Dr Lachie McKeeman

Dr Lachie McKeeman is a rural GP and father of three who has lived in North East Victoria since 2013 and has settled in Wooragee with his family. He works as a doctor in Wodonga, and is deeply involved in his community as a volunteer firefighter at Wooragee CFA and as both player and committee member of the Yackandandah Football and Netball Club.

He completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Deakin University before studying medicine at the University of Wollongong, and has been a Practice Principal at Federation Clinic in Wodonga since 2020, working as a rural generalist doctor. Through his medical career, Lachie has seen firsthand the challenges facing people who live outside the big cities - access to healthcare, workforce shortages, cost-of-living pressures and the need for strong local services. Lachie’s decades of frontline healthcare experience have fuelled a passion for improving outcomes for patients, communities, and health services.

Lachie is running as the community-backed independent candidate for Benambra, because the region has been taken for granted for too long and deserves better than what it is getting. He is a doctor, a neighbour, a volunteer and a parent - someone who has chosen to put down deep roots in this part of the world and wants to see it properly represented. Lachie is standing as a candidate because he believes our community deserves someone who will listen, tell the truth, and stand up for what is right for us.