WHY DO WE NEED MINORITY GOVERNMENT?

Australian democracy is not fit for purpose. The major parties have turned their backs on a fair future for us all.

CAN MINORITY GOVT BE A GOOD DEMOCRATIC OUTCOME?

The answer is a resounding YES!
One example is the significant legislative reforms achieved by the Gillard government which achieved significant legislative reforms after striking an arrangement with three crossbench independents.
Major policy initiatives of the Gillard government included the Clean Energy Bill 2011, asylum seeker policy, Mineral Resource Rent Tax, National Broadband Network, schools funding following the Gonski Review, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
A more recent example would be the ACT Labor/Greens coalition, which has had the significant long-term achievements on climate action. Canberra has been running on 100% renewable electricity since 2019, and on track to reach Net Zero by 2035.

THE ELECTION OF A MINORITY GOVERNMENT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CREATE A PARLIAMENT OF NATIONAL UNITY

This new political landscape could be the silver bullet we desperately need to persuade the two major parties to to work for a future that is (genuinely) fair for all of us, and to do the real-world physical actions to create a safe climate.

We publish Traffic Light Voting Guides for every federal electorate. The guides do not put numbers next to candidates. You decide what order in which to put the Green Light candidates. You decide what order in which to put the Orange Light candidates and generally you decide what order to put the Red Light candidates. The exception in the case of Red Light candidates, is if you are voting in what we identify as a Red Light electorate. In this situation the order in which you put the Red Light candidates is critical to the effectiveness of your strategic preferencing.

Federal Red Light Electorates