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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

Paul Bambrick (Greens)

I’m an Architectural Technician, musician and native vegetation manager. I was born in Rockhampton and educated in Brisbane. I’ve worked across Australia and overseas, including as a tour guide and fishing instructor, on the Great Barrier Reef and K’gari, and travelled extensively across Europe and Asia.

Edwina, my partner of 35 years, and I are parents to Clancy and Nooroobunda and grandparents to Azariah. We have a dog named Tili. We try to live our lives simply, to leave a smaller footprint on the planet.

As coordinator of successive Green Army teams, I have introduced many at-risk youths to the Australian bush. I’m passionate about inclusive community, volunteering for many years with Landcare, Clean Up Australia, local school parents and citizens associations, the permaculture movement, Coowonga Folk Music Club and Capricorn Conservation Council.

I was green before I was a Green. A humble tree planter and re-cycling geek, I came to realise that environmental solutions were community and human solutions: a functioning democracy does not destroy its ecosystem.

Politicians have given politics a bad name because they increasingly represent their billionaire donors, not the ordinary people who elected them. 

Right now, 1 in 3 big corporations pays no tax in Australia. Chances are, you paid more tax than them over the last year, so it’s no wonder people are feeling neglected. It’s harder and harder to afford a home to live in, get the bills paid, fill the pantry or the petrol tank each week. 

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

The Greens will reduce cost of living expenses by putting dental and mental health into Medicare, make trips to the GP free again, and freezing and capping rent increases. We’ll regulate the banks to make mortgage payments cheaper.

By making it illegal for supermarkets to price gouge, we’ll bring down the cost of your weekly grocery shop. We can lift all income support payments above the poverty line, make all education free from childcare to university and TAFE, and scrap student debt.

We’ll pay for this by making billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share in tax.

The Greens are the only party with a serious plan to make the changes we need to sustainably transition our energy sector away from fossil fuels and support all workers as they transition to a different part of the mining industry. 

I see “politics” in all human interactions. For me, the Greens are a beacon of hope for a saner, fairer, peaceful and greener world.

Together, we are powerful.

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 Representatives

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 strategy will help discourage the worst scenario for climate action which would result from a combative Coalition/right wing party majority in the senate.