What a night! Politics in the Pub a huge success! |
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Despite extreme weather and widespread power and telecommunications outages across our region, Wednesday night saw many engaged members of the Warragul and surrounding community come out to a romantic Valentines Day Politics in the Pub meet up! |
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Political scientist Ann Capling shared how her journey started with the creation of Voices of Kooyong during covid lockdowns. She described how the disenchantment of the local Kooyong community with both their state and federal representation ignited the spark to form a community movement to fight for better representation. Ann also then unintentionally became the campaign manager for Dr Monique Ryan, and led a team of over 2000 volunteers based on values of respect, kindness and integrity. Ann also discussed how the team used attacks from the Liberal party to generate positive momentum for their candidate, which motivated her supporters even more. |
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"Monash is not Kooyong", Ann noted - however the original grassroots community independent movement, on which Voices of Kooyong was based, grew out of the rural electorate of Indi, with features similar to Monash. Ann discussed the opportunities available to Monash with independent representation, including ideas to reduce the cost of living for people in regional and rural areas, the importance of job creation in the expanding renewable energy industry, opportunities for training in areas of skills shortages and the need for better health services. |
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Next up - Cathy McGowan AO guest speaker at our next Politics in the Pub! |
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That's right! We are honoured to host the original Community Independent herself, Cathy McGowan AO at our next Politics in the Pub event in Drouin on 21 March 2024! |
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Cathy will discuss with us her time as the original community independent for the Federal seat of Indi. We are looking forward to hearing about how she brought the community with her to Canberra and involved them in the policy decisions all the way through her two terms in Parliament. Without the vested interests of a political party, Cathy was free to work with both sides of politics to achieve better policy decisions for Indi and for Australia.
Cathy will discuss how putting people at the centre of politics leads to better, more efficient and effective outcomes for the local community.
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Please RSVP by Tuesday 19th March to book your attendance. |
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Event details: Date: Thursday 21st March 2024 Time: 6pm to 7.30pm Location: Middels, 94 Princes Way, Drouin VIC 3818 |
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"Don't get mad, get elected!" - Cathy McGowan |
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Kitchen Table Conversations |
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Make sure you have your say! We are starting to run a number of Kitchen Table Conversations across the electorate, to collect information about the issues that are important to our community in the lead up to the next election. |
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To gain a comprehensive overview, we need people from all parts and all demographics of the Monash community to help with Kitchen Table Conversations! make sure your voice is heard and organise to host a KTC! You just need to get together around 4 - 10 friends, family, work colleagues or members of a community group for a couple of hours at your home, a cafe, pub or any other venue, to discuss how you want to be represented. A member of our team will come and help facilitate the conversation and take notes. If you are interested in hosting a KTC or would like to find out more, please click here, and one of our team will be in touch! Have your say and be part of the movement to ‘do politics differently! |
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Have you joined our Facebook discussion group? |
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If you are a member, no doubt you are already engaged and passionate about doing democracy differently! We have created a private Facebook group for members to connect, chat and debate political issues, whether it be on a local, state or federal level. This groups provides a safe space for political discussion, away from the trolls of the public realm! Connect with like-minded people, and together, we may well come up with some innovative solutions to our current state of democracy! | | |
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If someone has forwarded you this email, you can sign-up to receive one directly to your inbox here. If you'd like to get more involved, email us at voices4monash@gmail.com and let us know how you’d like to be part of this growing movement for citizen democracy. |
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Voices for Monash acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet and work, including the lands of the Boonwurrung, Bunurong and Gunai Kurnai people, and other Aboriginal lands and nations within this country. We pay our respects to the elders of these lands, past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. |
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