Bendigo/Federal Election 2025
OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES
GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES
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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
Wayne Taylor (LCP)
Wayne qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate
Wayne Taylor has been a passionate advocate for adult-use cannabis for many years. His commitment to legalising cannabis began from the very first moment he experienced its effects – an experience that inspired a lifelong mission to end prohibition.
Wayne played a key role on the steering committee that registered the Legalise Cannabis Party Victoria. He worked tirelessly to build support, using social media platforms to drive membership and awareness.
His first step into politics was as the second Senate candidate for Victoria in the May 2022 federal election, standing under the newly rebranded HEMP Party – now known as the Legalise Cannabis Party. He ran again in November 2022 for the seat of Bendigo West in the Victorian state election.
While Wayne is passionate about a range of political issues, it was the injustice of cannabis prohibition that drew him into the political arena. With a background in real estate and small business management, he brings practical knowledge and a results-driven approach to everything he does.
Wayne believes that legalising cannabis could help Australia reclaim its reputation as the lucky country.
LCP endorses the 3R’s and supports the Climate Rescue Accord
Rohan Tyler (Victorian Socialists)
I’m a proud socialist and a young person born and raised in the Bendigo region – working and studying here.
As a young person I am uniquely affected by the growing housing crisis. Many young people struggle even to enter the rental market and the prospect of ever owning a house is becoming more distant by the day. We desperately need an expanded public housing sector that can actually provide for people currently struggling with housing insecurity or homelessness.
The growth of the far right in Australia and internationally is a big concern for many people of my generation – particularly those within the queer community. Trans rights are being stripped away by right-wing parties including the Liberals while trans kids are facing constant attacks from right-wing politicians and media – leading to lifelong mental health struggles.
The rights of workers are also under attack. Billionaires and the super-rich exercise unfair influence over our political system – entrenching exploitation, wage theft and poor conditions with the support of their paid political servants in the major parties.
Workers create all the wealth that’s enriching those at the top of society. Meanwhile, they lecture us about the need for “wage constraint” while profiteering from their control of essential resources and services. Increased unionisation of workers and the establishment of greater democracy at a workplace level is the only way to combat the one-sided class war being waged against us.
I’m also passionate about addressing the climate crisis. The Liberals ignore this entirely, while Labor offers only band-aid solutions that do nothing real to limit emissions. It’s the working class that will bear the brunt of climate change, not those who are responsible for it. The economic burden of dealing with the climate and environmental crisis must fall primarily on those who have profited from destroying the environment: the big polluters and other major corporations.
By running as a Victorian Socialists candidate in this election I hope to shake up the kind of ‘politics as usual’ that has brought us to a point where my generation has little hope for the future. Australia is among the richest countries on Earth – we can afford to build a more just, equal and sustainable society where everyone has a chance at a decent life.
To do that though we need to get organised and fight back. Our campaign in Bendigo will be a small step in that direction. Get involved!
Avery Barnett-Dacey (Greens)
I’m a local parent, community organiser, activist, and photographer passionate about creating a fairer, more sustainable future for Bendigo. Growing up here and now raising my child in this community, I’ve witnessed the challenges we face—from skyrocketing rents and housing insecurity to the mental health crisis and climate inaction.
Over the past year, my journey in grassroots activism has inspired me to take on a leadership role. I’ve worked with movements for climate justice, Indigenous rights, and human rights, including supporting the Free Palestine movement. These experiences have shown me the power of community-led change and the urgent need for leadership that prioritises equity, sustainability, and compassion.
I’m committed to amplifying the voices of Bendigo’s multicultural and indigenous communities, queer individuals, and those facing systemic pressures. If you want to build a future that leaves no one behind, then Vote 1 Greens.
TRAFFIC LIGHT VOTING GUIDE ASSESSMENT WARNINGTRAFFIC 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.