The corflutes are coming! The corflutes are coming!
And some candidates in the ACT election are already showing some strong game. The pop art-inspired designs for Labor candidate in Kurranjong Marina Talevski are truly stunning. They're giving us Veronica-from-the-Archie-comics vibes.
Corflutes can start being displayed on Canberra roadsides and elsewhere up to six weeks before the October 19 poll.
Which means September 7 is D-Day. Or C-Day.
But the corflutes probably won't be in the same numbers as we've been used to.
The ACT government last year introduced laws to limit the number of corflutes erected "to improve road safety and reduce waste".
For this election, individuals and entities are limited to 250 signs on public unleased land.
For example a political party with five candidates in five electorates must not exceed 6500 signs (250 for each candidate and 250 for the entity).
That still seems quite a lot.
Election signs can also not be placed on or near roads with a speed limit of 90kmh or more for safety reasons.
All the election signs must be removed within 48 hours after the polling booths close on October 19, or else the owners could be fined.
The Canberra Times last held The Best Election Corflute competition for the 2016 election.
Back then, we deemed the winner to be the corflute used by independent candidate for Ginninderra Vijay Dubey, simply for its audaciousness - he deliberately put a red dot on his nose to get people talking about him. And it worked.
Vijay says he's standing again as an independent for Ginninderra but, sadly, the red-dot corflutes won't be making a return. They do cost a lot.
"I am just a tiny bloke trying to make a difference," he told us.
Marina Talevski, meanwhile, said she didn't want politics to be boring - hence the eye-catching corflutes.
"When I decided to put my hand up to be a candidate, I knew I wanted to do things differently. I wanted to be bold and have fun with it and find new ways to engage with the community," she said.
"A lot of people see politics as dull and argumentative. But I don't think it has to be that way.
"I'm showing people that politics can be fun and engaging. Politics belongs to all of us. It's up to us to use it to bring out the best in each other."
Marina said the approach seemed to be working.
"We get lots of smiles, questions and enthusiasm from people who are stopping by to have a chat," she said.
Marina's mobile office is also out of the box - a polka-dotted, fairy-light-lit red caravan that is open on Lonsdale Street, Braddon, from 5pm every Friday and Saturday evening.
