GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Dr Sophie Scamps

Ethan Hrnjak

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Green Light Candidates

Dr Sophie Scamps (Elected MP)

Sophie is part of the Community Independents Project

Climate Policies

Climate change is not only an environmental issue, but it is an economic, health and national security issue too. Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to become a renewable energy superpower, however we need the Federal Government to show leadership when it comes to acting on Climate Change.

Australia’s environment is also under severe threat. We are a world leader in land clearing while many of our iconic species such as the koala face extinction if we don’t act urgently.

My key climate, energy and environment policy priorities are:

• Achieving a minimum 50% reduction in climate pollution by 2030
• Achieving Net Zero emissions by at least 2050, and ideally before
• Driving Australia’s transition to clean energy and storage by supporting research and development in technologies and delivering an interconnected grid
• Becoming a renewable energy superpower by achieving at least 85% renewable energy by 2030
• Phasing out fossil fuels such as coal and gas
• Protecting our oceans by ending the practice of offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling
• Electrifying our homes and businesses
• Electrifying our transport sector by making it cheaper for all Australians to access electric cars and electric utes
• Protecting our native forests by ending native forest logging
• Supporting communities experiencing and recovering from extreme weather disasters
• Developing long-term adaptation strategies in response to climate change

My actions on climate, energy and environment policy:

• Successfully convinced the Government to protect our precious aquifers from fracking by expanding the “water trigger” so all gas projects are subject to federal scrutiny 
• Negotiated improvements to the safeguard mechanism to ensure Australia’s biggest polluters reduce their emissions
• Called for the establishment of a National Health, Wellbeing and Climate Strategy which is now full funded
• Introduced a Private Members Motion to end the logging of our public native forests
• Moved amendments to the Government’s proposed Sea Dumping Bill to ensure it is not used as a front to expand the fossil fuel industry
• Led calls for an end to offshore oil and gas drilling and seconded Zali Steggall MP’s Stop PEP-11 and Protect Our Coast Bill
• Strongly advocated for an end to taxpayer funded fossil fuel subsidies – which cost us $10 billion every year
• Pushed the Government to make EVs cheaper and affordable for families and small businesses

Ethan Hrnjak (Greens)

Hi, I’m Ethan Hrnjak, your Greens candidate for the seat of Mackellar in the upcoming Federal election. As one of your elected Councillors on Northern Beaches Council, I know the difficulties faced by our community, namely, the cost of living, housing and climate crises.

This election, I’m the only candidate offering genuine, concrete and visionary solutions to these issues. Instead of marching to the neoliberal drumbeat of tax cuts and deductible lunches for businesses, I know that we need to make real, progressive policy in this country again if we want to counter the rise of the far-right.

By taxing the billionaires and making large corporations pay their fair share, we can fund the inclusion of dental, vision and mental health into Medicare, build hundreds of thousands of public, affordable and accessible homes, make preschool to PhD education completely free, put a hot breakfast in front of every public school student and invest in a publicly owned renewable energy revolution that will drive down energy costs, supercharge our transition to net-zero and drive our economy into the future. These policies are all possible and doable, we just need the political willpower and the guts to do it. Unfortunately, this biggest barrier to people-powered policy are the vested interests in Parliament that dictate how public policy in this country is set. Billionaires and big corporations who donate to both major parties, the right-wing and Independents have unfair influence over our politicians

The only way to keep Dutton out of power this election is by voting Greens. We have always been open to working with any political party to deliver real action on climate and inequality, but Dutton’s Liberals have made it clear they are the party of climate wreckers, big business and the top end of town. In the event of a minority Government, The Greens will never support Peter Dutton, the same of which can’t be said for most of the other candidates running. We all know that a Dutton-led Government would be absolutely terrible for our country, our environment and our way of life – but if the right promises are made, who knows how some crossbench MPs will vote.

What we know is that the polling suggests a hung parliament is likely, and the influence of the crossbench has never been greater. That’s why billionaires like Clive Palmer, Gina Rhinehart and right-wing lobby groups such as Advance Australia are fighting so hard to keep us out. They know that thanks to our strict political donations rules, it is the people of Australia that inform how we vote in Parliament rather than vested interests. The Greens have always refused corporate donations and cap individual donations at $16,300 so that people like Simon Holmes a Court don’t have any more influence and power than the Australian voters. It is not the mark of a fair or egalitarian society where one candidate can be outspent 10-1.  Let’s aspire to do politics differently, starting by cleaning up our Parliament and kicking out the vested interests that are holding back real progress and action on the issues we face.

If you genuinely want honesty, equality, fairness and integrity in your elected representatives, the only real option on the ballot this election are The Greens.

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.