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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

Carole Stanford (Greens)

I trained in science and computing and I’ve worked in education – teaching in high schools and universities, morphing between roles as a lecturer/tutor and online learning designer, with chemistry research and butterfly farming in between. In academia I’ve explored how people learn, trained teachers and crafted learning experiences for engineers. 

Work and family took me to remote parts of Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands, and to Queensland and New South Wales. I now live on the Atherton Tablelands. 

My early days spent in rural Victoria and my time in developing countries made me reflect on how other people live and what our real needs are. The overarching issue is how our planet is warming and our climates are changing. This governs everything else – the health of our environment, our food production, supplies and distribution systems; the shelters we have and where we live; our health and our water supplies. They will shape what happens to our children and those to follow.

We have the power to limit bad changes happening around us and work for a healthy future for all of us. What we are missing is politicians with the will to put people and the environment first and say no to new fossil fuel projects.

As an educator I know the remarkable difference the Greens plan to fully fund public schools, wipe HECS debt and make TAFE and university free would make. Our young people deserve the best start in life, and to be given equal opportunities – the quality of your education shouldn’t be defined by your location, or your parent’s income. Children should be given every opportunity to thrive.

Now more than ever we need Greens in Parliament fighting for a future for all of us.

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.