hey everyone giordano and ellen here from the juice media hi so many people
concerned about climate have been writing to us and commenting on our
recent honest government ads with questions like who should i vote for at
this election how do i vote for someone who is not [ __ ] on climate how do i know
where my preferences will go and more there's no way we can reply to all those
questions individually so we thought we'd make a quick video to address some
of them here before we go on i just want to say voting is your choice well voting
is compulsory in australia but how you vote is your choice right so if you
already know that you want to vote labour great if you're set on voting for
the greens or an independent great and if you're set on voting for the libs
what are you doing here you must be lost point is we're not here to convince you
to change your vote we're here to answer some questions from people who might be
confused about how our voting system works and who want to know how they can
make their vote count on climate at this crucial election voting can sometimes
seem complicated especially if it's your first time but don't worry we're going
to keep it simple and make sure that you're all over it at this election so
let's get into it
we'll start with the basics when you go to the voting booth you'll get two
ballots the green ballot is for the house of representatives aka the lower
house this is where government is formed and the big white paper is for the
senate aka the upper house also known as the house of review because all the
bills introduced by the house of reps have to be approved by the senate before
they become law so your senate vote is just as important and yes it's a big
piece of paper but don't let that freak you out it's actually pretty simple
let's look at the green ballot first the idea with preferential voting is that
you put a 1 next to the candidate you'd most like to represent you in the house
of reps then you must number the rest of the boxes in order of preference so you
put the person you like most first and the one you like least last it's a great
system because if your first choice doesn't get enough first preference
votes to win the seat your second choice will be counted in full and if your
second choice doesn't get enough votes to win your third choice is counted and
so on until someone gets a clear majority and wins that seat but remember
for your vote to count you have to number all the boxes on this ballot the
aec has made a neat video explaining this in more detail with some cool
animations which you can check out we'll put the link in the video description
below and if english isn't your first language the aec has also produced some
multilingual guides which again we'll link to in the video description below
okay let's okay
okay
okay let's look at the senate ballot paper now
doorbell okay
let's look at the senate ballot paper now here you follow exactly the same
process we saw with the green ballot paper the only difference is that here
the boxes are lined up horizontally like this instead of vertically like in the
green ballot paper and unlike in the green ballot paper you don't have to
number all the boxes thank god because there's a lot of them you just have to
number at least six of them above this black line alternatively you can vote
below the line but to keep it simple we're not going to get into that here
the aec has made another video that explains the difference between voting
above or below the line in the senate so if you want to know more check that out
but if you want to keep your senate voting experience simple just vote above
the line and be sure to number at least six boxes and that's basically all there
is to it okay at this point we want to address a question that often springs up
can a party choose where your preferences go the short answer to this
is no and the long answer is not at all parties don't choose your preferences
you do only you decide where your preference goes and you do that by
following the process we just described of choosing the order in which your
preferences are counted but what about these how to vote cards that parties are
telling me to follow how to vote cards are simply the party's suggestions on
how they'd like you to vote but you don't have to follow these suggestions
on election day volunteers will hand you their parties how to vote cards to try
and influence your vote at the last minute that's because it's a well-known
fact that many voters only choose who to vote for while standing in line to vote
but if you've done your homework which you should do for this election then
you'll know who you're voting for already so just say no thanks and walk
right in and walk right in
that being said how to vote cards can be useful if you don't have time to
research all the candidates on your ballot and you trust the party who
suggestions you're following how to vote cards can also help you work out where a
candidate's own political tendencies lie so for example dave sharma's had a vote
card the liberal candidate for wentworth tells you to vote one for him obviously
and then to put a two next to the united australia party candidate you know the
party owned by a mining billionaire which should tell you that dave's a [ __ ]
candidate on climate but whether or not you follow how to vote cards the key
thing to remember is they're just suggestions the final choice on how your
preferences flow in our electoral system is yours okay okay giordano now i
understand how to vote but who should i vote for if i want to help elect a
candidate that's not [ __ ] on climate well i don't like to tell people who to
vote for but when you're dealing with climate you don't have to take my
opinion or anyone else's you can just follow the science climate analytics has
just put together this analysis that shows you the global warming
consequences of the climate targets of the liberal national party the labour
party the teal independence and the greens and puts them side by side as you
can see the current government's climate target puts us on track for total
climate meltdown in a three degree warmer world double the safe limit of
1.5 degree warming set at the paris summit so that's what the science would
call [ __ ] which is why we call it the [ __ ] party labour's climate target puts
us on track for two degrees of warming that's better than three degrees but
still catastrophic because we're already seeing unprecedented fires and floods
and we're only at 1.3 degrees of warming today so the science would call that a
shit-like target and then you have the teal independence and the greens whose
targets would put us on track for staying under the safe limit of 1.5
degrees warming so that's what the science would call a not [ __ ] candidate
okay okay ellen we know the greens but who are the not [ __ ] independents that's
a good question because not all independents are not [ __ ] some are very
[ __ ] indeed if you can't be bothered to research all the independents in your
electorate you can be confident that independents supported by the voices of
and climate 200 movements are not [ __ ] on climate so if in doubt head over to
this page of the climate 200 website and find out if they're supporting an
independent in your electorate we'll put the link in the video description below
all the electorates where these not [ __ ] independents are running are currently
held by liberal national mps so if you live in one of them and can vote
congratulations you can help kick out one of this government's [ __ ] mps and
replace them with one that will take real action on climate okay so now that
you know the basics of how to vote and now that you know who the not [ __ ]
climate candidates are in your electorate let's look at how you can
help to get them elected step one give your first preference to the not [ __ ]
candidate of your choice if there's more than one not [ __ ] option in your
electorate number the next in your order of preference step two put the [ __ ]
light party after your not [ __ ] choices this way if you're not [ __ ] climate
choice doesn't get elected your vote will flow to labour labour winning seats
is a good thing especially in a marginal seat as that will be essential to
kicking the [ __ ] party out of government step 3 put the coalition parties after
your not [ __ ] and shitlight choices for those who don't know the coalition is
comprised of the liberal party and the nationals the leader of the nationals
also becomes the deputy prime minister when the coalition is in power which is
why a vote for the liberal party is a vote for this knob as your deputy pm so
make sure to put both [ __ ] parties last after all that's where they always put
you step four put the most [ __ ] parties on climate very last like palmer's
united australia party and pauline hanson's one nation which is literally
full of climate deniers like this total tool bag and that's how you can make
your vote truly count for climate at this election because every not [ __ ]
candidate who wins a seat will become a not [ __ ] np who will sit on the
crossbench and vote on the future direction of our climate policy does all
this apply to both the house of reps and the senate ballot papers yes don't
forget the senate it's just as important because if we get a not [ __ ] house of
reps and a [ __ ] senate we still end up with a [ __ ] government so make sure to
vote one for not [ __ ] candidates on your senate ballot too the greens are an
obvious choice here as they already have nine not [ __ ] senate seats so this is
where they can have the most impact by helping to vote through not [ __ ] climate
legislation that's introduced by the house of reps am i helping the coalition
if i vote one for anyone other than labour no as long as you put labour
above the liberal national parties you can safely give your first preference to
a not [ __ ] candidate because as we saw if your first choice doesn't win your
vote will flow to labor anyway so not only are you not risking or wasting your
vote you're actually getting more value out of your single vote and lastly will
the sky fall if we end up with a a hung parliament okay so a hung
parliament is what happens when an election ends up with no single party
winning enough seats in the house of reps to form government on their own
this means the major parties then have to negotiate with the cross bench mps to
form government and that's why it's so important that those cross bench mps are
the not [ __ ] ones you elected so that they'll have a seat at the table of
those negotiations you'll hear a lot of negative things being said about hung
parliaments but that's all coming from the major parties who of course would
much rather form government on their own than have to negotiate with the cross
bench so ignore them hung parliaments are the norm in many european countries
and the sky hasn't fallen there we actually made a whole honest government
ad that explains what a hung parliament is so if you'd like to know how it can
help our next government be less [ __ ] on climate check it out all right well
that's all we hope this has been helpful in answering some common questions we've
been getting but of course ultimately it's up to you to decide how to vote as
we said at the start your vote is your choice and we respect our audience
enough to make that choice for themselves the one thing we'd like to
remind people of is that we have a pretty great preferential voting system
where you can make your climate vote truly can if you know how to use it
people in the us and uk wish they had our preferential system of verdi so the
least we can do here in australia is know how it works that's why we also
made an honest government ad about preferential voting which we hope most
of you have seen by now if not you'll find the link in the video description
below before we sign off i want to thank all our patrons for supporting our work
our latest video to which this podcast acts as a companion marks the end of
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you this also marks the two year anniversary of the juice media podcast
which i started as a way to discuss each of our honest government ads in more
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privilege to make it for you i also want to give a huge thanks to ellen who not
only stars in our honest government ads but has also been editing the podcast
for this past year and it's also to have her here today joining me for the first
time on the podcast it's good to be here george well that's all for now season
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ellen and on behalf of all of us here at the juice media thank you good luck and
happy not-shit voting
the final choice on how your preferences flow in our electoral system is yours
okay okay giordano so were you wearing your glasses before because you're not
wearing them now yes
that was pretty good pretty [ __ ] awesome