Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for Footscray. The Box Hill guide for voters will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.

Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for the Victorian Upper House in the WESTERN METROPOLITAN REGION. The EASTERN METROPOLITAN REGION guide for voters in Box Hill will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.

Voting Traffic Light in the 2026 Victorian State Election

You will receive two ballot papers to vote for your preferred candidates in the Victorian House of Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council .

To vote Traffic Light, vote for all the Green Light candidates or parties first, then the Orange Light ones. Number the red light candidates last.

Red light candidates are threat to achieving a fair future for us all not just in relation to Climate Rescue, but also a range of social issues most of us are concerned about. The order you number the Red Light candidates will have a significant effect on creating a good outcome at this election. We describe this advice as Strategic Preferencing. Strategic Preferencing combined with your Traffic Light Voting Guide will turbo charge the effectiveness of your vote in Red Light electorates.

Strategic Preferencing in the Box Hill District (How to turbo-charge your vote!)

Box Hill is a Red Light electorate held by the Labor Party. We strongly advise to you preference the Labor candidate last. You have three other Green Light candidates to vote for. Fortunately for Box Hill residents, one those three is an Outstanding Green Light candidate and a very worthy independent.

Strategic Preferencing in the Southern Metropolitan Region

Whether you vote below, or above the line, number One Nation or their candidates absolute dead last The divisiveness promoted by this party will tear us apart. Your vote can help to exclude them from minority government and preserve our capacity to restore social cohesion. They have the unhinged capacity to take a wrecking ball to the good influence of the Legislative Council.

To do this effectively you will need to fill in all the boxes either above the line or below the line.

Outstanding Green Light Candidates

Dr.Heena Sinha Cheung Community Independent

A Strong Voice. A Fairer Box Hill.

A survivor, a founder of frontline community disability services, a delegate to the United Nations — and the Independent candidate Box Hill deserves.

“There is a quiet anger in Box Hill right now, and I share it. Every day, I talk to women and families who are honestly fed up — tired of being treated like an afterthought by career politicians, and tired of seeing our community sold off in secret developer deals. I’ve spent my life surviving the cracks in a broken system, so I know exactly what it feels like to be invisible. I’m not running to play the game; I’m running to break the silence.”

Local Issues in Box Hill

Vote Climate One Assessment

1. If you are elected to the next Victorian House of Assembly will your policy focus support real action on issues relating to the ecological and climate emergency?

Yes. If elected to the next Victorian Parliament, I will support real and evidence-based action on the ecological and climate emergency. Climate action is not separate from the issues facing our communities — it is connected to our health, cost of living, transport, energy security, biodiversity and the kind of future we leave our children.

As an Independent, I will listen to the evidence, climate and environmental organisations, researchers and my community, and advocate for practical action that both reduces emissions and strengthens the resilience of our communities.

2. Are you prepared to use the application of the 3Rs, the Climate Rescue Accord and the Green Transition to inform, when relevant, your position and advocacy on legislation and policy?

Yes. I am prepared to use the 3Rs, the Climate Rescue Accord and the Green Transition to inform, where relevant, my consideration and advocacy on climate-related legislation and policy.

As an Independent, I will assess legislation on its merits, informed by the best available evidence, expert advice and the voices of affected communities. I believe we need the courage to consider the scale and urgency of the ecological and climate challenge while ensuring that the transition is practical, fair and leaves no community behind.

Dr Heena Sinha Cheung

Green Light Candidates

Aaron Qin Greens Candidate

I’m Aaron Qin, a registered nurse and community healthcare founder, and I’m running for Box Hill because people here deserve practical leadership and better decisions.

我是Aaron Qin，一名注册护士，也是社区医疗机构的创办人。我竞选Box Hill议员，是因为这里的人们值得拥有务实的领导力和更明智的决策。

For more than eight years, I’ve worked on the frontline of our healthcare system, supporting over 800 patients in hospitals, aged care, and disability services. I’ve seen how decisions made in government affect people’s lives — especially when the system doesn’t work the way it should.

八年来，我一直奋战在医疗体系的第一线，在医院、养老院和残障服务中，照护过800多位患者。我亲眼见证了政府的决策如何影响人们的生活——尤其在系统运转失灵的时候，那些后果格外沉重。

I started a local care service to support older people and people living with disability, and I now lead a multicultural not-for-profit working with families, small businesses, and community groups across Melbourne’s east.

我创办了本地社区照护服务机构，致力于支持老年人和残障人士；同时，我也领导一家多元文化公益组织，与墨尔本东区的家庭、小型企业及各类社区团体紧密合作，共同推动社区发展与融合。

I’m also a first-generation migrant, and I understand what it takes to build a stable life in Australia — finding work, supporting family, and being part of a community you can rely on.

作为第一代移民，我深知在澳洲扎根所需付出的努力——从找到一份工作，到支撑家庭，再到融入一个可以彼此依靠的社区，这一切都来之不易。

Box Hill is growing fast, but many people are feeling the pressure. Box Hill正在飞速发展，但许多人感受到的是日益沉重的压力。 New buildings are going up, but infrastructure isn’t keeping up.

高楼拔地而起，基础设施却跟不上节奏。

The cost of living is rising, and everyday life is getting harder.

生活成本不断攀升，日常日子越来越难。

I’m running with the Greens to focus on what matters locally: 我代表绿党参选，聚焦真正关乎本地居民切身利益的核心问题：

• Safe streets and support for local safety initiatives 打造更安全的街道环境，并大力支持本地社区安全行动
• Better green spaces and protected local environment and waterways打造更优质的绿色空间，守护本地生态环境与水域
• More housing that is well planned and genuinely affordable 规划更合理、真正可负担的住房
• Healthcare and aged care that people can rely on 值得信赖的医疗与养老服务体系
• Support for small businesses and local jobs 更有力地支持小型企业与本地就业
• A community where people from all backgrounds feel included 一个让不同文化背景的人都能安心融入、被尊重的社区

I’m not a career politician. I’m someone who has worked in the system, understands the pressure people are under, and is ready to do something about it.

我不是职业政客，而是一个在体系里扎扎实实干过、懂得民众压力所在、并愿意为之奋起行动的人。

Climate Change Policy

All of our state policy principles and aims should be read alongside our relevant federal policy principles and aims, as well as our state campaigns and federal campaigns.

Principles

1. Human-induced climate change poses one of the greatest threats to our world in human history and requires urgent local, national and global action.
2. We are already experiencing dangerous impacts of climate change; urgent, deep, and broad action is required to avoid catastrophic impacts.
3. The amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere necessitates urgent emission reduction and drawdown of greenhouse gases as well as prompt adaptation to climate change.
4. Early action to reduce greenhouse emissions is cheaper and fairer than delayed action.
5. Governments must ensure that organisations responsible for pollution pay for the costs of mitigating climate change and adapting to its impacts.
6. Climate change policy should be based on the best available science.
7. Climate change policy should inform and frame all other policies.
8. Victoria must take responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the goods and resources it consumes and exports.
9. Victoria is one of the world’s largest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases with a large percentage due to the burning of brown coal.
10. The lack of effective global (or Australian) climate action must not prevent Victoria from taking immediate and comprehensive measures.
11. Offset schemes must be carefully controlled to avoid them undermining emissions reduction efforts or being used for greenwashing or fraud.
12. Climate action should prioritise proven solutions such as large-scale reforestation over unproven or harmful technologies that prolong fossil fuel use.
13. Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures should not discriminate or treat anyone unfairly on any basis including gender, age, race, ethnicity, vulnerability, religion, disability, sexual orientation or membership of a minority group.

Aims

Mitigation

1. To achieve net zero or negative total greenhouse gas emissions across all areas of human activity – including via the removal of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, in a way that is environmentally responsible and socially fair.
2. Development and implementation of a detailed plan to end Victoria’s reliance on fossil fuels by shifting to, and beyond, a zero greenhouse gas emission economy.
3. Position Victoria – through appropriate investment in technological innovation – to benefit from the new jobs, skills, technologies and markets available in a zero greenhouse gas emission economy.
4. Provide transitional support for all regions, businesses and communities adversely affected by measures that reduce climate change.
5. Support place-based adaptation and mitigation initiatives which engage the community in identifying local challenges and co-designing solutions.
6. Regulation of the phasing out of existing coal-fired power stations and the banning of new fossil-fuel based power stations.
7. A ban on the exploration and development of new fossil fuel resources including but not limited to coal seam gas and other forms of unconventional gas.
8. Develop complementary mitigation measures in collaboration with other governments where possible.
9. Support for elevating sustainability requirements for buildings and construction.
10. Where practical, support nature-based responses to climate change, such as increasing canopy cover, and planting mangroves to reduce storm damage to coastal areas.
11. Assistance to the agriculture and forestry sectors to reduce emissions from ruminant livestock production and land clearing and other sources.
12. Maximise effective and sustainable carbon farming, bio-sequestration and other drawdown methods.
13. Implement low-cost, high-impact emissions reductions in Victoria’s stationary energy sector, and reduce emissions across other sectors including transport, industrial processes, agriculture and forestry.

Adaptation

14. Government support for adaptive actions to protect the environment and key public assets, and to manage major public risks.
15. The implementation, through public and private action, of Victoria’s climate change adaptation action plan, and ongoing review with community and expert involvement.
16. Assisting the agriculture sector to adjust to reduced water availability and to make itself more energy self-sufficient.
17. Ensuring that planning regulations allow for expected impacts of climate change such as rising sea levels, storm surges and other extreme weather events.
18. Implement adaptation measures that take account of those groups disproportionately impacted by climate change and resulting disasters and emergencies.

Further reading 

• Climate change and energy (federal Greens policy)
• No more coal and gas (state campaign)

Greens State policies