Voices for Forrest is part of the Australia-wide Voices movement. We are inspired by groups like Voices for Indi.

Voices of Indi chose Cathy McGowan as its community candidate, and she became the first woman to be elected to the crossbench in 2013. McGowan, after retaining the seat in 2016, passed the baton to independent Dr Helen Haines, making it the seat longest held by an independent.

Denis Ginnivan, founder of Voices for Australia and co-author of the Indi Way: “Some people think that the Voices group means you’re getting rid of an unpopular incumbent, but it isn’t that at all,” he said.
“The reason we formed was that people weren’t happy with the way in which politics was playing out for us in Indi. We decided to build a community engagement process.”

“The community has to want it themselves. It’s a community up rather than a party down approach,” he said.
“It is inspiring to see an approach where people value democracy and the principles behind it.”

“Voices for …” groups are springing up all over our country to replace the old paradigm of the two-party-dominated politics of the past.