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Stay up to date with the latest from Voices of Wannon as we work to raise the standards of political representation across our electorate. Here you’ll find updates about our activities, events, and the movement we’re building together.

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Voices of Wannon disappointed with illegal Liberal ads

October 23, 2025

A regional television network repeatedly breached its licence when it ran campaign ads for Liberal MP Dan Tehan during the advertising blackout days before the federal election. Community organisation Voices of Wannon, which endorsed...

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Voices of Wannon congratulates our community candidate

May 14, 2025

Voices of Wannon would like to congratulate Alex Dyson on doing such a stellar job at the 2025 election. Alex gave all Wannon citizens the chance to vote for a genuine community independent who...

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Voices of Wannon endorses Alex Dyson

August 24, 2024

Today the group Voices of Wannon announced that they had again endorsed Alex Dyson as the community independent candidate for the Federal seat of Wannon. "Alex has committed to taking action on the priorities...

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Tehan won't take action

June 12, 2024

Representatives of Voices of Wannon met with the Member for Wannon Dan Tehan at his office in Hamilton yesterday. Voices of Wannon community group members, Martin Slocombe and Genevieve Grant presented the Federal member...

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Community listening update 2024

May 26, 2024

From mid 2023 until April 2024, Voices of Wannon held another round of community consultation to enable another cohort of Wannon residents to have their say. During this time the group facilitated a further...

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Make your voice heard

April 16, 2024

Voices of Wannon are calling on all Wannon residents with ideas for improving our region to join a Kitchen Table Conversation, or go to the Voices of Wannon Website at https://www.voicesofwannon.net/ and complete their survey. “Kitchen...

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Introducing Portland to "The Indi Way"

March 07, 2024

The Portland Community is invited to learn how to do politics differently at the Portland launch of the book “The Indi Way” at Macs Hotel in the Blue Room on Thursday 14 March 2024...

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Introducing Colac to "The Indi Way"

February 26, 2024

The Colac Community is invited to learn how to do politics differently at the Colac launch of the book “The Indi Way” at the Colac Library on Wednesday 13 March 2024 from 5pm. Denis...

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Wannon is a marginal seat!

May 31, 2022

For the first five months of 2022, Alex Dyson spent hundreds of hours travelling across Wannon, meeting with a huge variety of people. His team synthesised these consultations together with the key priorities from...

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Announcing our very own Community Independent Candidate

January 09, 2022

Voices of Wannon is delighted to announce Alex Dyson as our endorsed independent candidate for the upcoming Federal election. Alex has promised to “actually advocate for the area, not the factional power brokers of...

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