Australia’s viral moments in 2022: a courtly cavoodle, a political bulldozer and Cumdog

An entertaining election gave us twerking Shrek and an unexpected football tackle, but there was plenty of mayhem away from the campaign trail too

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In the future, everyone will be a main character for 15 minutes - or whatever Andy Warhol said. We are now in the future, and as with any election year in Australia, a menagerie of main characters has meandered across our feeds like a pride of lions on the loose from the zoo (more on that later). Here is a recap of 12 months of mayhem.