2024 Queensland State Election October 26th

The team at Vote Climate One are in the process of assessing the climate credentials of parties and independent candidates. The Labor party has been ranked orange ahead of the Liberal National party and a whole group of other Red Light parties.

Don’t underestimate the power of your vote in the few electorates in which progressive candidates are standing. Our Traffic Light Voting System is biased towards helping Queenslanders elect a minority government forced to work with solidly progressive cross bench representitives.

The ballot draw will take place on Thursday October 10th or Friday October 11th. We will then scramble to finalise our voting guides to be ready for early voting on Monday October 14th. The voting guides cannot be finalised on your electorate page until after the ballot draw.

We will list green light candidates on the electorate pages listed below which have a live link. Check them out to find out the credentials of these candidates. Eventually we will have live links for all 93 electorates. Electorates where a green light candidate is standing will be set up for viewing first.

Find your electorate information here…

Algester	Everton	Maiwar	Redcliffe
Aspley	Ferny Grove	Mansfield	Redlands
Bancroft	Gaven	Maroochydore	Rockhampton
Barron River	Gladstone	Maryborough	Sandgate
Bonney	Glass House	McConnel	Scenic Rim
Broadwater	Greenslopes	Mermaid Beach	South Brisbane
Buderim	Gregory	Miller	Southern Downs
Bulimba	Gympie	Mirani	Southport
Bundaberg	Hervey Bay	Moggill	Springwood
Bundamba	Hill	Morayfield	Stafford
Burdekin	Hinchinbrook	Mount Ommaney	Stretton
Burleigh	Inala	Mudgeeraba	Surfers Paradise
Burnett	Ipswich	Mulgrave	Theodore
Cairns	Ipswich West	Mundingburra	Thuringowa
Callide	Jordan	Murrumba	Toohey
Caloundra	Kawana	Nanango	Toowoomba North
Capalaba	Keppel	Nicklin	Toowoomba South
Chatsworth	Kurwongbah	Ninderry	Townsville
Clayfield	Lockyer	Noosa	Traeger
Condamine	Logan	Nudgee	Warrego
Cook	Lytton	Oodgeroo	Waterford
Coomera	Macalister	Pine Rivers	Whitsunday
Cooper	Mackay	Pumicestone	Woodridge
Currumbin

Any candidate or party who is prepared to formally support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord are automatically ranked as outstanding Green Light candidates in our voting advice.

Disclaimer

We take the assessment of independents seriously. Their potential role of holding the balance of power in a minority Queensland government could be exactly what the doctor ordered to revitalise this state’s politics. Sometimes, though, it is very difficult to find appropriate contact details for these candidates. Consequently,we apply the precautionary principle and use a initial Red Light ranking. These rankings can be adjusted if evidence of commitment to urgent action on global warming becomes evident. Please contact Rob on 0427 580803 if there are good reasons to change a candidate’s Traffic Light ranking. Our advice is biased to supporting progressive independents.

In a state election local issues are paramount for candidates and electors. Our assessment, though , is purely about climate. Consequently, our advice is for those electors who want to be confident that their preferred representatives will stand up for climate action when relevant legislation comes before the Queensland Legislature. Yes, local issues are important, but the science is screaming at us that our very survival is dependent on treating global warming as an emergency. Preference Green Light Candidates first in order of your choice. Preference Orange Light Candidates next and lastly preference Red Light Candidates. Those candidates we mark with a red light are generally a dangerous choice for effective action to stop global warming.

Prepolling in the Queensland election will start on Monday October 14th.

We are assessing all political parties and independent candidates. Candidates who are standing under a party banner are assessed with their party ranking. Please contact us if you have information which will help us with the assessment process. Phone Rob on 0427580803.

Any candidate who is prepared to formally support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord is automatically ranked as an outstanding Green Light candidate in regard to our voting advice.

Vote like your Life depends on it!

Dr Hall reports in our Climate Sentinel News that the flood of climate records broken over the last year shows that we have unleashed several kinds of feedback loops driving runaway warming. This presents a truly existential emergency on a global scale. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS if we don’t stop and reverse the warming. Humans may soon be extinct if we fail. 

Global mobilization is urgently required to have any chance to achieve this before societies begin to collapse under the weight of cascading sequences of extreme weather events as our planet grows ever hotter, ever faster and faster. Because special interests have captured our major political parties to control governments for their benefit, they are doing everything they can to prevent effective responses to the climate emergency that might harm those interests. 

Climate Rescue Accord is working to promote and publicise the kinds of actions that need to be mobilised, and Vote Climate One is doing what we can to help and show people how to change governments by replacing their unrepresentative parliamentarians with genuine climate-aware and progressive representatives able to lead the necessary policy changes and their implementation.