High-profile senate candidate Derryn Hinch will join eight other people vying for election in a public forum at Bendigo Library on Sunday.
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The Australian Justice Party founder and upper house candidate will be joined by the Australian Greens' Rosemary Glaisher and the Australian Sex Party's Meredith Doig, as well as a string of representatives from more marginal parties.
Candidates from the Labor Party, Liberal Party and the Nationals have declined an invitation to attend.
Although the event is an initiative of a group lobbying for the Safe Schools Coalition in Bendigo, organiser John Cooper said he hoped the debate would touch on many election topics.
"This is first chance to talk to the voting public after the nominations close today," he said.
Mr Cooper welcomed this week's news Kangaroo Flat school Crusoe College had become Bendigo's first member of the Safe Schools Coalition, and said he hoped more institutions - including primary schools and kindergartens - would follow suit.
Host of Phoenix FM program Rainbow Radio Max Primmer will moderate the forum.
The event starts at 11am in the Bendigo Library.
Candidates and party representative attending the forum (HR = House of Representatives; S = Senate):
- Rosemary Glaisher, Australian Greens (HR)
- Joshua Gilmore, Australian Progressives
- Meredith Doig, Australian Sex Party (S)
- Derryn Hinch, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (S)
- Miranda Jones, Voluntary Euthanasia Party (S)
- Anne Foster, Australian Christians
- Ruth Parramore, Animals Justice Party (HR)
- Rebecca O'Brien, Australian Equality Party
- Stephen Vereker, Democratic Labor Party (S)
