Election 2025: The 20 best photos you’ll see this election campaign

Politics is all about perception. So can how you’re photographed demolishing a democracy sausage really swing it for a pollie in the polls?

Politics is all about perception. So can how you’re photographed demolishing a democracy sausage really swing it for a pollie in the polls?

From Bill Shorten’s now infamous sideways sausage munch to Tony Abbott’s eye-watering onion chomp, MPs from either side of the political spectrum agree on this one issue. That image can make or break you.

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten eats that sausage sandwich in Sydney in 2016.

A younger PM chomps into a democracy sausage in 2019.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton is a Dagwood Dog man.

Our PMs past and present had differing views of decorum when it comes to the do’s and don’ts of eating a pie. Here's Julia Gillard and Scott Morrison chowing down.

Tony Abbott and his infamous onion moment.

Jacqui Lambie grabs a traditional election day sausage. Picture: Simon Sturzaker

Paul Keating tucks into a sandwich during campaigning in 1993.

Mark Latham chows down in Queensland.

Lengendary Labor PM Bob Hawke loved the iconic meat pie.

John Howard sticks some sauce on his sausage during the 1998 Federal election campaign.

Kim Beazley tucks into a sausage at a BBQ during the 2001 campaign in Sydney.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is seen eating a meat pie during a stop on the One Nation 'Battler Bus' tour in 2017.

Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian eating a sausage in a roll while then Opposition leader Michael Daley devours a plain pie at the 2019 poll.

Then deputy PM Barnaby Joyce grabs a pie at a bakery in Merriwa during campaigning in 2016.

Malcolm Turnbull and his sausage roll. Picture: Jason Edwards

Former NSW Premier Bob Carr gets saucy with his meat pie at Garlo's Pies in Maroubra during campaigning.

Then Treasurer Josh Frydenberg goes all posh, eating a rock lobster in 2021.

Labor’s Defence Minister Richard Marles discussing the merits of a good sausage.

Originally published as Election 2025: The 20 best photos you’ll see this election campaign