Name: Catalyst Trust’s Mayoral Candidate Forum
Start: 2025-09-04T08:30:00+12:00
End: 2025-09-04T10:30:00+12:00
Location: Wakatipu High School

$Catalyst Trust\u2019s Mayoral Candidate Forum$

Get beyond the social media soundbites and political slogans with Queenstown’s only free and fully independent Mayoral Candidate Forum, on Thursday, September 4.
Newsroom’s South Island correspondent and environment editor, David Williams, will again MC this second Catalyst Trust candidate forum. The former Mountain Scene editor lived in Queenstown for years and so understands our community and issues, without being caught up in current local politics and business.
Forum coordinator AJ Mason said all six mayoral candidates have been invited, so our community can understand the background, knowledge, policies, skills and values each would bring as leader of our council and community.
They will have time to present their prepared pitch prior to questioning by a panel, moderated by Williams, based on audience questions and input from local high school students.
Catalyst Trust and Williams are holding workshops with interested students prior to the forum to ensure our community’s youngest voters can be actively involved in their first election and that potential mayors address youth perspectives on our district’s future.
Register to ensure your seat on Catalyst Trust’s Humanitix page here. The forum is free, but koha for the Wakatipu High School Awhi Fund would be welcome.
Catalyst Trust’s Mayoral Candidate Forum will be recorded and released the following day on Catalyst’s YouTube channel.
If you would like to check out last election’s Catalyst Mayoral Candidate Forum, here’s the link