Democracy sausage: it's Australia's word of 2016, says national dictionary centre

The barbecued snag, bought at a polling booth on election day, beat ‘smashed avo’ and ‘census fail’ to define the year

Oxford gave us “post-truth”; Merriam-Webster’s is set to be “fascism”; in Australia, the word of 2016 is “democracy sausage”.

The barbecued snag, bought at a polling booth sausage sizzle on election day, beat out “smashed avo” and “census fail” to define the year, following a mammoth eight-week election campaign.

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