The Housing Crisis

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On 26 and 27 February, we’re bringing together a powerful panel to discuss what we can do, locally and nationally, to improve housing access and affordability in Indi.

Our speakers include:

Mark Humphries, housing advocate, comedian and host of SOLD!
Senator David Pocock, Independent Senator for the ACT, with a key focus on fixing housing.
Helen Haines MP, Independent Federal Member for Indi, with a special interest in regional housing.
Celia Adams, CEO of Beyond Housing. Beyond Housing has a simple mission: Ending homelessness.

Alongside the panel discussion, we’ll host a special screening of SOLD! Who Broke the Great Australian Dream?, where Mark Humphries investigates Australia’s housing system with his trademark mix of humour and hard‑hitting insight.

This documentary offers a bold, factual and surprisingly quirky look at the policies that have shaped modern renting and home ownership - a perfect conversation starter for our community.

This is an event for supporters of community independents (you might be a supporter of Helen Haines MP, Voices for Indi, or Community for Benambra). If you are not already a supporter, we invite you to join the conversation about democracy and good policy. Please sign up at one of these links:

Helen Haines MP Join the team that's doing politics differently
Voices for Indi https://team@voicesforindi.com
Community for Benambra Community for Benambra

Bring a friend and join us to talk about practical, community-driven solutions to the housing crisis.

Event details:

📅 26 February 6-8pm
📍 Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre

📅 27 February 6-8pm
📍 Butter Factory Theatre, Wodonga

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Voices For Indi

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Voices for Indi is a community movement, initiated in 2012, to build a voice in our democracy for the people of Indi. It was during the 2013 process of Kitchen Table Conversations, culminating in the V4I report, that interest developed in seeking an independent candidate who would be aligned with the values and issues that people in Indi said were important to them.

V4I was the catalyst for Cathy McGowan’s campaign, however the campaign was conducted by a group of over seven hundred people, far bigger and broader than V4I.

In January 2019 V4i were encouraged by supporters to design and facilitate an innovative, first time process to give the community a mechanism for identifying another high quality Independent candidate to consider getting behind. As a result of this process the community (none of the V4i Committee voted in this process) invited Dr Helen Haines to stand and history was made again when Helen was elected to succeed Cathy McGowan AO at the 2019 Federal election after a campaign supported by 1750 volunteers. The support for Dr Haines as the Federal Member for Indi is ever increasing because she continues to uphold the standard set by Cathy McGowan, of honest, respectful and constructive politics based on inclusion, valuing all voices and true representation of her constituents as sought by the community that elected her. It’s the ‘Indi Way’!