About
Born in Brisbane Anne attended Ascot State School before moving with her family to Melbourne, then Canberra where she went on to University studying politics, history and architectural design. Anne commenced her working life with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Anne returned to Brisbane with her husband where she established a business that complemented his company. After his sudden and unexpected death, Anne scaled back her business to the retail side, enabling her to spend more time with her 2 children.
Anne has been a Kelvin Grove resident for the last 27 years, active in residential action groups to bring about a peaceful and friendly suburb where services, planning and amenity improvements for a better community have been at the forefront of her political lobbying. Following on from her local campaigning Anne was enlisted as a spokesperson and coordinator of city wide campaigns that stopped further freeways carving through residential areas, and joined in outer suburb campaigns to stop freeways impacting on koala habitats. Anne takes a keen interest in the impacts of planning and development including the impacts of Lang Park on local businesses and residential communities.
Anne brings with her a vast wealth of knowledge and experience in business as well as her local resident perspectives. As a parent, and grandparent she is well acquainted with vital role good services, day care, schools and amenities can make to the life of inner-city residents. Anne is absolutely committed to ensure the most vulnerable are looked after, not falling through the cracks of government systems.
As a business woman she knows the challenges of the commercial world, and recognises the impacts that regulation and government planning have on local business, in encouraging revitalisation and maintaining a sense of community that can then feed into tourism and economic opportunities.
There is a clear need for the Greens to be in the Queensland parliament. Currently our politicians are wedded to old ideals and polluting industries. We need vision and the courage to embrace the Greens’ business and economic plans, that only Queensland Greens members in parliament will deliver. Changes that will ensure government proactively supports Australian ideas and inventions, jobs remain here, and we are not being bought out by foreign companies where the wealth of this country is exported overseas.
I need your help to be part of the Greens’ vision.
Please vote 1 Anne Boccabella.
Policies
Clearly the major priorities for me are in the Queensland parliament are:
- the long term economic and budget implications that have arisen as a result of the resources boom, impacting particularly on small businesses.
- continual maintence of inner city day-care and schools to ensure our children receive a high quality care and education, free of pollution stacks, to enable them the best foundations for a bright future
- improved coordination and access to community services across a range of port-folios from family support, mental health, disability and aged care.
- maintaining and improving the Royal Children’s Hospital on the Herston campus, so that family of the north of the river are not risking the life of their children should emergency situation occur when traffic is congested on one of the major arterial roads.
- ensuring coal and coal seam gas do not destroy our agriculture, fishing and tourism industries.
- encourage development and investment in local technologies that can be manufactured by Queenslanders to provide diverse opportunities for young people.
