Forrest/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
Aaron Peet (LCP)
Aaron qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate
Aaron Peet is a psychotherapist, counsellor and founder of a mental health services charity providing free therapy and support to at-risk communities. He’s passionate about helping others and has dedicated his life to serving those who are too often left behind.
A strong believer in sustainability and self-reliance, Aaron is also a regenerative agriculture and permaculture farmer. He lives in the Forrest electorate with his wife and children, raising his family on values of honesty, community and care for the land.
Like many Australians, Aaron is fed up with getting the raw end of the deal while big corporations call the shots. He’s standing up because he’s tired of seeing people ignored by politicians who are out of touch. He’s here to put people before profits and fight for a fairer future.
LCP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord
Sue Chapman (Independent)
Environment Priorities for Forrest
The South West is one of only 36 recognised biodiversity hotspots. For millennia, the region was isolated from the rest of Australia by vast central deserts, resulting in significant endemic plant species unique to the area. Our forests, woodlands, shrublands and heaths are also home to a wide variety of reptile species. Today, less than 30 per cent of the South West’s original vegetation remains due to the impacts of mining, population growth and agricultural expansion. We have a responsibility to protect this precious environment for our kids and grandkids.
We can have a strong local economy without destroying our unique and much-loved natural environments. All it requires is a commitment to evidence-based solutions and honest, collaborative leadership. When local communities are ignored and silenced to allow developers to bulldoze ancient bushland, you know our environmental laws are broken.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
As your Independent MP, I will work constructively with all tiers of government to:
- Prevent unnecessary clearing of native vegetation
- Uphold international agreements with emissions reduction targets and environmental protection goals
- Ensure the environmental impacts of renewable energy projects are minimised and their community benefits are maximised
- Support farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices through local Sustainable Agricultural Facilitators.
- Advocate for waste minimisation, recycling and building sustainable circular economies of scale
- Encourage regenerative farming techniques and farm diversification
- Avoid opening up new offshore gas fields and fracking
- Ensure effective environmental rehabilitation and restoration of mining sites
Together, we can do politics differently by caring for the environment and ensuring our communities thrive.
Sue is part of the Community Independents Project
Georgia Beardman (Greens)
Living in the only subsidised, affordable housing in Dunsborough, I’ve experienced first hand how important a safe, secure home can be in providing people the sense of stability they need to live a good life – and how scary it can be to have that stability pulled from under our feet.
I’ve also seen first hand the power of people. When communities mobilise and connect over things they care about, they have the power to bring about real change. The seat of Forrest is ready for change.
WA is facing a housing and cost of living crisis, and the major parties are tinkering around the edges, while handing $176 billion in tax handouts to wealthy property investors.
We’re also bearing the brunt of climate change in the South West. As we grow accustomed to “once in a lifetime” fire seasons and heatwaves that are becoming the norm, Labor have approved 23 coal and gas projects since they got into government.
Meanwhile, the supermarket duopoly continues to rip off farmers and gouge us at the checkout, all while the major parties take donations from Coles and Woolworths.
The Greens have a plan: to fix housing, stop coal and gas projects, and to make supermarket price gouging illegal.
It won’t happen overnight, but the first step to changing things for the better is voting for someone who is fighting for it. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
This election, I’m fighting for change. I’d love to have you join me to help turn Forrest Green. Sign up to volunteer on our team!
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.