OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Ziad Basyouny

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Jocelyn Brewer

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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

Ziad Basyouni (Independent)

Ziad qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Ziad Basyouny is a dedicated community leader and experienced physician committed to improving the lives of Watson residents. With a strong background in healthcare and a deep understanding of local issues, Ziad is focused on making Watson a better place through affordable housing, accessible healthcare, and essential infrastructure improvements. His leadership is driven by integrity, experience, and a profound sense of duty to his community, ensuring that every voice in Watson is heard and valued.

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

Jocelyn Brewer (Greens)

I’m a parent, psychologist, and former public school teacher, and I can’t stop thinking about how the decisions made in Canberra ripple through our community. 

I worry about the world our kids will inherit, and I’ve had enough of the major parties sitting on their hands while our future and our wallets burn.

Unceded Darug lands have been home for most of my life – I grew up in Berala, I worked in the region as a teacher and school counsellor for over a decade, and I’ve lived in the Bankstown area since 2017.

I love it here. I love how our community’s diversity and resilience shines through in everything that we do – from how we supported each other through COVID to the ongoing crisis in Gaza.

Watson deserves better than Labor’s weak response to climate change and their shameful silence on Gaza. And don’t get me started on Dutton’s reckless vision for Australia – it’s not a ‘track’ I want for my kid or yours.

 Watching Parliament ram through dozens of bills on the last sitting day of 2024 was like watching my old Year 9 students scramble to finish their geography assignments by the due date – except these decisions affect all our lives. That was the moment I knew I had to step up and take real action, not just share my disappointment and rage on social media.

From my years in schools and practicing psychology in the area, I understand the real challenges facing Watson families – whether it’s managing mental health and trauma, accessing the NDIS, or dealing the financial stress and housing instability.

I’m here to work for meaningful change and I’m calling on your support for:

• Social justice > ensuring the ceasefire in Gaza is observed, ending racism, improving refugee rights, and advocating for First Nations justice
• Climate justice > real action on sustainability and renewable energy, ending coal and gas and calling out Dutton’s half-baked nuclear plans.
• Economic justice > sustainable solutions to the housing crisis, tackling skyrocketing costs of living, taxing big corporations, getting dental into Medicare and increasing access to effective mental health

Labor has taken our community for granted and I am compelled to act and advocate fiercely for the change Watson needs and deserves.

The Greens have a track record of fighting to put people before profits, delivering stronger legislation and holding governments to account.

Your representative in parliament should be actively listening to and working for you, and that is exactly what I will do.

Vote 1 Jocelyn Brewer, Greens for Watson.

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.