GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Stephen Commerford

Joanna Somerville

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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.

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

Stephen Commerford (Independent)

As a long-term resident of 23 years, I am driven by a deep conviction that true leadership comes from someone who has lived in the community and understands the real challenges they face. 

I started my career in the coffee industry working at both the Bushell’s Factory and Arnott’s biscuits. With deep knowledge of cafes, small business and manufacturing, I now work in Sustainability and Innovation with the University of New South Wales.

I encourage you this election, when you meet the other candidates, simply ask “How LONG have you lived here?” 

Our community deserves a leader who not only talks about change but walks the talk and takes real action. With the cost of living hitting families and small businesses hard, we need someone who will stand up for YOU in Canberra.

Together we can make Reid a place where families thrive and businesses succeed.

Joanna Somerville (Greens)

I believe everyone should be able to afford the basics. While you’re working harder than ever, 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax. We can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different outcome.

I’ve called the Reid electorate home for 30 years. In that time, I have seen people struggle to pay for groceries, healthcare and a roof over their head. In a wealthy community like ours, everyone should be able to afford the basics.

The Federal Government’s policies are failing us. The two major parties care more about big corporations and billionaires than everyday people like you and me. Together we can make another choice. We can lower the cost of living, put an end to the housing crisis and give young people the same opportunities my generation had.

What we need is leadership. We need vision and ambition. We need to fix the broken system we have now. People are sick of politics and desperate for positive change.

I’m looking forward to working for you in Canberra.

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.