We weren't allowed to distribute enrolment information at Chadstone Shopping Center. Their policy is to disallow 'political' groups from advertising. Suburban shopping centers have replaced the village town square as a place to trade and congregate. Not the community, but businesses whose objective is to create an environment where people will spend money. Here we see the paradox about information and interest.
People are uninterested because they have no information.
But mechanisms to provide information are closed, thereby reinforcing the idea that people aren't interested. We were hampered by the fact that we were considered 'minor republicans'. A fair assessment, although significantly compounded by the mainstream's media's reluctance to cover minor groups. R4U, the Greens, Real Republic, Women's Ticket, and Community Republicans drafted a joint press release condemning the government when it was distributed. An unsuccessful candidate in NSW is currently challenging the CCE election as unfair.