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Here’s how you can make climate a compelling issue locally.

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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

John August (Fusion)

John qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate

Hi I’m John August. I’ve long been concerned about the injustices and problems around us. I’ve
stood for the Secular Party and Pirate Party in times past, and now stand for the Pirate branch
of Fusion for the seat of Bennelong. I’m concerned about many things, and need to focus on just a few here.

The Cost of Living and Housing Affordability

Our economy is out of balance because of how housing is treated as an investment. Rather than
increasing supply, the price is ratcheted up. Reforming our tax system will not just improve
housing affordability, but will also help our economy focus on genuine wealth building rather
than distractions.

Our cities become less and less liveable as we play infrastructure catch up. Rather than
building first and then putting in infrastructure later, we need to get ahead of the curve.

Climate change is a reality which increases our insurance premiums, meaning additional cost of
living pressures. We need to do our bit, and not just because it is the right thing to do.

Foreign Policy and Whistleblowing

While the major parties try to sell us on “mateship” and the “fair go”, that wasn’t how we
treated Timor Leste, along with Witness K and Bernard Collaery. We’ve treated other whistleblowers
badly too. It’s not just a matter of justice – we can only imagine the economic boost we’d have
if we made a serious go at reducing corruption – and supporting whistleblowers is an important
part of that, with recent supposed advances falling flat.

We need to make our foreign policy more principled and independent of the US, and forge our own
path. This was always the case, but is now even more relevant with the US going off the
rails. We need to pull out of AUKUS and find our own path.

Julian Assange was left to wither on the vine till he was ultimately released, without
any recognition of the good he has done. Our Governments’ approach was in contrast to how we
deal with Australians in trouble overseas, when standing up doesn’t inconvenience a nation
we’re fawning up to.

Rather than training our own people, we’re drawing on skilled migrants from less well of
countries. We’re parasitising, and we should really subtract this cost from our foreign
aid budget to get a real understanding of whether we’re actually helping the rest of the
world.

Surveillance Capitalism, Government Surveillance and corporate abuse

When social media knows enough about us, they can predict our behaviour better than we can,
and rather than “advertising” they have “markets in behavioural futures”, packaging and
selling our future actions. Such orchestration also undermines our democracy and what it
means to be a human being. Government surveillance also increases step by step as well.
This is something we need to challenge, to reclaim our own identities.

Along with junk mail and spam, corporations recruit our desires to change the world in a
positive way, as so we as candidates receive orchestrated spam from sites like dogooder.com .
We need to all engage in genuine activism, rather than have our goodwill harnessed for
other’s profits.

And so I say this to you: I’ll try to answer any genuine questions, but only if you choose
to engage directly with me, but not through such third party sites. I cherish my genuine
engagement with the world, and hope you will appreciate something similar yourself.

There’s also my website, https://johnaugust.com.au

But, further, let me say, I do my best and cannot be all things to all people.
Regardless of who you vote for, I hope you will find someone you feel comfortable voting for.

The Fusion Party endorses the 3R’s and supports the Climate Rescue Accord

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.