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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

Emma Buhse (Greens)

I love living in Gympie and I love this beautiful part of the world. After arriving from the Sunshine Coast 20 years ago, I fell in love with the shift in gears that our more laid back and friendly community provides. 

I’m a person with a disability and an ambulatory wheelchair user. Over the last five years, I’ve started to traverse around the area in my power wheelchair (sometimes with my beautiful dog, Nutmeg, who you may have met!) and connect with people. 

I have a massive love for volunteering, assisting at events and supporting local community groups to grow while also encouraging accessibility and inclusion. I think it’s important to turn my own lived experience in disability, health services and homelessness into action and advocacy to help others experiencing those same issues.

I want to see everyone in our community gain the services and support they genuinely need to stay and grow in the area for many generations to come. Unfortunately, the most vulnerable people in our community are struggling to keep their heads above water with the rising cost of living  and the horrific ongoing housing crisis. People with disabilities, elderly people, young people, single parents and their children make up a large cohort of those finding it tough. Human services are over capacity with requests for help and understaffed or underfunded to do so.

Meanwhile, the major parties continue to pander to their corporate donors instead of looking after the needs of everyday people like you and me.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

When we unite together, we can flip the script. We can have high quality and genuinely free public education. We can expand Medicare to include mental health and dental care and make it available for everyone when they need it, without a massive bill. We can have affordable and accessible housing by introducing rent caps and regulating the banks to make mortgages cheaper. We can bring down the cost of electricity and take strong action on climate change by expanding publicly owned renewables and rooftop solar. 

Labor and the Liberals are not serious about real change. They are funded by the very corporations profiting off the cost of living crisis.

The Greens aren’t. We cannot be bought and we will not sell out.

We can lift the area up so that everyone has what they need to live a good life. If we get the basics right now and plan for the future, things will be a bit brighter for everyone.

If you want change 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.