Nepean
Below is a mock up of a Traffic Light Voting Guide for Footscray. The actual Nepean guide for voters will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.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 The EASTERN REGION guide for voters in Nepean will not be published until after the ballot draw on Tuesday November 10th.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 if there are any Orange Light ones number them next. 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 will turbo charge the effectiveness of your vote in Red Light electorates.
Strategic Preferencing in Nepean
Nepean is a Red Light electorate. In this seat we strongly advise you preference the Libs last. You are also lucky enough to have Kim Robbins a very worthy community independent and an Outstanding Green Light candidate standing in Nepean. You have other Green Light candidates to vote for before the Red Light candidates.
Strategic Preferencing in the Eastern Victorian Region
Fortunately you also have an Outstanding Green Light candidate to vote for in Eastern Victoria 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.
To maximise the effectiveness of your Upper House vote you advise you to fill in all the boxes either above the line or below the line.
Outstanding Green Light Candidates
Kim Robbins
Community Independent for Nepean
Policy Priorities
Peninsula Link
Peninsula Link opened in 2013. Just 13 years later, 14 kilometres is being dug up and rebuilt, yet the reports explaining why remain hidden. The government must show whether the road was built and maintained to standard, whether the contract was enforced and who is accountable. I’ll pursue the answers through Parliament, Freedom of Information and independent scrutiny, then publish every answer, and every refusal, in plain English.
Housing & Homelessness
It breaks my heart that the Peninsula is one of the state’s winners of the most rough sleepers “award”. We know that short-stay accommodation exacerbates the supply issue, but what of the revenue from the Air BnB levy, a huge proportion of which is generated here? And when you compare State funding for housing and support services, we are definitely not getting our fair share. The $2.1m promised to fund 2 outreach workers on the Peninsula is a great start but not enough.
Local skills, local jobs
Nepean needs more qualified tradies, care workers and early childhood educators, and many of the courses leading to these jobs are already taught at Chisholm’s Rosebud campus. But costs, transport, workplace conditions and confusing support schemes can stop people starting or finishing. I’m surveying local learners and employers, then bringing them together for a local skills roundtable to shape practical solutions.
A fair classification for the Peninsula
The Peninsula is treated as metropolitan Melbourne despite our spread-out townships, limited public transport, older population and visitor pressures. That leaves us excluded from support available to regional communities. I’ll fight for fair peri-regional treatment and access to funding that reflects our real needs, while protecting the Green Wedge and the metropolitan programs that benefit us. Each year, I’ll publish what the government promised, funded and delivered.
Rosebud Hospital
Rosebud Hospital’s emergency department operates around the clock, but essential diagnostic services don’t. Patients can wait for imaging and urgent blood-test results, while our community fundraises for a replacement CT scanner. I’ll push for these immediate service gaps to be fixed, demand the release of Rosebud’s hidden plans and funding history, and pursue a fully funded redevelopment with a clear scope, budget and timetable.
Small business and the local economy
Our cafes, shops, trades, tourism operators and family businesses keep the Peninsula working, but each faces different costs and barriers. I’ll bring local chambers and business owners together to identify the state taxes, charges, regulations and delays hurting them most, then push for practical changes. I’ll also fight for eligible Peninsula employers to receive the same lower payroll-tax rate available to eligible regional employers.
Community safety
Everyone deserves to feel safe at home, on our streets and in our shopping centres. That requires visible, responsive local policing and early help that prevents further offending. I’ll fight to keep the Peninsula’s High Visibility Community Engagement Team local and properly resourced, and push to bring Victoria Police’s youth outreach program here. This isn’t about excusing crime. It’s about preventing the next offence and reducing the number of victims.
Western Port Bay
A healthy Western Port supports local jobs, businesses, fishing, boating and tourism, as well as wetlands and wildlife. I’ll push the Victorian Government to adopt and fund the community-developed Western Port Bay Framework, creating one plan for the bay and its catchment, shared responsibility and dedicated annual funding. Regular public reporting will show whether water quality, sediment, shorebirds and restoration work are genuinely improving.
Traffic Light Voting Guide Assessment
1. “If I am elected to the next Victorian Parliament as the Member for Nepean, I will support real and meaningful action on issues relating to the ecological and climate emergency.”
2. ” I support the application of the 3Rs (Reduce, Remove, Reflect) and the Climate Rescue Accord to inform, when relevant to the bill at hand, my position and advocacy on legislation and policy.”
I’ve listed you on our Pledges page here. https://www.kimrobbins.com.au/pledges/
Antoinette Pitt
Community Independent for the Eastern Region
I grew up in Lilydale, my husband in Mooroolbark, and our family now enjoys living in Montrose. This region has shaped who I am. It’s where we’ve built our lives, and where I’m committed to giving back.
My nursing career has taken me to Traralgon, Bairnsdale, and Phillip Island, giving me an understanding of the diverse communities and health challenges across our region. As a dedicated nurse and advocate, I have seen firsthand the challenges faced by frontline workers, patients, and everyday Victorians.
As a Job Representative with the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation (ANMF), I have fought for fair wages, better working conditions, and stronger protections for healthcare workers. I bring those same values—of fairness, dignity, and community—into my campaign, because I believe Eastern Victoria deserves leadership grounded in lived experience and real care for our future.
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?
When elected to the next Victorian Parliament, I will support real action on issues relating to the ecological and climate emergency.
Tangible actions such as growing circular capabilities, increasing recycling, pushing for Victoria to lead the way with Resource Rescue hubs which provide access to single stream recycling, tool libraries, repair cafes, reuse swaps, education and generally support a communities sustainability.
I will advocate for maximum carparking without solar roofing and more electric chargers in our communities.
I will support the growth of energy diversification and community access. Regional and rural towns should not have to rely on diesel generators because private power companies refuse to service them reliably.
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?
After decades of dragging our feet we are getting close to passing the 2 degree increase to our global average temperature. We are already experiencing the deterioration of our environment and ecosystems.
It is no longer just enough to plant trees and issue empty credits. To ensure we can have a happy, healthy, livable future, we must find ways to support farmers with new techniques and technology to protect our food security. We need techniques to slow down ecosystem collapse and prevent further harm to our environment. And we need to ceased digging up Fossil Fuels.
I support the application of the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord to inform my position and advocacy on legislation and policy when relevant.
