Vicki Brooke
Vicki Brooke is the Greens Party candidate for Peats in the upcoming state election.
Vicki has a background in small business and the arts.
She has worked in managerial positions in a variety of enterprises including publishing and a children's charity.
She started and ran a company for 16 years servicing public arts and tourism clients throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Vicki is a voluntary business mentor for the Central Coast Business Mentor Service, helping small businesses who are experiencing difficulties.
Vicki has been involved in community affairs for over 30 years, lately as an activist and passionate campaigner against globalisation.
She is particularly concerned about genetically engineered food and crops and has helped run the Sydney campaign for the past three years.
In 2002, she lobbied politicians against the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
Australia's secret negotiations with this WTO body involve the potential opening up to foreign companies of services such as the balance of Telstra, Australia Post, water services, health, education and much more.
Vicki is a member of a number of groups concerned with the environment and the quality of the society in which we live.
With increasing population pressure on the Central Coast threatening our environment and lifestyle, posing an additional burden on an already overloaded infrastructure, Vicki believes Greens policies are the only way to put grassroots democracy into effect at the ballot box on March 22.
She is opposed to over-development and further encroachment on public land and the foreshore by private interests.
She wants more money spent on public health services including home nursing and aged care beds, better quality education opportunities and smaller classes, an efficient public transport system and improved roads, creation of sustainable local jobs, early intervention for young people and families in distress, conservation of water catchment areas.
Vicki is fighting to protect the forests, bush, waterways and natural beauty of the Central Coast to maintain a sustainable lifestyle for the residents of Peats, their children and grandchildren.
Her policies include:
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Sustainable development, not over-development.
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More funds for public transport, footpaths and cycleways.
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Developing sustainable local employment programs.
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Clear air and clean water.
Vicki Brooke, February 5