McEwen/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.
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Green Light Candidates
Erin McGrath (Fusion)
Erin is an Outstanding Green Light Candidate
Erin McGrath is a disability advocate, community supporter, and champion for fairness in the Division of McEwen. With a background in customer service and advocacy, Erin understands the real challenges people face—from cost-of-living pressures to accessing essential services like healthcare and the NDIS.
As someone who experiences the NDIS firsthand, Erin has seen the gaps and inefficiencies in the system. Now, she’s stepping up to fight for real reforms that ensure every Australian gets the support they deserve.
A Voice for the People
Erin is committed to creating a fairer, more inclusive community. Her priorities include:
✅ Tackling the cost of living—ensuring housing, utilities, and daily essentials remain affordable.
✅ Fixing the NDIS & aged care—so those who need support receive it without delays or red tape.
✅ Strengthening healthcare & Medicare—improving hospital services, mental health support, and accessibility.
✅ Upgrading road infrastructure—reducing congestion and improving safety.
✅ Advocating for social security reforms—ensuring fairer payments and eligibility criteria.
✅ Championing Indigenous rights—amplifying representation and support for First Nations communities.
Erin believes politics should be about people—not just policies. She is ready to fight for a community where everyone feels heard, valued, and supported.
The Fusion Party endorses the 3R’s and supports the Climate Rescue Accord
Tom Forrest (LCP)
Tom qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate
Tom Forrest is a global leader in the cannabis industry and the first ever Churchill Fellow for Cannabis Agronomy. He is the author of a White Paper on cannabis botany, global industry trends and best-practice cultivation for the Australian market.
With formal qualifications in business, horticulture and protected cropping, and specialist training in hydroponics and plant botany, Tom brings deep expertise across both science and industry. His intimate knowledge of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis cultivation, combined with business and marketing skills, has made him a sought-after speaker, lecturer and advisor in the field.
Named ‘Advocate of the Year’ at the 2022 Australian Cannabis Awards, Tom is known for his commitment to building a sustainable and collaborative cannabis sector across the Asia-Pacific. His farm has won both the Environmental, Social and Governance Award and the Industry Collaboration Award at the Cannabis Industry Awards.
Tom has led successful cannabis projects in Australia and New Zealand, working with ASX-listed companies, universities and private businesses. He is the Co-founder and Cultivation Director at Puro (NZ), Managing Director of Indicated Technology (VIC), and Communications Manager at Stealth Garden Wholesale (SA).
LCP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord
Chloe Nicolosi (AJP)
Chloe qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate
A lifelong voice for animals
Chloe Nicolosi has been a passionate advocate for animal welfare from a young age. In 2013, she was awarded Zoos Victoria’s Young Advocate of the Year for her role in the Don’t Palm Us Off campaign—and she hasn’t stopped fighting for animals since.
Bringing innovation to advocacy
Now proudly standing as the Animal Justice Party candidate for McEwen, Chloe brings a powerful combination of policy knowledge, technical insight, and lived advocacy experience. As a corporate analyst working with emerging technologies, she is passionate about harnessing innovation to drive social and animal justice. With qualifications in Information Technology and Psychology, she is currently completing a Juris Doctor to strengthen her ability to enact legislative change.
Ending cruelty and driving food system reform
Chloe is committed to ending live animal export, a trade that inflicts immense cruelty on animals during long, harrowing journeys. She also supports phasing out factory farming—not just to end the suffering of millions of animals, but to address the climate crisis. Animal agriculture is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions, and Chloe advocates for government investment in cultivated meat and precision fermentation as ethical, sustainable solutions. She has been a vocal supporter of Magic Valley, an Australian leader in this emerging field.
Fighting for fair housing
Chloe’s compassion extends to people, too. As a volunteer paralegal, she has supported tenants facing unfair treatment from landlords and helped them navigate VCAT disputes. This hands-on work has deepened her belief that affordable housing is a fundamental right. She supports policies that limit negative gearing and increase investment in public and social housing.
Protecting our native wildlife
Chloe is a fierce defender of Australia’s wildlife. She supports a ban on 1080 poison and recreational hunting, both of which cause immense suffering and threaten fragile ecosystems. Her vision is for a country that values and protects its native species through humane, non-lethal management.
In her own time
When not studying or campaigning, Chloe enjoys reading, playing guitar, and spending time with her beloved animal companions—Molly, her border collie, and Dennis, her rescue cat.
AJP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord
Marley McRae McLeod (Greens)
I’m a mental health peer worker and a student of psychology and gender studies, deeply committed to community, justice, and meaningful change. In McEwen, I see firsthand the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis, mental health care inaccessibility, and climate inaction. Our community deserves better.
McEwen is diverse and growing, yet we are too often overlooked by politicians who lack the ambition to create real change. Housing is unaffordable, public transport is inadequate, and mental healthcare remains out of reach for many. I believe in the power of lived experience—when we listen to those most affected, we make better decisions.
The Greens’ plan to bring mental healthcare into Medicare, fully fund public schools, and tackle the climate crisis will transform our community. Change won’t come from major parties who put corporate interests first—it will come from us, together, demanding a fairer, more sustainable future
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.