Townsville Community Election Assembly

Name: Townsville Community Election Assembly
Start: 2024-10-10T18:30:02+1000
End: 2024-10-10T20:30:02+1000
Location: Kirwan Uniting Church

Thu, 10 Oct, 6:30pm - 8:30pm AEST

Kirwan Uniting Church

thuringowa central, australia

Queensland Community Alliance

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Event description

Join 100 community leaders to act together for the common good in Townsville!

The Townsville Community Election Assembly will be the biggest people powered event of the 2024 State Election in Townsville.

We will share stories, propose solutions and negotiate outcomes with the MPs and candidates who are likely to represent the NQ seats of Townsville, Mundingburra, Thuringowa and Hinchinbrook in the Queensland Parliament.

Through dozens of listening events and hundreds of individual or small group conversations, we have developed a shared issues agenda for Townsville.

Our key issue areas are:

Housing
Climate
Safe and connected communities
Thrive by five (healthcare and education for kids under 5).

This is a non-partisan action, as are all activities of the Queensland Community Alliance. You can read more about our Alliance below or visit our website.

Parking information
There is ample street parking on Hinchinbrook Drive and Corveth Street. We ask that the parking onsite at the church be prioritised for people who are less mobile or require easier access to the venue.

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The Queensland Community Alliance brings together 32 member organisations representing 1.7 million Queenslanders. We organise our members and communities to act for the common good. We are churches, mosques, other faith groups, trade unions, community organisations and ethnic associations.

Community organising is democracy in action: winning victories that change lives, transform communities, develop leadership and strengthen civil society.

This Alliance is based around the personal relationships we build across organisations in our local area. We identify and train people to become leaders in community organising, and decide our priorities for action together, through a process of listening to stories of pressures that our members face and witness.

The core elements of our Alliance are:

Non-partisan. Holding politicians of all parties to their responsibility to serve the community.
Adhering to the rule never to do for other what they can do for themselves.
We will work in partnership to together solve the problems we face.
A commitment to listening to the voice of the excluded and partnership with the most vulnerable in our community.
Self-funding— funded out of the dues of member organisations (contributing according to their size and capacity), and not accepting government funding.
Working only on issues that make our Alliance stronger. We do not work on issues which bring core values of our members into tension. Instead, we seek to address the tension that exists between our shared values, and what we witness in the world.

Our Alliance draws on the community organising tradition of the United States. Our sister organisations are the Sydney Alliance, Hunter Community Alliance, Te Ohu Whakawhanaunga (New Zealand) and Citizens UK.

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