Be one
of the
people
There’s nothing to join and nothing to attend. There’s a list, and the list turns up all at once when it counts.
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People on the list
Email and postcode. Nothing else, ever.
You’ll get one confirmation email. Click the link in it or you’re not on the list — unconfirmed sign-ups get thrown out, which is the only reason the number is worth showing anyone.
What you’re signing up to
One email, when a project goes live. Then silence.
No newsletter. No monthly update. No "just checking in." No forwarding you somebody’s campaign material. If three months go by with nothing worth building a page for, you’ll hear nothing for three months, and that’s the system working correctly.
When something does land, you get a link to a page that lays out what it is, why it matters, where it’s actually stuck, and the best argument against it. You read it. You back it or you don’t. Either is a useful answer.
Why the postcode
Because the first thing anyone says about a number is that it came from somewhere else.
Show a councillor four thousand signatures and the immediate question — a reasonable one — is how many of them live here. A petition that’s mostly from Perth and the internet is easy to dismiss, and it should be.
So the postcode gets collected, and what gets published alongside every total is the split. Not names, not addresses, not emails. Just: this many are 6230, this many are the surrounding region, this many are from further out. Let the number be argued with honestly.
If you don’t live here but you’d come here for it, put your real postcode in anyway. Visitor interest is a genuine argument — it’s just a different one, and it deserves to be counted separately rather than quietly folded in.
The
fine print
Short version: nobody pays for this, nobody buys the list, and you can leave in one click.
Into a mailing list used for exactly one thing: telling you a project page exists. It isn’t sold, rented, shared with a party, handed to a candidate, or given to anyone with something to build.
The only number that ever leaves this site is a count — how many people backed something, and roughly where they live. Never a list of who.
No party, no candidate, no preselection, nobody running for anything. Projects get chosen on whether they’re good for the town and whether a drawing would help, not on who they’d embarrass.
Being on this list will never result in someone asking you to vote for anybody. If that day ever comes, it’ll be announced before it happens, not after.
Yes, and that’s where most of them should come from. Reply to any email on the list and say what it is.
Not everything can be taken on — each page takes real work to research, draw and write, so a handful a year is the realistic ceiling. The ones that get picked are the ones you can picture, that are genuinely stuck rather than merely slow, and where showing people the thing would change the argument.
One person from Bunbury, unpaid, with no organisation behind them. The longer version — including what they get out of it and what they don’t — is on its own page.