SCOOP: Sausage-gate scandal leaves community questioning CHAC’s financial responsibilities
Peel House’s financial losses from house sausage sizzle (“Sausage-gate”) may reveal deeper financial conspiracies
The Wetlands Post’s shocking exposé into Peel House’s financial losses from their annual house sausage sizzle (now infamously dubbed Sausage-gate) may reveal deeper conspiracies regarding CHAC’s financial responsibilities.
CHAC’s broader community, including students, parents, alumni, and staff, is deeply concerned about the breadth of the college’s financial losses. But that’s just the crust of this unprecedented crisis.
The spotlight now turns to the Peel House Captains and their questionable logistical abilities.
“We only got the email to donate for the sausage sizzle the day before,” revealed an anonymous Peel House insider. “We had no time to get the money; it really put stress on all of us.”
Wetlands Post reporters James Brandt and Jacob Duncan exclusively interviewed Peel House Captains Elodie O’Brien and Adele Paynter on the extent of Peel’s financial losses.
“We broke even,” insisted Elodie. “Both the profits and expenses totalled to $130.”
But the Wetlands Post can exclusively reveal that this statement is false.
“It was only $3 [in losses],” admitted Adele, downplaying yesterday’s culinary calamity.
So, not only were the Peel House Captains dishonest about their financial losses—a clear breach of the Corporations Act 2001, 184(2) and 184(3), as well as Section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law—but their losses are likely linked to the coinciding leaders’ commissioning assembly rehearsal, preventing vital donations from Peel’s entire Grade 11 cohort.

Cartoon by Callum Burns
Considering Peel’s dismal track record, however, it’s no surprise that a mere sausage sizzle failed to achieve profits. Rather, the community is more concerned about the broader implications of this embarrassing Sausage-gate scandal.
“$3 seems insignificant until you consider that CHAC also spent $5 million on the new buildings. This $5,000,003 in expenditure could plunge the college into a crippling, unescapable debt,” warned the Wetlands Post’s financial expert.
The Wetlands Post exclusively predicts that, on trend with the increase of canteen prices following Gareth’s financial losses, the cost of sausage sizzles may skyrocket in the future to offset this year’s Sausage-gate incident. More dangerously, it could also impact tuition prices, forcing impoverishment upon CHAC’s most disadvantaged students.
Ultimately, Sausage-gate is more than just a financial crisis—it’s a sizzling symbol of the plights of late-stage capitalism in our contemporary, consumerist society.
More to come
