With over 40 candidates for Coffs Harbour City Council and nine mayoral candidates, it's a big choice for this Saturday's local government elections. To help you get informed on where the candidates stand on climate-related issues, we have summarised their responses to our questionnaire, along with a consideration of their past record and their statements at our forum, to put together this table - see document below. Due to space, this summary focuses on the lead candidate of each group (most of whom are also mayoral candidates), plus the independents. Some individual candidates in groups have provided different responses and this detail will be provided in a follow up blog post, should you prefer to vote below the line.
Many thanks to all candidates who responded to our questionnaire!
If you're pressed for time and just want the super-quick summary, here it is:
We rated Sally Townley - Group C as the highest overall, followed by Jan Strom - Group I, then David Quinn - Group E & Mark Sultana - Group B.
As a non-aligned community group, Coffs Coast Climate Action Group will not tell you who to vote for, but we encourage you to get informed and think of the climate when you vote.
We look forward to working on positive local climate solutions with whoever is elected to Council.
Many thanks to all candidates who responded to our questionnaire!
If you're pressed for time and just want the super-quick summary, here it is:
We rated Sally Townley - Group C as the highest overall, followed by Jan Strom - Group I, then David Quinn - Group E & Mark Sultana - Group B.
As a non-aligned community group, Coffs Coast Climate Action Group will not tell you who to vote for, but we encourage you to get informed and think of the climate when you vote.
We look forward to working on positive local climate solutions with whoever is elected to Council.