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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

Martin Barry (Greens)

I’m a public servant, a renter trying to save for a house and I’m feeling the cost-of-living bite. I want to see Hotham represented by somebody who knows what everyday Aussies are going through and has a plan to make things better.

I hear it from my neighbours, I hear it from my footy teammates, I hear it from people at the dog park. More needs be done.

It’s time politicians became more ambitious and got the courage to make changes people can actually feel. But the major parties are too busy yelling at each other over irrelevant culture wars to try and score meaningless points. We can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expecting a different result.

If you want change, the first step is to vote for it. This time, vote 1 Greens.   

We have a plan to achieve this, including among many things, to:

• Build affordable homes to rent and buy by establishing a Public Builder for 200,000 quality new homes.

• Lower grocery bills by capping prices on essentials and making price-gouging illegal.

• Expand Medicare by covering dental and mental healthcare and increasing GP bulk-billing rates.

• Fix our Public Education system by fully funding our schools, boosting pay to attract top teachers and ensuring no school is left behind.

You can find our full policy platform here: https://greens.org.au/platform

I’ve advocated for multicultural, migrant and refugee communities by supporting people to navigate the system and elevate their voice to parliament. But it shouldn’t be so hard for you to have your voice heard.

In Hotham, that will change with me. You’ll have a representative who lives in the community, plays footy in the community and is accessible to the community 

Vote 1 Greens to demand better for Hotham!

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 on 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.