OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Sue Raye

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Kate Hook

Ben Parker

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You can learn about how to effectively use Traffic Light Voting Guides for the upcoming Federal election by following this link to our video and familiarising yourself with its instructions:

Here’s how you can make climate a compelling issue locally.

Hand out Traffic Light A5 How to Vote cards at polling booths. Phone or text 0427 580 803 to arrange for print ready artwork tailored for your electorate. You can then print the How to Vote card using your home printer or for larger numbers use the services of a commercial printer.

This is particularly effective to help add extra reach to Green Light independent campaigns and draw in swinging voters. Vote Climate One’s assessment of candidates has the elevated status of being fiercely independent.

Check out our how our team Federally assesses Candidates and Parties

Green Light Candidates

Sue Raye (LCP)

Sue qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Sue is a business owner and a long-time strong supporter of cannabis law reform. She believes it is well past time to legalise cannabis for both medical and recreational use and to change the drug driving laws. She believes legislation will free up the police and court system and prevent people’s lives being ruined by unwarranted convictions. She would also like people to have the right to grow their own plants.

LCP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord

Kate Hook (Independent)

Kate’s Climate Policies

Renewables done responsibly

Kate has had many conversations with voters who say the roll out of renewables is dividing communities, particularly in relation to wind farm projects. It doesn’t have to be this way. 

In Kate’s most recent role, she supported communities in the consultation process for new renewable energy projects. Kate found that listening to community concerns, working openly with them to reduce impacts, addressing misinformation about renewables (in addition to genuine impacts and challenges) and advocating for optimal economic and social prosperity for communities results in RENEWABLES DONE RESPONSIBLY! 

Change is difficult but a process that enables everyone to participate, learn, ask questions, discuss concerns and create a shared vision for the future, puts the community in a position of strength to negotiate with developers about proposed plans, so that they are of net benefit to the region in the long term.

With a community-led process, we have the opportunity to:

• transition the generation of electricity from expensive and polluting to cheap and clean sources.
• renew exports by using our world-leading solar and wind resources to produce the low carbon products that are most competitive in a decarbonising global economy.
• expand the variety of job and training opportunities that are needed to keep people in the regions and offer young people a prosperous future living here. This involves attracting new industries to flourish alongside cheap, clean energy.
• regenerate our towns and villages that have missed out on essential services and upgrades for too long, making the most of the new flow of funds and economic activity, not only from energy projects but from new manufacturing and demand for local goods.

Kate is part of the Community Independents Project

Ben Parker (Greens)

I’m a young university student who is studying a Bachelor of Information Technology, and I’m passionate about creating positive change in our community.

I’ve seen firsthand the disillusionment many people feel – especially when they believe their vote doesn’t matter or that change is out of reach. But I firmly believe we can make a difference if we come together and fight for the issues that matter most.

We face pressing challenges like the rising cost of living, the urgent threat of climate change, and the growing crisis of housing affordability. These issues are especially critical for my generation and the future generations, as we’ll be living with their long-term consequences.

As your Greens candidate, I am committed to listening, taking action, and working tirelessly to address these issues. I want to be someone you can trust to represent your concerns. Above all, I hope to inspire and amplify the voices of young people who are too often left out in the discussions about their future.

TRAFFIC LIGHT VOTING GUIDE ASSESSMENT WARNING

The team at Vote Climate One may change our Traffic Light voting advice right up to shortly before election day. For instance it is very difficult to access ranking information from parties or candidates who have no public email, phone number or little internet profile. In these cases, we apply the precautionary principle with a Red Light ranking until further information and commitment to climate rescue comes to hand.

Please contact us if you have local information which could effect our rankings. Phone Rob 0n 0427 580 803

The major parties have let the Australian public down when it comes a serious policy commitment to action on the ecological and climate crisis. Consequently, we have assessed both the Labor party and the Coalition as Red Light parties. Nevertheless, in relation to our Traffic Light Voting guides, the Labor party has been ranked orange ahead of the Coalition which remains a stubborn Red Light proposition.

The House of Representitives

Labor is ranked Orange for the House of Reps. The opportunity for a Green Transition, sparked by the influence of a progressive cross bench holding the balance of power in a Labor minority government, is our bet bet for climate rescue.

The Senate

Likewise our senate Traffic Light Voting Guides also promote Labor ahead of the Coalition using an Orange Light status. This stategy will help discourage the worst senario for climate action which would result from a combative Coalition/right wing party majority in the senate.