Hear directly from candidates running in the upcoming local Council election.

Are you a resident of Mount Alexander Shire? Want to hear directly from local candidates running in the October election? This is your chance!

Learn what matters most to the individuals currently running to lead our community through the next 4 years. Hear their plans for the future of our Shire, and what they intend to achieve if they are elected.

Film-maker and experienced facilitator, Alex Kelly will MC the event at Theatre Royal, where the candidates will be asked direct questions from a number of community groups, including:

Central Victoria Climate Action
My Home Network
Castlemaine Pride
Mount Alexander Shire Disability Advocacy Group
Castlemaine Safe Space
Castlemaine School Strike 4 Climate
Mount Alexander Shire Accommodation and Respite Group
Young Leaders of Mount Alexander Shire
Climate Justice Mount Alexander
Castlemaine Commons
Rural Australians for Refugees - Castlemaine
Free Palestine Central Vic
+ More to be announced soon!

There will be limited time to present questions or comments on the day. To submit a question to be considered by the candidates, please email: meetthecandidatesmtalexander@gmail.com

Please get in touch if you have specific accessibility requirements.

For those unable to attend in person, the event will be live streamed. Details to follow.

Your voice matters. Be informed. Get involved. See you there!

**Date:** Sunday, 29 September

**Time:** 11am-1pm

**Location:** Theatre Royal Castlemaine

We acknowledge Dja Dja Wurrung as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live, work and play. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and we thank them for the care they have taken of Country. We express our gratitude in the sharing of this land, our sorrow for the personal, spiritual and cultural costs of that sharing, and our hope that we may walk forward together in harmony and in the spirit of healing. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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