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.

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Strategic Preferencing by enough voters can clear the path to Minority Government. It will emerge from flipping Red Light Electorates away from Labor. Each red light electorate is carefully assessed before an election campaign begins. If the political climate warrants it, this strategic preferencing advice will be up dated during the campaign. Its a real balancing act given we have to avoid the danger of flipping so far we end up with a coalition Liberal/National party government in bed with One Nation. Nevertheless some seats will have to flip away from Labor to a red light party to drag them back from the current 94 seat luxury they now enjoy.

Red Light electorates are those held by Labor which are being challenged by a Green Light Minor or Micro party or independent.

• Cooper
• Melbourne
• McNamara

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 in Red Light Electorates.

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.

Second Tier 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 some Second Tier 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 some Second Tier electorates. Given the current Coalition trainwreck and the resrgence of One Nation, a Labor minority government is our best bet for a fair future for us all. Nevertheless, our advice in Second Tier 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 a re-elected and newly-elected Green Light cross bench in our 49th parliament.

Most of this advice is also relevant to State elections.