for voters at the May 18 election polling booths. Picture: FILE

PLANT-BASED PROTEIN AND FIRST PREFERENCES

But does the availability of plant-based protein at these polling booths give any indication of the politics of the nearby population?

Most the polling booths with vegan sausages on sale had a higher percentage of first preference votes for the Greens than the national result at the 2016 Federal Election.

Nationally, the Coalition won 41.8 per cent of first preferences, the Australian Labor Party garnered 34.73 per cent and The Greens 10.23 per cent.

RYAN

In Ryan, the LNP’s Jane Prentice won with 52.13 per cent of the primary vote, Labor’s Stephen Hegedus had 22.79 per cent, and The Greens’ Sandra Bayley was on 18.75 per cent.

At Toowong Uniting Church, Ms Prentice polled 43.37 per cent and Ms Bayley got 25.78 per cent, slightly edging out Mr Hegedus who won 24.69 per cent of the vote.

The Mitchelton State School polling booth voters gave 44.28 per cent of first preferences to Ms Prentice, 31.04 per cent to Mr Hegedus and 16.18 per cent to Ms Bayley.

Some fancy vegan sausages. Source: Supplied.

GRIFFITH

Terri Butler only had 33.18 per cent of the primary vote in Griffith, but won the seat after The Greens’ Karen Anderson’s 17.08 per cent of first preference votes flowed to her.

LNP candidate Fiona Ward won 41 per cent of the primary vote.

At the St Ita’s Catholic Primary School polling booth, Ms Butler won 35.08 per cent of the primary vote, followed by Ms Ward on 30.44 per cent and Ms Anderson on 26.40 per cent.

LILLEY AND PETRIE

The Aspley East State School polling booth is the only booth with vegan snags that had a lower Green vote than the national result — and it is a joint polling booth for Lilley and Petrie.

Wayne Swan won Lilley decisively for the ALP in 2016 with 43.49 per cent of first preference votes.

LNP candidate David Kingston had 39.05 per cent of first preferences followed by The Greens’ Claire Ogden with 11.58 per cent.

The polling booth’s results for Lilley show Mr Swan polled 44.19 per cent of the primary vote, followed by Mr Kingston with 40.79 per cent and Ms Ogden on 9.49 per cent.

In 2016, the LNP’s Luke Howarth won Petrie with 44.7 per cent of the primary vote, followed by the ALP’s Jacqui Pedersen on 38.38 per cent and The Greens’ Sue Weber on 7.37 per cent.

The Petrie results for Aspley East State School show an even higher first preference vote for Mr Howarth at 47.96 per cent, while Ms Pedersen won 38.54 per cent and Ms Weber on 7.88 per cent.