OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Alex Bainbridge

Joshua Riethmuller

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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

Alex Bainbridge (Socialist Alliance)

Alex Bainbridge is a Green Left photographer and journalist and long time socialist activist.

He has played active and leading roles in a large number of social movement campaigns over 35 years. Currently, he is active in Justice for Palestine Magan-djin.

Alex believes that the genocide in Gaza is a wake up call for us all. “If the rich countries like the USA and Australia can get away with supporting a live-streamed genocide in the 21st century, it will shape the entire future for all humanity.”

“You can’t expect justice for yourself if you’re not prepared to support justice for others. Similarly, defending our rights here depends on us standing up against injustices”

Jim Chalmers presides over an electorate where more than 70% of all households are facing housing stress (85% of renters are in rental stress)! As treasurer, he could be taking steps to solve the housing crisis, but so far the Labor government has only made the most inadequate, tokenistic response.

“I’m running to help build up the popular resistance to whichever capitalist government is elected – Labor or Liberal. It’s true we’ve got a long way to go, but we have to start here and now.”

Joshua Riethmuller (Greens)

If you’re worried about the cost of living, housing or climate crisis, you’re not alone.

In a wealthy country like ours, everyone should be able to afford the basics: a home, food, and access to world class healthcare and education. 

Right now, you’re paying too much while 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax.

Instead of working for you, the two major parties take millions in donations from big corporations. They donate because it gets them results. The Greens don’t take donations from billionaires and big corporations. We can’t be bought. 

We should make big corporations and billionaires pay their fair share of tax, raising over $514b to fund the things we all need: dental and mental health into Medicare, to see the GP for free, cap rent increases and lower mortgages and strong climate action, not more coal and gas.

If you want change, the first step is 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.