Carolyn Kerr ----- --------------------- --
Qld Democrats Candidate for Fisher

Email: Carolyn Kerr@qld.democrats.org.au
Phone: (m) 0419 123 349

Carolyn Dianna Kerr was born in December, 1968, the daughter of a fisherman she grew up in the small village of Crowdy Head, NSW with a population of 300.

She finished high school at The Presbyterian Ladies College in Armidale, NSW in 1984. She has a statement of attainment in Secretarial Studies, a Diploma in Beauty Therapy and a Certificate in Policing with the NSW Police Service in which she was stationed in Inverell, NSW in 1988. She recently achieved a Cert II in Security Operations and holds a 'Positive Notice Blue Card' and she is currently going through the process of becoming an emergency foster carer.

Ms Kerr is now working in the Security industry. She is researching the planning and design of a future destination point for youth, to excite them off the streets by providing innovative entertainment with road safety and life education skills. The destination point is being designed to provide valuable financial sustainability for the Not-For-Profit, Stakki Stikka road safety project. Carolyn founded Stakki Stikka after witnessing a tragic accident where a young man almost died because he was not wearing a helmet. She realised it could have been one of her children and became determined to address the issue in a common sense, effective way. Her advocacy has resulted in her receiving a Premier's road safety award and a CARRS-Q scholarship for post graduate study in road safety

Carolyn moved her children to the Sunshine Coast in 1998 to give them all the opportunities life has to offer through education, sport, lifestyle, health and careers. "But then the cracks started to appear"; issues within the education system; the Dr Death scandal and the exposure of tragic issues in the health system; inferior and dangerous road surfaces; youth deaths on the roads; the damage being done to the commercial fishing industry; the obesity epidemic; the deregulation of the dairy industry; overburdened emergency services; the dark side of nightlife; taxes; the price of fuel; the water crisis and the irreparable damage of the proposed Traveston Dam... and don't forget Centrelink and welfare-into-work; the links between the social impact on families, child and domestic abuse, violence and crime are not recognised.

Carolyn's frustrations with these issues and overlooked links have driven her to work and fight for 'whole of community' issues. She thinks we should utilize the 'wisdom of our elders'. She is looking forward to representing the common sense approach of the Democrats at a time when extremism is tainting politics.