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Stephanie Gardiner

'Happy voting': country bake sales warm up rural voters

Bake sales and cake stalls are as ubiquitous as the Democracy Sausage on election day. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

When Australia's first prime minister Edmund Barton took office in 1901, the little school in Borenore had already been teaching rural kids for 25 years.

On Saturday, voters in the central western NSW village braved a 12C morning to cast their ballots at the historic school to help form the 48th parliament.

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