Lismore City Councillor Adam Guise was officially announced as the Greens candidate for Lismore at the NSW State Election to be held in March 2023.

Green MP's Cate Faehrmann MLC and Sue Higginson MLC introduced Mr Guise and declared the seat winnable following an electoral boundary change in August this year.

"It's going to be a very important state election. The greens are very hopeful that we are going to do better than we have ever done at any state election," said Cate Faehrmann.

"We have looked at our seats that we believe are winnable at this election. Obviously, that includes our current seats that we have MP's in, which of course, is the state of Ballina here in the Northern Rivers, as well as the seats of Newtown and Balmain in Sydney. But we're also looking now at the seat of Lismore, which we also believe is winnable."

"We came very close in the last two elections in 2019 and 2015 (Sue Higginson 2019 and Adam Guise 2015) but the boundaries have also changed recently on this seat, improving our chances."

Local Greens MP Sue Higginson MLC said, "We're here for the long term. Lismore is winnable. We are now in not just a climate emergency, we are seeing the impacts of the housing crisis. No greater place can we see that than right here in our seat of Lismore and across the Northern Rivers."

After being introduced, Adam Guise started by saying, "It's a real pleasure and honour to stand as the candidate for the seat of Lismore for the 2023 state election again."

"I've been a longtime local of Lismore for more than 20 years. I've stood for the state seat before in 2015, which nearly saw us win and I've been a councillor on Lismore Council for more than five years where I've stood up for grassroots democracy, for ecological sustainability and for a community that really wants a say in their future."

"At the moment, our community is unfortunately hurting. It's hurting off the back of devastating floods of a climate change fuel disaster, which we are on the front lines of. And for that, we need a community-led recovery. It needs to be a socially just recovery that comes from the people and the communities that this disaster has impacted."

"Unfortunately, all we've heard is radio silence from the state government. We've heard promises of action, but people are in limbo seven months on waiting for some certainty or solutions of what this future holds. And so myself and the greens and the members of this community really want leadership and action in terms of where people can live, how we can heal community, heal country and really set a path of ecologically sustainable future and prosperity for our region. And that's what the Greens offer."

If you were wondering what the Greens policy will be in the seat of Lismore, this was clarified by Adam Guise.

"The Greens offer genuine solutions to getting us out of this climate chaos. We want to end coal and gas which has been inflicted on us on both sides of government."

"We need an adaptation plan that needs to see us rapidly decarbonize our economy and see that our landscape is healed, that we heal our rivers and clean up our rivers and our catchment and restore the devastation that has been brought across our region."

"And fundamentally, we need to provide safe houses and safe places to go to in terms of the climate chaos that is being inflicted on us. And that means allowing people to relocate to higher ground to safer communities to well designed happy healthy communities, that we can be sure that they have safety into an uncertain future."

Adam Guise is the first to declare his intentions to run for the state seat of Lismore, giving himself a five-month run into the March 2023 State Election. As was the case in 2015 and 2019, the seat of Lismore looks set to be a closely run race between the Greens, Labor's sitting member Janelle Saffin and the yet to be named National Party candidate.