Here is your Traffic Light Voting Guide for Pumicestone. You can download the guide to your own computer, print, and fill it in at home and then take it to the polling booth with you. It’s super easy then to transfer your choices onto the ballot paper.  Alternatively, take your phone with you when you head off to vote, and you can then access our advice on the screen.

In the meantime, you can scroll down this page to check out the Green Light Candidate profiles in your electorate.

The team at Vote Climate One encourages all candidates to support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord to underpin any decisions in the Queensland Legislative Assembly relating to action on the climate emergency.

If you have any information which may inform our candidate assessments please use our contact form at the bottom of this page or phone Rob on 0427 580803

Green Light Candidates

Rosemary Doolan (LCQ)

Rosie qualifies as an Outstanding Green Light Candidate.

The Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party endorses the vision of the Climate Rescue Accord, to stop and reverse global heating, and recognise the 3Rs as commensurate action to achieve that vision, and have adopted or are on the path to adopting a comprehensive suite of the 3Rs in their policies.

Hemp has some impressive environmental credentials. It grows faster than most weeds, negating the need for herbicides and it is fairly pest resistant. Two crops can be grown per season. It is an excellent crop for carbon sequestration and it can be used to make a strong and pest-resistant building material called hempcrete that continues to absorb carbon dioxide as it cures.

We need urgent measures to stop plastic pollution. Our lives and future depend on it. Bio-plastic materials offer significant advantages for the environment. As they are not made from fossil fuels, they do not produce carbon dioxide when decomposing. In addition, most of them are biodegradable. Everything indicates that they could be an especially important part of solving the climate crisis. Hemp is increasingly being recognised as having tremendous potential in our natural ‘toolbox’ of promising crops for bioplastics.

Policy Statements

• We care about the future of our planet. A greener bent will give our children and our grandchildren clean/er air and clean/er water. Each of us must try to do our part to innovate, change and respect the environment. Our lives and future depend on it!
• Plastic waste chokes the planet. Petrochemicals are found in a wide array of household items, from plastic wrap and rubbish bags to plastic bottles. Hemp based plastics decompose in months rather than decades
• Bio-futures is one of the opportunities that will support future economic development, open the door to new investment and grow employment in regional areas of Queensland
• Bio-products offer a renewable and environmentally beneficial alternative to existing conventional chemical and fossil fuel refining processes
• Transitioning to biofuel power stations would lower emissions and create a carbon neutral cycle and thus reduced greenhouse gasses.
• Reducing our own dependence on mining will protect our water tables from contamination. Fracking would be completely off the agenda

Legalise Cannabis Queensland endorses the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord

Richard Ogden (Greens)

I’ve worked as a communication professional in small business, government and community organisations. Having experience in public relations, event management, media production and teaching has made me a good listener and given me insight into how best to represent and amplify the voices of our community. I understand business and ran a successful chamber of commerce, as well as having significant experience in the environment sector.

Recent natural disasters and the housing and cost-of-living crises have revealed severe flaws in our system, and highlighted the fault lines we must repair to build a better future for all of us.

Effective financial management doesn’t require us to choose between looking after people and the environment and a prosperous economy. Greens priorities, smart, evidence-based policies, make it possible to ensure both. We owe it to future generations to value our natural wonders,  and promote sustainable industries to grant every Queenslander access to the things they need to live a good life.

We champion fairness as a society, so we shouldn’t stand by and allow big corporations to pay next to no tax and make huge donations to the old parties. They should be governing for us – not for the highest bidder. The Greens don’t take corporate donations – we govern for you. 

We will take on the big corporations ripping off Queenslanders, and will challenge them to act transparently and pay fairer tax to fund the building of 100,000 public homes, properly fund schools, provide free childcare, hospitals and essential services. We’ll also freeze rents and cap increases because housing is a human right.

The Greens will make groceries cheaper by breaking up the duopoly power of Coles and Woolies and stopping corporate price gouging for essentials. We’ll cut power bills with 100% publicly owned renewable energy, and take back control of our economy by bringing key infrastructure and services into public ownership. 

Together, we can create a better future for everyone in Pumicestone. Will you help me?