Here is your Traffic Light Voting Guide for Mackay. You can download the guide to your own computer, print, and fill it in at home and then take it to the polling booth with you. It’s super easy then to transfer your choices onto the ballot paper.  Alternatively, take your phone with you when you head off to vote, and you can then access our advice on the screen.

In the meantime, you can scroll down this page to check out the Green Light Candidate profiles in your electorate.

The team at Vote Climate One encourages all candidates to support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord to underpin any decisions in the Queensland Legislative Assembly relating to action on the climate emergency.

If you have any information which may inform our candidate assessments please use our contact form at the bottom of this page or phone Rob on 0427 580803

Green Light Candidates

Ben Gauci (LCQ)

Ben qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate.

The Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party endorses the vision of the Climate Rescue Accord, to stop and reverse global heating, and recognise the 3Rs as commensurate action to achieve that vision, and have adopted or are on the path to adopting a comprehensive suite of the 3Rs in their policies.

Hemp has some impressive environmental credentials. It grows faster than most weeds, negating the need for herbicides and it is fairly pest resistant. Two crops can be grown per season. It is an excellent crop for carbon sequestration and it can be used to make a strong and pest-resistant building material called hempcrete that continues to absorb carbon dioxide as it cures.

We need urgent measures to stop plastic pollution. Our lives and future depend on it. Bio-plastic materials offer significant advantages for the environment. As they are not made from fossil fuels, they do not produce carbon dioxide when decomposing. In addition, most of them are biodegradable. Everything indicates that they could be an especially important part of solving the climate crisis. Hemp is increasingly being recognised as having tremendous potential in our natural ‘toolbox’ of promising crops for bioplastics.

Policy Statements

• We care about the future of our planet. A greener bent will give our children and our grandchildren clean/er air and clean/er water. Each of us must try to do our part to innovate, change and respect the environment. Our lives and future depend on it!
• Plastic waste chokes the planet. Petrochemicals are found in a wide array of household items, from plastic wrap and rubbish bags to plastic bottles. Hemp based plastics decompose in months rather than decades
• Bio-futures is one of the opportunities that will support future economic development, open the door to new investment and grow employment in regional areas of Queensland
• Bio-products offer a renewable and environmentally beneficial alternative to existing conventional chemical and fossil fuel refining processes
• Transitioning to biofuel power stations would lower emissions and create a carbon neutral cycle and thus reduced greenhouse gasses.
• Reducing our own dependence on mining will protect our water tables from contamination. Fracking would be completely off the agenda

Legalise Cannabis Queensland endorses the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord

Paula Creen (Greens)

I was born and schooled in Mackay, and I’ve been back living here for the past 21 years. I’ve clocked up 12 years of towing people in boats back to safety with Volunteer Marine Rescue Mackay, and did 5 years as an active member of SES Mackay. 

I’m an active member of Mackay Conservation Group and Whitsunday Conservation Council, and an avid litter-picker. I’ve worked in the local building industry as a Building Designer and Drafter for 27 years. 

I have served on the committees and boards of a variety of community organisations to support people living with a disability and uphold their fundamental human rights in our region.

I want Mackay to thrive, but there are shops in town that have been vacant for over 15 years, since the first bust of our local coal-dependent economy. The number of locals without a home or who can’t afford basic necessities is heart breaking. 

If we want things to change, we have to do things differently. We need big corporations and billionaires to pay their fair share in tax so we can use that money to provide all the things that Queenslanders need to live a good life: affordable housing, free childcare and genuinely free public education and healthcare. 

The Greens will take on the big corporations that are ripping off Queenslanders. We don’t take corporate donations like Labor and the LNP, so we work for you – not vested interests.

I’m proud to provide the people of Mackay the opportunity to vote for more for everyday Queenslanders and less for big corporations. We will build 100,000 public homes, freeze rents and cap increases, make groceries and power bills cheaper and stop new gas and coal mines while creating a fair transition to well-paid, stable jobs for workers in these industries. We’ll create a clean manufacturing boom, take back control of our economy and fund universal, free healthcare and education.

I want to see my community thrive again. Together, we can make it happen. Will you join me?