Vicki Stocks ----- -- -----------------------
Qld Democrats Candidate for Bonner

Email: Vicki.Stocks@qld.democrats.org.au
Phone: (m) 0408 385 404

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Vicki was born in Brisbane in 1979. She grew up in Logan and was educated at a State Primary School, Moreton Bay College for girls, Yeronga Institute of TAFE and the Queensland University of Technology. She has a bachelor degree in Business with a major in accounting.

Vicki has worked as an accountant and auditor in the self managed superannuation industry for ten years. Having worked for a number of respected second-tier accounting and financial planning firms in Brisbane, she now works for herself.

As a young person, Vicki saw first-hand how government decisions can adversely affect one's family and community. She helped her parents run their small retail business, which managed to struggle through the recession of the early 90's only to have their livelihood destroyed by a State Labor government decision to allow extended trading hours for big retail supermarket chains.

During this time, Vicki & her parents became involved in community action groups against the Rochedale Dump (a Liberal party initiative) and the Eastern Tollway (a Labor party initiative). These experiences instilled in her a deep mistrust of the two major parties and a personal awareness of her responsibility to speak up about destructive government policy.

At her first Federal election in 1998, Vicki voted for the Australian Democrats in the Senate because she knew they would not sell out to wealthy interest groups such as labor unions or big business. The Australian Democrats history of campaigning for a common sense approach to developing a sustainable economy was also very appealing to her.

Prior to joining the Australian Democrats, Vicki was a volunteer at her local nursing home. She developed close relationships with a number of elderly residents there but was often saddened by the limited resources the facility had in order to hire the appropriate level of staff. Having done a fair bit of accounting work for wealthy, self-funded pensioners, her experience at the nursing home highlighted a vast gap in the living standards of elderly Australians relying on government assistance.

Vicki is the current Qld Treasurer for the Australian Democrats. She is also the Qld Convener of the Young Australian Democrats which represents members of the party who are under the age of 30. The issues of particular interest to her are aged care, water, tertiary education, housing affordability and small business.

In her spare time, Vicki enjoys playing a game of touch football with the same team she has played with for over five years. She is a member of the Brisbane Lions Football Club and the Brisbane Bullets Basketball Club whom she enjoyed watching win the NBL Premiership earlier this year for the first time in 20 years. Professionally, Vicki is a member of her local chamber of commerce, the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants and CPA Australia. She lives in the suburb of Upper Mt Gravatt with her husband.