GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Rachel Evans

Luc Velez

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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

Rachel Evans (Socialist Alliance)

Rachel Evans is known for her work in the LGBTIQ community and the public housing campaign, currently focused on saving boarding houses and preventing public housing from being demolished. She is a disability support worker and is active with Action for Public Housing and City of Sydney for Palestine.

Luc Velez (Greens)

I’m a community organiser, activist and law student. 

I’ve organised in the climate movement, volunteered at community legal centres and I serve on the board of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. All this experience has taught me that our work and politics are strongest when they are built out from our community. Yet the major parties are prioritising rich property developers and the fossil fuel industry over our communities.

I’ve watched more and more of my friends forced out of Sydney after massive rent hikes, and those still around are working twice as hard just to get by and keep up with price-gouging supermarkets. It doesn’t have to be like this –  We can use the billions of tax handouts going to coal, gas and oil corporations to massively expand publicly owned renewables. We can tax the big corporations to bring dental into Medicare and build good quality homes that we can actually afford.

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.