Candidate Campaign Support

Congratulations on submitting your nomination as a candidate for the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria elections.

As a Victorian Traditional Owner, you already know the best ways to connect with your community and have your voice heard. It will be essential for you to draw on your existing networks to support you in your campaign.

To assist candidates with their campaign, the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission (Commission) is offering a range of non-financial and financial support options. These are set out in the Campaign Support Guide you can access here.

Campaign Training

You can access free campaign training delivered by Victorian Trades Hall Council and Original Power.

This training is an opportunity for you to learn important campaigning skills from election experts. The training may help you to develop a successful campaign strategy to get your message out to community and gain votes in the election.

Training sessions will be run in each voting region subject to demand from candidates. Training content, including recorded sessions will also be available online. Details of upcoming training sessions are below.

To register your interest in an upcoming training contact us at 1800 TREATY (87 32 89) option 3 or email candidates@victreatyadvancement.org.au 

Metropolitan Campaign Training
Saturday 24 August 2019
1.00pm – 3.00pm  (followed by time to discuss campaign support offered by the Commission)
Victorian Trades Hall Council, 54 Victoria St, Carlton

Sale Campaign Training
Thursday 22 August 2019
12-2pm  (followed by time to discuss campaign support offered by the Commission)
Carang Carang Room, Port of Sale Library, Foster St

Candidates are responsible for the cost of travel to and from the training location. Lunch will be catered.

Resources

You can access emails sent from the Commission to candidates (including those sent prior to you nominating) here.

We have recently released templates for candidates to use to create print and social media products, you can access these materials here.

You are responsible for personalising the templates with written content and images. There is information and guidance on how to most effectively use these templates at the campaign training and in the Campaign Support Guide.

Encouraging community to enrol and vote is a critical part of campaigning and candidates are allowed to help community to enrol. Free enrolment brochures and forms are available to all candidates. Contact us to have these sent to you on 1800 TREATY (87 32 89) option 3 or email candidates@victreatyadvancement.org.au

Completing your nomination

The Commission is your point of contact for candidate training and support. For questions about completing your nomination and conduct of the election, Neil Manning is your contact.

Your nomination cannot be progressed until all documents have been received and the checking process has been undertaken. Failure to return documents may lead to rejection of your nomination.

If your nomination is incomplete or you have not returned identification documents, please contact Neil Manning on 9419 7216, or on 1800 TREATY (1800 87 32 89) option 1.

Contact

If you wish to register for future training sessions, or place orders of campaign materials, please don't hesitate to call us at 1800 TREATY (87 32 89) option 3 or email candidates@victreatyadvancement.org.au. We are here to answer your questions.