OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Penelope Young

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Abbey Bishop

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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

Penelope Young (LCP)

Penelope qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Penelope Young is a dedicated registered nurse with a Master of Nursing in Leading and Management, as well as a qualified mediator. With a deep commitment to healthcare and advocacy, she has spent years championing patient rights and exploring innovative solutions for community well-being.

Penelope has been with her husband, an anaesthetist, for 23 years and married for 19. Together, they have raised three teenage children while enjoying life in the Perth Hills, where they have lived for the past decade.

She has strong roots in Western Australia, with a proud family history that includes a connection to Shirley Strickland, the first female athlete to win Olympic gold in the hurdles in the 1960s. A passionate advocate for sustainable agriculture, Penelope has grown industrial hemp and firmly believes in its potential to boost both community health and economic prosperity.

For nearly two decades, she has studied the therapeutic benefits of THC, becoming a vocal proponent of cannabis legalisation. Driven by extensive research demonstrating its medicinal value, she stands with the many hardworking Australians fighting to reform outdated laws. To her, maintaining cannabis prohibition is nothing short of a crime against humanity.

Now, Penelope is taking her advocacy to the national stage. She is running as a candidate for the federal electorate of Bullwinkel, Perth, in the upcoming May 3rd election. With a vision for a healthier, more prosperous future, she is determined to lead the way in making cannabis and hemp legal, accessible, and beneficial for all Australians.

LCP endorses the 3R’s and supports the Climate Rescue Accord

Abbey Bishop (Greens)

I grew up in Helena Valley and Bellevue, but my connection to the communities of Bullwinkel stretches back decades before I was born. My grandparents still live in the same Hills home they’ve lived in for more than 40 years, which I still visit regularly.

I put my hand up to run in Bullwinkel because I want to see change for this beautiful part of the world. While our communities struggle under the skyrocketing costs of housing, rent, groceries and power bills, the major parties continue to prioritise the profits of their corporate donors. I’m hearing from so many locals who feel totally neglected by the decisions their so-called representatives are making in Parliament.

As a young person, I feel the weight of that neglect every single day. Despite working three jobs, I can’t afford to move out of my parents’ house and I feel little to no hope of ever buying a home of my own. That shouldn’t make me lucky, but I’ve watched so many friends forced to move home or drop out of uni because they can’t afford to pay rent and study at the same time.

Like so many people my age, I’m also terrified about how the major parties’ inaction on the climate crisis will shape my future. Our summers are already noticeably hotter and our precious water supplies are drying up. And with our abundance of national parks and bush, so many Bullwinkel communities are at significant risk from the longer and more dangerous fire seasons we’re seeing each year.

We can’t keep voting for the same parties and expect different results. 

This federal election, Bullwinkel has the unique opportunity to ensure our first ever MP is someone who’ll actually put the community first. And as your Greens candidate for Bullwinkel, I’m so proud of our bold plan to really tackle the big issues getting worse under the major parties – and our robust plan to pay for it by making big corporations pay their fair share.

Bullwinkel is ready for change. I’m ready to fight for it if you’re ready 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.