OUTSTANDING GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Shelley Leech

GREEN LIGHT CANDIDATES

Clint Uink

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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

Shelley Leech (LCP)

Shelley’s details will go up her when they are become available

LCP supports the 3Rs and endorses the Climate Rescue Accord

Clint Uink (Greens)

I am a Noongar man, living on Noongar Country. I have both Noongar and migrant roots in Swan going back over 50 years. For the past decade, I’ve worked for  housing and community organisations, to ensure everyone has a safe and secure place to call home, and to tackle the rising cost of living. 

My parents were both active unionists. They raised me to believe that every worker has a right to decent pay and working conditions, and should not be expected to work in an unsafe environment. Throughout my working life I’ve fought for my colleagues and represented my workplace as a union delegate. I’ve spent years negotiating at the bargaining table, fighting against anti-worker bargaining policies. I have taken that fight to Labor governments and Liberal governments, and seen them use the same tactics to undermine our rights.

I’ve seen what happens in communities where secure, affordable housing is not available. For the past two years I’ve worked for WA’s peak housing organisations, and I understand first hand the impacts the housing crisis is having on our communities. Labor and Liberal governments have let us down. They prop up wealthy property investors and the big banks, rather than fully funding a big build of affordable housing. In parliament, I will work to end homelessness and give renters more security by freezing and capping rents, ending no grounds evictions, and bringing short-term rentals and vacant properties back into the long-term rental supply.  

Every day I speak with community members who are worried about the cost of rent, food, and their mortgages. Our community is getting ripped off by big corporations making record profits, while Labor and the Liberals pocket their donations.

It’s time to change the system. If we tax corporations we can fund the things we need, like free childcare, university & TAFE, and an end to student debt. I will fight for proper funding for social services and mental health services in Western Australia. As a Noongar man, I have a responsibility to care for Country. Our ancestors took care of our Country, so it would take care of all who live on it. Our Country and our climate are being threatened by coal and gas companies. Instead of making them pay their fair share of tax, Labor is giving them billions in handouts and giving the green light for new gas projects.

We deserve a government that will listen to the science and who works for our community, not the big businesses looking to exploit us and destroy our Country. . 

Change is possible but we’re going to have to fight for it. We can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expecting a different result. This election, Vote 1 Greens.

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.