COMPELL’s Career in Public Office Program for Multicultural Australians will equip political hopefuls to run for office. The aim is to create a politically literate, well-supported, and well-networked pool of multicultural Australians over the years, who will successfully run for office at various levels of government.

In order for democracy to work, we need an educated people, especially our adult migrant population who may have missed out on learning civics education in our Australian education system.

Us migrants spend years and even decades living in Australia before receiving our citizenship, which would then enable us to vote and run for office. We at COMPELL believe that these are the crucial years to equip our migrants with the knowledge and skills to not only to run for office but to also be well-informed future voters and politically active citizens when they become Australians.

At COMPELL we believe in helping our people build towards a career in politics rather than teaching people how to become “instant” politicians. The program will be conducted by multicultural expert trainers and facilitators from major political parties and some minor parties and Independents.