Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for Footscray. The Ivanhoe guide for voters will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.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 The NORTH EASTERN METROPOLITAN REGION guide for voters in Ivanhoe will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.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 Ivanhoe District (How to turbo-charge your vote!)

Ivanhoe 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 stone motherless 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

Michelle Kennedy Community Independent

A representative who answers only to you

I’m Michelle Kennedy, and I’m running for Ivanhoe because this community deserves a representative who listens first, acts decisively, and answers only to you.

I’ve spent my career building things — as a teacher and school leader, as a union leader, and as a founding member of Voices of Jagajaga. Every time, the work comes down to the same thing: listening to what people need, then doing the hard work to make it happen together.

Policy Priorities

People want politics done differently — they want to be represented by someone who answers to their community, not to a caucus or party leadership. The positions here come from conversation with residents across Ivanhoe and reflect my own convictions, offered in the spirit of leadership, not vote-chasing. Consider them a starting point.

All policy development (and work towards legislation if elected) will be developed through the following guiding principles:
1. Is it actively creating a fairer society?
2. Is it minimising the effects of Climate Change, and is it protecting the environment?
3. Am I acting with integrity?
4. Am I being truly consultative and collaborative?
5. Am I being transparent and accountable?
6. Am I using the best available research and reliable data?

Feel free to get in touch if you have an issue that is important to you and we can have a chat about it.

Together we can, and together we will, make a difference.

Traffic Light Voting Assessment

1. If I am elected to the next Victorian Parliament, I will support real, immediate and ongoing action on issues relating to the ecological and climate emergency.

2. I am prepared to use the application of the 3Rs, Climate Rescue Accord, and the Green Transition to inform, when relevant, my position and advocacy on legislation and policy. Moreover, I will always use the best available research and data from scientific sources when informing my position and advocacy for any legislation and policy.