NO COMPROMISE ON GLOBAL WARMING
election campaigns
One of the main focuses of Save the Planet is running election campaigns. The purpose of these campaigns is threefold: firstly, to educate the public about the threat of and solutions to climate change; secondly, to put pressure on the major parties including the Greens to adopt the policies that will actually prevent ecological and civilisational collapse; and thirdly, to win seats and force the implementation of policies that will restore a safe climate.
We will do this by raising the policy bar, taking our message to the public and preferencing against climate sceptics, deniers, and sitting candidates (for the chamber determining the government) who actively seek to undermine the climate emergency transition.
Running election campaigns requires a huge investment in time and money so support in these areas will be of great help, particularly handing out how to vote cards on election day, working as a candidate or campaign manager, or donating to help cover the large costs.
We also need to register as a political party in each state and federally and are seeking members who are eligible to vote to join.
Our current election campaigns are:
If you want to help Save the Planet and get involved please become a member or contact us.
We will do this by raising the policy bar, taking our message to the public and preferencing against climate sceptics, deniers, and sitting candidates (for the chamber determining the government) who actively seek to undermine the climate emergency transition.
Running election campaigns requires a huge investment in time and money so support in these areas will be of great help, particularly handing out how to vote cards on election day, working as a candidate or campaign manager, or donating to help cover the large costs.
We also need to register as a political party in each state and federally and are seeking members who are eligible to vote to join.
Our current election campaigns are:
- the Victorian 2020 Local Government election
- the Federal 2021 election
If you want to help Save the Planet and get involved please become a member or contact us.
election resources
Preferencing policy
One of the key distinguishing features of Save the Planet is our way of handling the preferencing of candidates from other parties and independent candidates. We don't do preference deals. For State and Federal elections we preference strictly in accordance with our transparent and publicly available preferencing policy (see pdf below).
Our preferencing policy seeks to reward parties and individual candidates for publicly supporting climate emergency policies or a strong positions on climate change and penalise those who have weak policies, are sceptical or in denial about human forced climate change.
We rank parties and candidates according to their public position on climate change into 8 categories:
The categories represent relative positions on the ballot paper in relation to our preferences. Parties and independents are then ranked relatively within each category. And particularly good or bad candidates within each party can be given a promotion or demotion above or below their parties ranking including being moved up or down entire ranks - provided the candidate is not a member of a denialist party.
To provide additional political leverage sitting members who are standing for election to a house of parliament which will form government or to a local government and whose party is not ranked in the climate emergency category are automatically ranked at the bottom of their category. Exemplary sitting candidates who publicly state positions stronger than their party's position may be given a "Rising star" exemption from the sitting member penalty ranking within their category.
By preferencing in this way we can generate strong political leverage on all political parties and candidates to get them to rapidly upgrade their policies and actions up to the climate emergency category.
Our preferencing policy seeks to reward parties and individual candidates for publicly supporting climate emergency policies or a strong positions on climate change and penalise those who have weak policies, are sceptical or in denial about human forced climate change.
We rank parties and candidates according to their public position on climate change into 8 categories:
- Climate Emergency
- Core solutions
- Slow Net Zero
- Weak
- Going backwards
- No climate information
- Undermining
- Denialist
The categories represent relative positions on the ballot paper in relation to our preferences. Parties and independents are then ranked relatively within each category. And particularly good or bad candidates within each party can be given a promotion or demotion above or below their parties ranking including being moved up or down entire ranks - provided the candidate is not a member of a denialist party.
To provide additional political leverage sitting members who are standing for election to a house of parliament which will form government or to a local government and whose party is not ranked in the climate emergency category are automatically ranked at the bottom of their category. Exemplary sitting candidates who publicly state positions stronger than their party's position may be given a "Rising star" exemption from the sitting member penalty ranking within their category.
By preferencing in this way we can generate strong political leverage on all political parties and candidates to get them to rapidly upgrade their policies and actions up to the climate emergency category.
