Pamela Mariko is proud to be running as your candidate for the Caloundra electorate in the upcoming QLD State Election.

Pamela Mariko recognises the Gubbi Gubbi people as traditional owners of Cullowundoor (aboriginal for Caloundra), on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, where she has resided for twenty-three years. 

Pamela demonstrates her passion for animals, people and nature and lives in line with the yoga philosophy, AHIMSA meaning ‘non-injury to living being’, which supports the Animal Justice Party(AJP) values of kindness, equality, rationality and non-violence. 

Pamela believes that, like human animals, non-human animals also have a basic right to live free from pain and suffering.

She has a diverse background in business: financial services, project marketing, freelance travel and property writing for national media and industry journals, part-time yoga teacher, and author. 

Pamela is not new to the political arena as she has run as a confident candidate in several elections including local government elections in 2020, 2024 and state government elections in 2020 and again in the upcoming general election in October this year.

She has represented AJP Qld as an ordinary committee member and delegate and used her role as Media Liaison to elevate the Party, the Senate and House of Representative candidates through extensive media coverage.

If elected, Pamela would work to ensure the ban on live export could never be overturned by another government. Pamela would advocate for government  incentives to encourage and financially support animal agricultural farmers in transitioning to more lucrative and sustainable farming practices. She would seek to eventually phase out intensive animal farming completely. 

"It is time to limit urban sprawl to protect nature, and I would call for an immediate ban on intensive breeding facilities such as puppy mills and kitten farms.” 

Her agenda includes greener modes of transport, greener industry - and training, so we, as a country, MAKE things.