Here is your Traffic Light Voting Guide for Rockhampton. 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

Jacinta Waller (LCQ)

Jacinta 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.

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

Mick Jones (Greens)

I was born and raised in Mount Isa, before my family moved to Rockhampton. After attending CQU, I fought a long and bitter battle with a life threatening illness. I’m deeply grateful to healthcare workers in Rockhampton – amazing people who do their absolute best in an underfunded, understaffed regional health care system.

Experiences like this taught me the steep cost that regional communities pay as successive Liberal and Labor governments fail to support essential services like health and education. After getting back on my feet, I decided to volunteer his time to help build a movement for change in Central QLD.

All over Queensland, people are doing it tough.

We face skyrocketing costs of living, while the big parties cut funding from services we need, and pump our region’s wealth into the mega-profits of billionaires and big corporations. Taxpayer subsidised property investors crank up rents and the price of housing, while Woolworths and Coles engage in blatant, unregulated price gouging.

Tens of billions in subsidies go into coal and gas, but there’s no clear path forward for our mining communities, or workers in the sector – particularly with the current attack on the union movement. And as renewable energy finally rolls out across QLD, we face genuine issues as the transition seems to be planned for the profits of big corporations, instead of community benefit.

That’s not surprising when we consider that the LNP, Labor, and other parties take massive corporate donations.

Their actions benefit their donors and lobbyists, not everyday Queenslanders – particularly in the regions. These cynical political operators take advantage of our community, and seek to divide us – scapegoating people in need of support, and offering false solutions that make matters worse.

But we’ve also had some real wins and good news. At our last election we added a second Greens Senator in Queensland, as public school teacher Penny Allman-Payne walked out of the classroom and into the party room, and set up shop just down the road in Gladstone. And we’ve forced concessions from the big parties, including the recent 50c bus fares, and billions more in funding to combat the housing crisis.

During that time I’ve worked with a team of local activists and campaigners to build a political project that people in our community are calling out for. We’ve had hundreds of conversations with locals from all walks of life, we’ve supported and consulted with community groups on the front line, and travelled all over the region in the process.

We can build a better kind of politics, one that serves the needs of our community, and ensures a brighter future for Central Queensland. We can have the services we need like free, high quality education and health care, and vital infrastructure like public transport, renewable energy, and affordable housing. We can fund this by making big corporations and property investors pay their fair share. 

The Greens can make this happen, because we don’t take corporate donations, we reject the old, broken politics, and we’re building a people powered movement for change that keeps us close to the community.

Join us in making a real difference at this election.