About
Petrina Maizey majored in English and Philosophy at Macquarie University, and started secondary teaching in Queensland. After nine years as a full-time mother of three, Petrina completed a Masters of Education and now works as a Language Educator for a Brisbane university.
Highly committed to her prime carer role and an active volunteer in local environmental organisations, especially the burgeoning climate movement, Petrina strongly feels that community priorities and wisdom are too often overlooked by today’s political system.
Petrina is aware that Queensland will be unrecognisably transformed within twenty years if the short-sighted decision-making and dangerously outdated attitudes of the major parties continue.
Petrina chose the forward-thinking, grassroots Greens, who for twenty years have warned against the enormous economic and environmental challenges we are now facing. Petrina wants to support Albert through these crucial economic and environmental shifts that have already begun to ensure our electorate takes full advantage of the opportunities ahead while preserving the natural environment that makes Albert a beautiful place to live.
Petrina knows it’s still only the Greens who have the positive solutions to deliver the real and enduring change that Queenslanders want and need for a new future.
Contact Petrina on albert@qld.greens.org.au
Policies
The Transition Decade requires new approaches to old basics.
Albert Greens candidate Petrina Maizey represents exciting, profitable, world-class and realistic solutions to turn today’s problems into opportunities for the enterprises and householders of Albert through :
- Ensuring high quality public transport infrastructure and connectivity
- Maximizing access to massive carbon tax revenue for the businesses, organisations and households of Albert
- Generating green jobs/businesses within Albert
- Assisting household and community changeover to renewable, nuclear-free solutions for clean electricity and lower bills
- Facilitating improved primary, secondary and tertiary level education outcomes for Albert
- Funding significant improvement of Albert's health facilities, including alternative, preventative, mental and dental health
- Improving waste reduction and management strategies
- Honouring seniors, focusing on integration and valuing life experience, and bringing fresh approaches to aged care
- Offering real solutions for carers
- Recognising and protecting Albert's remarkable biodiversity; significantly expanding local ecosystems, and gaining a National Park for Albert
- Bringing the failed Logan and Albert Rivers back to A-Grade health
- Assisting community groups and volunteers through funding
- Reviewing local/national carrying capacity for sustainable population
