Nicklin/ 2024 Queensland state election

Here is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide. The real time guides for each electorate will be available after the ballot draw which will happen either on Thursday October 10th or Friday October 11th. We will prepare the guides over the weekend ready for pre-polling on Monday October 14th. Once we upload them to the website, you will be able to download, print, and fill them in at home and then take them to the polling booth with you to easily 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

Melody Lindsay

Melody 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

Mark Jessup

I’m a lifelong Currumbin local and journalism student. I’m deeply familiar with all the wonderful things that make our area so special, including our natural environment, which needs to be protected from threats like land clearing and poor development, as well as the climate crisis that threatens to upend our ecosystem.

We desperately need action on the cost of living crisis. From housing to energy prices to groceries, prices keep skyrocketing, along with corporate profits!

As a young person, I know it is increasingly difficult for people to move out of home, and many people are being forced out of the Gold Coast due to sky high rents that are some of the most expensive in the country.

When big corporations and rich developers are making massive profits off a cost of living crisis, the government should stand up to them. But instead, Labor and the LNP continue to take corporate donations, and act in the interests of profit over everyday Queenslanders. 

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The Greens will freeze rents and cap increases. Take energy back into public ownership and crack down on supermarket price gouging. 

We will reinvigorate public ownership in Queensland and start getting our essential services working for people – not profit. We will tax big corporations fairly and raise money to build 100,000 homes, fully fund our public schools, ensure healthcare is truly free, universal and high quality and secure permanently free, frequent and accessible public transport. 

We could create a future with 100% publicly owned renewable energy, manufactured here in Queensland to tackle the escalating climate crisis and make our energy bills cheaper. 

All of this is possible, and it can be accomplished with more Greens in Parliament – people who will fight for you instead of big corporations, rich developers and the fossil fuel industry.

The Greens don’t accept corporate donations. As your representative, I will listen to  and work for you, so we can truly build a future for all of us.