OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Miranda Smith

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Luke Skinner

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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.

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

Miranda Smith (AJP)

Miranda qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Miranda has spent over a decade advocating for change through the political system—because she believes every animal deserves to live free from pain, fear and suffering. Whether it’s farmed animals, wildlife, or the companion animals we share our homes with, Miranda believes it is our responsibility to stand up, speak out, and protect them.

Miranda’s commitment to animal justice is long-standing. She has volunteered with the Animal Justice Party since 2013 in both Victoria and South Australia, held leadership roles including South Australian Convenor, and worked directly for Victorian MP Andy Meddick as his Media and Communications Adviser.

Professionally, Miranda holds a Masters in Marketing and brings nearly 20 years of senior leadership experience. She now runs her own marketing consultancy supporting mental health practitioners—combining her skills in communication with her passion for creating real change in the world.

Born and raised in Adelaide, Miranda is deeply connected to South Australia. If elected, she will fight to end factory farming and live animal export, protect our wildlife, strengthen cruelty laws, and ensure every companion animal has access to veterinary care. Miranda believes that compassion and justice should be the foundation of all political decisions.

She is ready to bring the voices of animals into the federal arena and help create a kinder future for all.

AJP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord

Luke Skinner (Greens)

I’m running because I believe there’s a lack of integrity in modern day politics. I want to be a part of the solution, a fighter, advocating for what really matters.

I was born and raised in the seat of Spence, where I lived for the majority of my life. I’ve been active in the electorate with various organizations, fighting poverty and providing essential food, water, menstrual products, and clothing to people facing severe housing insecurity. I’ve seen first hand the effect that the cost of living and housing crises is having on people.

Since I was very young, I have been bringing the real issues that face us all to the offices of politicians, through meetings and community activism. It’s this experience that I want to take to Canberra to hold politicians to account.

A lot of renters are just one rent increase away from being forced out of their homes. We’re being told that the average person would have to save for over sixty years before they could afford a home. For some, university debts are growing faster than they can be paid off. The Greens have a plan to fix these problems and more.

The Greens want to take on the price-gouging corporations, tax them and fund the things we all need: a freeze and cap on rent increases, making sure you can see the doctor for free, wiping all student debt, and ending the billions in public handouts to coal, oil and gas corporations.

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.