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 based on published policies and positions. Additional information was sought from parties/candidates where necessary. Policies were scored using simple and clear criteria, and you can find the full scoring rationale 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.
Menzies is very marginal
- Menzies is held by Keith Wolahan for the Liberal party on a tight margin
- In the 2024 redistribution Menzies shifted further south and west gaining 20,000 Labor or independent leaning voters from Kooyong and Chisholm according to the ABC.
- Ben Raue states that the shift west has “flipped the seat from a 0.7% Liberal margin to a 0.4% Labor margin.”
- Antony Green suggests that Menzies has become a notional Labor seat.
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 Menzies for Climate scorecard working group including Lighter Footprints with input from KCCA.
Menzies for Climate
Along with partner local climate groups, Lighter Footprints is a member of Menzies for Climate
LF is assisting Menzies for Climate in running climate conversations, pre-poll and polling day events as part of the non-partisan Vote Climate campaign in Menzies.
Lighter Footprints
- Clean energy – let’s get on with it! Connect with Menzies Votes Climate campaign here.
- Want to support solar and going electric? Climate action lowers the cost of living – find out more here.
- 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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