OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Omar Hassan

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Loki Sangarya

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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

Omar Hassan (Victorian Socialists)

I’m a teacher working in public schools in Melbourne’s north. I’ve seen first hand how our community has been neglected by both Liberal and Labor governments.

The majority of Scullin residents are working-class people struggling with out of control inflation and high rents and interest rates. We need a government that takes real action to improve living standards, and to provide the services we need to give our kids a chance in life.

The Labor Party has held this seat since it was created more than 50 years ago. Many have supported them because they claimed to be a party that would fight for workers and migrants, and stand for peace. But Labor has betrayed that promise.

Today, the party prioritises the interests of big business over its working-class supporters. And in the past two years, Labor has supported and enabled the genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people.

They don’t deserve to represent the people of Scullin anymore. That’s why I’m running to represent Scullin at this year’s federal election.

I’ve spent many years campaigning for more funding for hospitals, schools, public transport and public housing. I have also been fighting for the Palestinian cause for decades, and have helped organise many pro-Palestine rallies and events since the beginning of the latest war.

At the upcoming federal election, I want to give you a real alternative to more Labor betrayal.

Loki Sangarya (Greens)

I’m an engineer, activist, and unionist, fighting for a future where everyone can afford to live and thrive in a safe climate. As a  water and wastewater treatment engineer, I have worked on the frontlines of climate risks in Victoria and New Zealand.

I’m disillusioned with the two major political parties who continue to take millions of dollars in corporate donations and put their corporate mates before you. 

The major parties are failing to address the many issues that our community faces, including the cost of living, the worsening housing crisis, the lack of climate action, rising grocery prices, and the genocide in Gaza. 

I’m proud to be part of a party that doesn’t accept corporate donations and is fighting for no new coal and gas, publicly owned renewable energy, cheaper groceries, mortgage rate caps, and a rent freeze. 

We want to make big corporations pay their fair share of tax and fund things we all need, like dental and mental health into Medicare, government-built homes to rent and buy, cheaper mortgages, and 50 cent public transport fares.

In a wealthy country like ours, everyone should be able to afford the basics, and governments should actually solve the problems we face.

The electorate of Sculllin knows they deserve more, and I am ready to demand it. If you want change, it’s time to vote for it. 

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.