The Candidate

March 2025

Not going into the May 3 election with an Independent for Cook

The concept behind the Community Independents Movement in Australia (to which we belong) is to build up our community before we select and endorse a candidate. The candidate who eventually comes forward and we endorse is therefore not self-selected – but rather selected and supported by us, their community.

As we are NOT a political party, any community independent candidate we finally endorse would therefore run their own campaign in an election – separate from Voices of Cook. Then once elected, they will put their community first – not corporate donors, vested interests and their party bosses.

Selection Process

The process of candidate selection will be to first invite potential candidates to come forward. We will put out a public Expression of Interest (EOI) on social media, newspapers, our website, setting out the attributes or experience we would require any potential candidate to have.

This is how many of the current community independents (such as the ‘teals’) have been selected in recent elections.

Once we receive submissions of all EOIs, applicants would initially be screened and interviewed by the VoC organising committee. The next vital step would be to set up ways for all VoC members to get to know the potential candidates – preferably at a town hall type event where the would-be candidates could present their case as to why they believe they would be the right fit to represent the people of Cook in a future election. Voices of Cook would then set up a method for all VoC members to vote for their preferred candidate, who would then be endorsed by us.

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