OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Nicholas Daniels

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Phillip Musumeci

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Green Light Candidates

Nicholas Daniels (LCP)

Nicholas qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Nicholas Daniels has been a political cannabis activist for decades, originally becoming politically active by joining the only Party with the same goals he held, the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party.

On the HEMP Party website he found information on all things hemp/cannabis. Cannabis is used for building; biofuels; plastics that could replace petroleum-based products; seed for food; hurd for stock feed; it can even be used to run electrical power stations, and the list goes on and on. As the ABC once reported, it truly is “The Billion Dollar Crop.”

Nic opened the Queensland state branch of the Federal HEMP Party and helped form the Sunshine Coast sub-branch. He went on to become a life member of the HEMP Party, which changed its name to the Legalise Cannabis Australia Party. When the state Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party was forming four years ago, he joined and put his hand up as a candidate.

Years ago he lost a very dear friend to leukaemia—a type that may have responded well to cannabis therapy, according to anecdotal evidence and modern research. But his friend didn’t have that option and underwent chemo and radiation treatment. At the very least, cannabis would have helped ease the horrendous side effects of the treatment – if it had been legal and affordable. This, more than anything, is the reason why Nic got involved in cannabis advocacy. Cannabis is now available, but not affordable for too many.

Shortly after moving to the area for work following the 2012 floods, he co-founded the FNQ HEMP Embassy in Kuranda. The Embassy ran a physical location in the markets for several years, but these days it exists in a much reduced, online format. Nic has become more determined than ever to be the voice of change in politics, but not just for cannabis-related issues. He aims to give voters an alternative to the major parties.

Despite losing everything but his house in the December 2023 floods, Nic is rebuilding his life and is keen to represent the needs of the people of Leichhardt, the third largest electorate in Queensland (more than twice the size of Tasmania). He knows the issues and he knows people are fed up with the major parties doing nothing. He believes now is the time for a good sized crossbench to work with both the Government and opposition to get a better deal.

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

Phillip Musumeci (Greens)

I was born in Babinda and grew up on a local family farm where I did weekend work, like other neighbouring teenagers. I went to school locally before completing an engineering education in Townsville and Canberra. Now I live in Cairns with my wife and son, who attends a nearby state school.

I’ve spent almost half of my working life lecturing computer science and engineering in Melbourne, Canberra, and Cairns. Like most of us, my experiences have shaped my view of the world – and how to make it better. 

As an academic adviser at JCU Cairns, I found that students needing too many part-time jobs to try and pay their bills was a major cause of failure. With job changes now standard across our working lives, we need to support young students to get an education and older Australians who increasingly need to retrain. 

Now is the time for free, lifelong public education and training, from school, through TAFE and university so that our people enjoy more rewarding lives and become an even more valuable and productive resource in our nation.

It’s appalling that one-in-five children live in poverty in a wealthy country like ours, and a lack of affordable housing makes homelessness a real possibility for so many ordinary people. We should not have to rely on charities to provide children with the essentials for school so they have a chance for a better life. 

For years, federal governments of both major parties have directed public money to wealthy private schools while underfunding our public schools, especially in the NT and QLD. It’s plain wrong that teachers and parents have to put their hands in their pockets or rely on charity to cover classroom basics like textbooks and stationery.

The Greens will ensure public schools are funded to meet every student’s needs, support teachers, and upgrade and maintain critical infrastructure that’s sustainable and accessible. We’ll introduce “back to school” payments for parents to ensure that public schools are truly free.

From Cairns to Thursday Island, it’s obvious to those of us who live and work here that climate change is already affecting our everyday lives. Extreme rainfall events are becoming more common in Australia and the fallout from Jasper has further increased insurance costs making home ownership and rents more expensive, putting more pressure on a housing system already in crisis. Both major parties have a climate blind spot and refuse to address the cause of increasing sea levels affecting life in Torres Strait.

We have a once-off opportunity to take advantage of Australia’s renewable energy transition and scale it up to create new jobs in areas such as clean energy and cleaner metal exports. We can drive thousands of well-paid, long-term jobs, enabling workers in fossil fuel industries to transition. Overall, we can plan and manage this transition for our local FIFO workers and communities in the far north and leave nobody behind. 

When big corporations and billionaires pay their fair share in tax, everyone can have the services they need for a better life. We can build a better future with a high quality of life for our children and future generations. We can make dental and mental healthcare free, cap rent increases and build more public housing. We can make supermarket price gouging illegal and bring down the price of your weekly grocery shop. 

By putting more Greens in parliament, we can push Labor to take serious action on housing, tackle the climate crisis and keep Dutton out. 

If you want change this election, you have to vote for it. This time, vote 1 Greens.

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.