Your vote matters – makes sure it’s based on the facts!
Voters deserve accurate information about the candidates climate policies.
Summaries of candidates policies and scorecard rationale
The parties and candidates have been rated across seven categories, and summarised in a scorecard, to inform your vote.
Each policy has been scored as GOOD, FAIR or POOR based on the candidates’ published policies.
We have made every effort to be objective and fair in our scoring. Summaries of each candidate’s policies were prepared, and where we did not have prior confirmation, we endeavoured to contact candidates so they could review and correct them before we finalised our scoring. Some Parties/Candidates did not respond. Policies were scored using simple and clear criteria, and you can find the full scoring rationale here. Short on time? Compare candidates’ responses to key questions in our comparative forum quotes pdf here.
Senate Vote Climate Voting Guide
Preferential Voting
Preferential voting means your vote is not wasted if your first preference doesn’t win. If your first preference doesn’t win, your vote is transferred to you second preference and so on.
For the strongest climate vote, put all the strong climate candidates before all the others.
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Climate action not only lowers the cost of living but protects our quality of life
Supporting solar PV saves solar household around $1200 per annum
- Fully electric household with an EV can save over $4000 each year, even including paying off the upfront costs at 5%!
- Climate care is health care – acting on climate will reduce deaths and illness from increasing heat stress.
- Clean energy is the least cost option according to AEMO, and storage makes power from the sun and wind available 24/7
Power from nuclear reactors is very expensive – up to $600bn, all paid for by the taxpayer – and will take too long, with experts saying first power would not occur till the mid 2040s.
- Why risk nuclear, which would add $665yr to the average household’s energy bills – and more than double your costs if you have solar.
Vote for strong climate action, for solar, going electric, protecting our forests and green spaces.
Vote for a safe climate future and the health of our communities and those we love.
Kooyong is a critical seat
- Kooyong is held by Independent Dr Monique Ryan on a tight margin of 2.2%
- In the 2024 redistribution Kooyong gained Liberal leading parts of Higgins, dropping an expected margin from 2.9% to 2.2% according to the ABC.
- Ben Raue notes a large churn of 24.2% new electors and calculates an eventual margin of 3.5%.
- However Antony Green suggests Ryan’s margin is reduced from 2.9% to 1.8%.
Climate action is good for the economy
Climate action saves
- Climate action not only lowers the cost of living but protects our quality of life.
- Find out more on our climate and cost of living page
Health is the most important thing we have got
- Acting on climate will improve the health of our communities and those we love
- Find out more on our health and climate page
Why risk nuclear?
- Nuclear is far too slow, far too expensive and will drastically increase climate pollution
- Got a couple of minutes? You can scan through our nuclear information page or dive into the links
Say ‘Yes’ to clean energy
- The shift to abundant, safe sun and wind power is unstoppable
- Clean energy benefits all Australians. Find out more here.
Further Information
This scorecard was developed by members of the Kooyong Climate Change Alliance scorecard working group including Lighter Footprints.
Kooyong Climate Change Alliance (KCCA)
Along with partner local climate groups, Lighter Footprints is a member of KCCA.
LF is assisting KCCA in running climate conversations, pre-poll and polling day events as part of the non-partisan Vote Climate campaign in Kooyong.
Lighter Footprints
- Clean energy – let’s get on with it! Connect with Kooyong Votes Climate campaign here.
- You can watch the Kooyong Candidates Forum on our YouTube channel.
- Only got 5 minutes? Skim through the Kooyong Candidates Forum blog for key statements and comparative quotes.
- Not sure about nuclear? Check out veteran nuclear-free campaigner Dave Sweeney talking about what’s behind the seven reactor plan and what it might mean in this short video.
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