About Us
We are a group a voters in all ages from Geelong, the Bellarine peninsula and the Surf Coast who all agree on one thing: We cannot be passive bystanders while the Federal Election gets into gear - not without at least having done everything we can to try and change the outcome for the better.
Watch this four-minute video, where Mike Lawrence, a former independent candidate in Corangamite, explains about our idea with mobilising our community, and about what we are aiming to achieve:
The growth of community electorate groups over the past few years has been extraordinary. Starting with only a handful in 2019 - Indi and Warringah - leading up to the 2022 election, this expanded to around 20 groups, in electorates such as Wentworth, North Sydney, Mackellar, Goldstein, and Kooyong. Since then the groups have grown to around 40, and the number continues to grow.
The purpose of Voices of Corangamite is to:
• Create space and opportunities to facilitate open discussion about important issues allowing representation for residents within the Federal electorate of Corangamite to participate in Australian democracy
• Support a community-nominated, independent candidate who will put climate and the needs of the Corangamite residents first
• Enable the voice of residents to identify key priorities and the platforms for the selected candidate to pursue in his or her election campaign and, once elected, in Federal Parliament
• Conduct its election campaign in creative and innovative way that reflects our community values. Voices of Corangamite is part of a national movement - a community uprise. All around Australia right now groups of people are talking about who we want to represent us and what we would want the next government to look like.
JOIN Us
We need all hands on deck!
Here's what we are looking for help with. Where can you see yourself fit in?
Expertise
To highlight where we are in need of assistance and support, as we get more and more volunteers and donors on board, you can see our current team configuration on this graph:
WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME
The next federal election will take place on 3 May 2025. If we are to make a significant difference, as we expect we will, we need to move fast.
Australia's democracy is broken - and no one is coming to fix it, unless we
do something about it.
In Greta Thunberg's words: "Democracy is everything. We can't save the
living planet without it.”