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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

Trish Frail (Greens)

My mother passed away when I was a teenager and not having a Mum to go to was hard. However, I now have 5 children of my own and while I travelled around a lot when my children were small, I always came back to Bre. I was very supportive of my children and their schooling. For me, it was essential that they finished Year 12, and they did.

My achievements include being a published author, having successfully written a book called First Nations Principal of Culture Bible (which can be purchased through Amazon). I’m currently negotiating with my publisher for a second book.

I’ve also owned my own business, Thulii Ngemba, which specialised in native foods. I’m in my second term as a Councillor on Brewarrina Shire Council, and I’ve sat on a number of boards and committees:

• Brewarrina Hospital Board – giving me a good understanding of health issues in regional NSW
• NSW Government housing committee (6 years) – giving me a strong understanding of all the issues associated with housing and homelessness
• Co-founder of the Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre
• Co-convenor of the Australia Free Nuclear Alliance
• International Indigenous Greens member.

As a writer, small business owner, elected representative and hard-working member of community committees and boards, I’m well placed to represent the Parkes electorate in Parliament.

Growing up on the longest river in Australia, it was always a pleasure to listen to the water run over the fish traps or as we know them, Biami Ngunnhu. However, during droughts, it hurts not being able to listen to the water and knowing that communities down river do not have sufficient water and are suffering. Climate change is happening now and we are all suffering from the effects of droughts, bush fires and floods.

As a Greens candidate, I am 100% committed to working with the community to prioritise the environment and get it back on track. I know the impact of climate change first hand. My previous partner had respiratory issue arising from previous droughts and so in 2016 we had to move to WA for a couple of years. But it was too far from home for me, so I decided to move back to Bre.

Luckily I did, Because the Brewarrina Shire Council wanted to build a nuclear waste dump in Bre. The proposal was not just going to affect Bre, it was also going to impact surrounding communities, as nuclear waste would be transported through them. I was very concerned about the health and safety of those communities, as well as the environment, and so started a campaign called ‘No Bunda Bunda on Ngemba land’. Bunda Bunda means bad poison.

I was successful with this campaign and Council dropped the proposal to build a nuclear waste dump. I am proud of the success of that campaign and it was one of the reasons for I deciding to run as a Green’s candidate for the federal election.

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.