About Us

Voices for Canberra is a volunteer not-for-profit group aiming to endorse a Community Independent candidate for the federal electorate of Canberra. We are your neighbours, the people you see at the local shops, at the school gate, and around the neighbourhood. We want better representation in the federal electorate of Canberra. We want to make the electorate of Canberra a champion of Australian politics, where our candidate genuinely represents the aspirations and priorities of the community.

Our aim is to build a grassroots movement for change in Canberra and are now reinvigorating and building on the work that the initial iteration of Voices for Canberra did in 2024. You can find an archive of news, listening activities and the resultant Listening Report here.

We are open to participation from people across the political spectrum and representing the full diversity of the electorate. A strong community is needed to find and then endorse an Independent candidate for the next federal election, due to be held in 2028.

We draw inspiration from the success of proACT in endorsing David Pocock in his successful campaigns to represent the ACT in the Senate, and from Voices of Bean in endorsing Jessie Price who made our neighbouring electorate, and one of Labor’s safest, its most marginal in 2025. Voices for Canberra collaborates with all the community independent movements here in the ACT.

Voices for Canberra, proACT and Voices of Bean are all part of the Community Independents movement that is breathing new life into Australian democracy.

If you live in the electorate of Canberra, please join us in forming a strong movement that can effect change. There are opportunities to get involved and to support us in many ways. Please join our mailing list and contact us with any questions.

Amy Carrad, Frank van de Loo, Geoffrey Nelson, Jen Lindon, Laurie Dunn, Marianne Cullen, Peter Versegi, Richard Webb, Susan Vickers and the rest of the Voices of Canberra team.