Six candidates will be vying for the role as Member for Monaro come March 23rd's NSW election day.

We gave each candidate a week's notice with the same request for comment, word limit and the same deadline. Those who responded are included below, in ballot order, for readers to consider.

I've lived in country NSW for most of my life. After leaving school, I trained as a surveyor at TAFE. Later, I retrained as a science teacher. I now live in Jerrabomberra with my wife and daughter.

I have visited Bombala many times to talk about the issues facing your area. One of those important issues is the impact of the undemocratic forced council merger. Michael Daley has written to the community pledging a pathway to a demerger should the community wish to take that step.

Labor has also committed funds to ensure the MPS gets the equipment it needs; has put $1 million on the table to upgrade the main street; put funds aside for a weir to improve water security and quality; and recently announced 260 additional jobs for National Parks.

Country Labor will make health, education and action on climate change a priority. We will hire more nurses in Cooma and Bega hospitals, with a ratio of one nurse for every three patients in emergency and maternity wards. We'll also invest $23.6 million to fully upgrade Cooma hospital.

We'll put an additional 48 police in our region to make it safer, and provide $15.7million to upgrade local roads. Labor will energise our schools, by hiring additional teachers, replacing ageing demountables, installing air-conditioning and giving $5000 to P&Cs. Labor will make TAFE free in skills shortage areas.

This weekend, you can change the government. Only a Daley Labor Government will put health and education first, instead of Sydney stadiums.

The Monaro is a place unlike any other and I am honoured to live in this beautiful part of the world. To live, to run a business, to raise a family - you won't find anywhere else like it.

That is why I have been working hard, digging my heels in and rallying, loudly, for the projects that matter most to our communities.

When you look around the region, you may have seen road upgrades, new sporting precincts, school and hospital upgrades and improvements to community facilities.

These are real projects, happening here and now, funding locked in, plans drawn up, shovels in the ground, with some completed and already in use.

These are grass roots projects, championed by you, coming to life, and they're not just here in the Monaro, they're happening right across regional NSW.

The NSW Nationals have delivered things like more connectivity and less mobile black spots. The NSW Government's drought relief package has been bolstered to $1.5 billion giving farming communities a long-term guarantee that they have a strong future in regional NSW.

And the $4.2 billion Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund of which every cent will be spent in regional NSW, as was legislated by the NSW Nationals, will strengthen regional water security, digital connectivity, passenger transport, freight and the way we activate industry and attract business.

Generations of families and businesses have built happy and successful lives in the Monaro and I will continue to do everything I can to preserve our towns and our way of life, and I encourage you to do the same.

Standing for election is not an easy or simple task. There is great expectation that you will be everything to everyone and will say yes to all.

I'm not that bloke. I will listen to anyone, and hear them out, but I will not simply agree. I assess. I enquire. I ask questions.

I am a dad, first and foremost, with five kids aged 2 to 9 that I home educate with my wife Alisa. We live in Nimmitabel, away from the bustle of city life by choice.

I have been self employed now for over 20 years in scrap metal, recycling and waste systems. I purchased a couple of solar farms off the NSW government in 2013, and many people know of my work throughout the Australian renewables industry.  I back my beliefs with personal investment.

I believe humans are influencing our climate. Yes climate changes all the time, but humans are making it more extreme: hotter summers, colder winters, wilder weather, dryer droughts, rainy-er rain.

I do not trust our governments, nor our bureaucracy. I do not believe we have access to 'justice' anymore, and this must be fixed ASAP.

I believe in TAFE, and studied my Electrical Fitter trade at TAFE, along with Assoc. Diploma in Electrical Engineering and also Explosives - by far the most interesting course I ever studied!

I support Nurse-Patient ratios and know the issues well after the premature birth of our twins plunged us headlong into the health and nursing system.

I believe a clever electorate that wants to send a strong message on any particular topic, should vote an Independent in from time to time, principally to put the parties on short notice and force them to take heed. Now is that time.

I will represent the Monaro with equity, fairness and without favour.

Candidates who did not respond by deadline are: Mick Holton, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers; Frankie Seymour, Animal Justice Party; and Peter Marshall, Greens