Courtney Dawson

• The election is on the first good beach weather day of the year. The election is on the last good beach weather day of the year. There will be no more good days.

• You line up at the local primary school to vote. When you pass through the gates, you realise it’s the primary school you went to as a child, even though you’ve never lived in this area, or any area. Your teacher from Year One tuts disapprovingly, and pushes a blue cloth hat onto your head. “No hat no vote” she hisses.

• A fight breaks out between volunteers from Young Labor and Young Liberals, bedecked in suits of corflute armour. The instigators are dragged out of sight. The Sausage Sizzle will not run out of snags today.

• The fresh-faced AEC worker’s hand shakes as he crosses your name out in the huge book in front of him. He will not meet your eyes.

• The ballot for the Lower House asks you to number all the boxes in order of preference. The ballot for the Upper House is the size of a tarpaulin and asks you, in a terrifying deep voice you can only hear in your mind, to solve an ancient mathematical problem written in cuneiform and runes. The bodies of those who have failed are wrapped in their ballot sheets and piled next to the cardboard voting booths as a warning to others.

• You cast your vote. You cast your vote into the ocean, hoping it will drown. A new electorate forms beneath the waves, ruled by Harold Holt.

• News reports come in of polling booths without sausage sizzles. Riots break out over the country as voters, hungry and disenfranchised, take to the streets to voice their anger.

EXTRA CHARACTERS are $5 in black and white commissions,  $10 in colour! 

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