Celebrities vote and eat sausages and cakes on Election Day

They spend their lives skipping queues and avoiding life’s other mundane tasks.

But on Election Day celebrities fronted polling booths around Australia to do their civic duty, helping themselves to sausages and XNova cupcakes or even helping hand out how to vote cards.

Nicole Kidman was photographed out with daughters Faith Margaret, seven, and Sunday Rose, five, at their school’s fair, which also hosted a busy polling place.

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The Hollywood star opted for a casual chic ensemble as she made her way past the cake stalls, sausage sizzle stands and raffle sellers.

It was not clear if Nicole voted on the spot, chose a quieter booth earlier in the day, or avoided it altogether by postal voting as she rubbed shoulders with those waiting in line.

Channel Nine presenter, Rebecca Judd, took her daughter Billie to her local polling booth in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton and even bought her a cupcake.

The former model posted a snap of the two-year-old happily holding her colourful treat that used marshmallows to make it look like a bunny’s face with ears and a nose.

‘Polling booth treats to be had in Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighton darl,’ she wrote next to the shot shared with her 499,000 Instagram followers.

Actor Sam Neill was snapped in Double Bay helping out Labor candidate for Wentworth, Evan Hughes, by handing out ‘how to vote’ cards.

The 68-year-old was photographed by passers-by posing with other volunteers with a stack of pamphlets in his hands.

The Kiwi-born star gave a big smile behind his greying beard and in another photo engaged in some playful banter with a Malcolm Turnbull supporter.

Weekend Today Host, Deborah Knight, got up earlier that even the most keen 8am voter, sharing a post of herself and colleagues Jayne Azzopardi and Natalaia Cooper in the studio.

‘Happy Election Day to you!@jayneazzo @sjweather and I on a coffee high. Bring on the Election Day snags,’ she wrote next to the picture.

Weathergirl Natalia soon got in on the act herself, filmed enthusiastically chomping into a sausage in a bun on the morning show as the polls opened.

The 31-year-old was later snapped holding what appeared to be a blue and pink sherbet in an ice-cream cone with a stick in protruding from it attached to a sticker of a unicorn.

‘Apparently this will be the hottest item at Election Day cake stalls.#unicornpoop,’ she wrote on her Twitter.

Comedian Chas Licciardello of Chaser fame was accosted by a volunteer for micro party Drug Law Reform Australia, likely between filming for The Chaser’s Election Desk.

Sporting a sheepish look with a backpack full of gear on his back, the ABC funnyman was photographed outside a busy polling place in the trendy Sydney suburb of Newtown.

‘Handing out how-to-vote cards late this federal Election Day in #Newtown and we got the support of the ever-wonderful Chas from the #Chaser on @abctv,’ the party wrote.

‘We even let him shred one of our cards for some television gold!’

Nova 96.9 host Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli got in on the great Australian tradition of the Election Day sausage sizzle, photographed with a mouthful of meat.

The radio presenter had just taken the first bite of his sausage in a roll with onion and tomato sauce and did not look like he was ready to have his picture taken.

‘Someone love #ausvotes!’ the radio station wrote next to the image uploaded to the station’s official Instagram.

TV presenter Phoebe Burgess took her new pet dog Floyd with her to cast her vote in the NSW town of Bowral.

The wife of rugby league player Sam Burgess dressed down in track pants and a grey jumper with ‘Homeboy’ written on the back and the adorable black cavoodle peeking over her shoulder.

‘Placed my vote in B-town with my HOMEBOY,’ she wrote on Instagram.

Radio host Mel Grieg was less than impressed with having to get up and do her civic duty as she was feeling a bit worse for wear after a big Friday night.

Wearing heavy makeup and sporting a plaid shirt, she stared wide-eyed at the camera without smiling in the pic uploaded to Instagram.

‘When you’re hungover and people make you do stuff.well if I’m going to vote I’m doing it in my bogan shirt and there better be a god damn sausage there,’ she wrote.

A couple more media personalities weren’t photographed but did make comments on their Twitter accounts.

The ever-pithy SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin made a joke about the time-honoured practice of informal voting by writing an extra name with a box as your number one preference.

‘If you’re disenfranchised with tomorrows options just draw in an extra box titled #PrimeChinister, I’m sure it’s legally binding,’ she wrote.

Meanwhile former The Project presenter Charlie Pickering faced to all-too-common disappointment of the sausage sizzle stall being out of stock at his poll.

‘About to vote.But the sausage sizzle has already shut down. I mean, what’s the point? Democracy is dead,’ he wrote.