This page describes the game plan for Strategic Preferencing. This powerful voting tactic involves the strategic ranking of your Red Light candidate preferences in identified Red Light electorates. Strategic Preferencing is the pathway to Minority Government. It will emerge from flipping the following three kinds of Red Light Electorates away from Labor.

Priority One Red Light electorates are those held by Labor which are being challenged by a Green Light independent.

Anyone voting in one of these electorates has a uniquely powerful opportunity to help create good minority goverment by putting Labor last in Priority One Red Light Electorates .

For voters who find this difficult advice to swallow, bear in mind you are actually assisting Labor to better govern by elevating the influence of a progressive cross bench. You are not voting Labor out of office. You are coaxing them towards better government. Strategic preferencing is not an anti-Labor vote. When it comes to choosing between the two major parties Labor is the better of the two evils on current performance and policy. It may sometimes be counterintuitive, but nevertheless, in our electoral system, how you rank the major parties is pivotal to influencing the outcome.

Whoever you have voted for in the past, please vote stategically in 2028 to support social justice and all life on our planet. Our world is in deep trouble. Vote Labor Last.

Priority Two electorates are those held by Labor which are being challenged by a Green Light candidate from either a minor or micro party.

• Cooper
• Melbourne
• McNamara

Once again, if you vote in one of these electorates, when you preference the red light candidates put Labor last on your ballot paper. We call this strategic preferencing. It is neither anti-Labor or pro-Coalition. This is how to vote for a Federal parliament of national unity which will better govern with a primary aim of creating a fair future for us all.

Priority Three Red light electorates are those held by Labor which are being challenged by a coalition candidate.

• Bendigo

The identification of Red Light electorates is fluid and can change as an election campaign unfolds. At the moment the evidence suggests that putting Labor last in Priority Three Red Light Electorates is the best chance to create a Federal parliament of national unity. The results of the 2025 Federal Election have delivered a huge total number of seats in the House of Representitives for Labor. To help reduce Labor’s majority to as low as 70 seats, our preference advice is now heavily weighted to putting Labor last in all Red Light electorates including Priority Three electorates. Given the current Coalition trainwreck, a Labor minority government is our best bet for a fair future for us all. Nevertheless, our advice for Priority Three Red Light electorates could change if future polling indicates a Coalition resurgence.

Putting Labor last will be counterintuitive for some voters. Strategic preferencing is not about choosing who you hate or who you love. Its not even about choosing someone who will represent your views in parliament. Democratic renewal demands we rise above our tribalism for the collective good of all Australians. Strategic preferencing on top of Traffic Light voting by enough voters in 2028 could deliver the balance of power to the re-elected and newly-elected Green Light cross benchers in our 49th parliament.