OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Daniel Dryden

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Paul Johns

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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

Daniel Dryden (LCP)

Daniel qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Daniel Dryden here with big news!
After running as the Legalise Cannabis candidate for the seat of Maitland in the 2023 NSW Election, I set myself back into public life. Now, two years I’m back once more this time as the Legalise Cannabis Party candidate for the seat of Paterson in the 2025 Federal Election.

In the state election, I campaigned against the outdated and harmful myths surrounding cannabis—”Reefer Madness,” “Dangerous Drug,” “Gateway Drug,” “Lazy Stoner,” and “Causes Psychosis”—rhetoric that has been debunked time and time again. You can bet I’ll be doing it again at the federal level!

I’m here to fight for fair cannabis laws, harm reduction and an end to the misinformation that has shaped our health and legal systems for far too long. But this fight isn’t just mine—it’s yours too! Together, we can push for real change.

🌿 Look for the Leaf in Paterson! 🌿

LCP endorses the 3R’s and supports the Climate Rescue Accord

Paul Johns (Greens)

Paul was dealt a rough hand at birth, having a degenerative condition which led to blindness as a teenager, but he has risen to the challenge and is a mentor to others with a disability and is contesting his third Election in a row. Growing up Paul never thought he had a vision problem until he had to sit closer and closer to the TV, he thought that was normal. Paul now has a home in Thornton and is married with two grown children and works supporting intellectually disadvantaged persons.

Paul contested two previous Local Government Elections and last year came within a couple of hundred votes of upsetting the Deputy Mayor of Maitland’s run for government. Paul’s grit and determination have seen him shine in overcoming the barriers of his disability.

To see Paul using the technology that enables him to access the computer data from Greens NSW, and ring and talk to many supporters in his area is a lesson for us all. He can communicate with whoever he chooses using state of the art technology that keeps him sharp and focused on the main game in politics.

And that is to tell his supporters and members of the public that whatever challenges we face in life, things can always be made better if we all work together to get the best outcomes for ordinary working people.

‘One of the main things we can do for a start is to tax the corporations properly so that they pay their way,’ said Paul, ‘and then that money can be put to work to help ordinary people get the health outcomes they deserve, like making sure we put Dental and Mental Health into Medicare?’

‘Also we could then afford to supply Uni and TAFE for free so that we can really train people to the best of their abilities,’ Paul added. ‘The cost of living is rising so rapidly as well, to ensure we have good wholesome food we have to balance the budget so strictly now, especially with the costs of electricity and other household items – it is getting harder every week to make ends meet.’

Paul sees The Greens as the only party he can support because of the policies as they relate to everyday living as well as trying to future-proof our environment and reduce emissions by the Government using more renewable power.

For more information regarding Paul and the challenges he has faced, please view the Guide Dogs Support Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6P9wx-cSw

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.