Council candidate Grahame Miller feels his standing up for the average Dubbo local and he is hoping to have their vote on Saturday in the local government election.
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Mr Miller will run in Dubbo's north ward in a group with Karina McLachlain and admitted he is hoping to give the regular person a voice if he is elected on council.
"I wasn't happy with the way things were being run," he said.
"I suppose I wanted the average mum and dad to have a voice."
Mr Miller believes members of the public are displeased with the lack of interaction between themselves and candidates or former councillors.
"I'm not a developer, I'm not in a political party and it seemed like it was those two people running Dubbo," he said.
"Certainly in my campaigning one thing I have been doing which I haven't seen anyone else do is standing at the West Dubbo Shopping Centre talking to people.
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"Overwhelming they are saying 'I wish we could talk to everyone who is running' or 'I've never had a councillor talk to me before'.
"They average mum and dad want a say."
Mr Miller is in north ward after spending the whole of his life in West Dubbo, he believes he has a good grasp on the issues in the area.
"All in that part of town," he said.
"I grew up in a housing commission house in West Dubbo.
"I was in the first year at Delroy High School, I played football for Westside."
Surprisingly, Mr Miller and Ms McLachlain did not know each other a month but while know run together on a ticket for the election.
"I hadn't met Karina [McLachlain] until four weeks ago," he said.
"I enlisted Karina because she had the knowledge about the River Street bridge and the ring road.
"I didn't have that knowledge and I thought it was very important to Dubbo.
"She's been doing a lot of work on it for a long time."
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