Newsletters 2024

It's been a huge two years since North Sydney voted to turn our electorate Independent again. Since then, my team and I haven’t wasted a second in advocating for our shared concerns and ambitions, and helping to resolve nearly 8,000 calls for help from constituents.

Everything I have done as your representative has been powered by your feedback. With your input, I have spoken on over 130 separate issues and participated in 213 votes in Parliament, ensuring our community's views are reflected in decisions ranging from superannuation to the introduction of fuel efficiency standards, to advocacy for improvement in our social support services and reform of HECS.

Together, through deliberative democracy events, community working groups and community forums we have also workshopped and developed our own policies on everything from the housing availability and affordability crisis, access to early childhood education and care, youth mental health and ageing well in our community. Not to mention the tireless work of our extraordinary Powering to Net Zero volunteers, to help people navigate the transition to a greener, cleaner and cheaper energy future!

But our work is far from done.

In the coming weeks, my team and I will be will be heading back to Canberra where we will continue to fight for faster action on climate by ensuring fair and effective climate disclosure legislation is introduced. At the same time we will be adding our voice to discussions around reform of the RBA and NDIS. Outside of the normal business of the house I will also be progressing work with others on the crossbench in the areas of housing availability, women’s safety and social media and privacy law reforms. Watch this space for updates in those areas.

At the same time, I will continue to fight to improve the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions Bill as, while our community agrees that superannuation should not be a vehicle for intergenerational wealth transfer, we are also keen to ensure the $3 million threshold is adjusted for inflation so we don't end up inadvertently impacting a much wider cohort of ordinary Australians in future, and that we aren't setting dangerous and unreasonable precedent by taxing unrealised capital gains.

Immigration has been a key topic of interest in our electorate this week, with the Federal Opposition releasing mixed messages about its plans to reduce absolute migration numbers. It’s a policy announcement that has grabbed headlines, as the Opposition has tied it to the debate about housing availability. At the same time, many are concerned about how such a policy would impact not only our workforce but also our number 1 service export business: education, which currently contributes $40 billion annually to our GDP.

Ultimately, as a community, we will need to come to our own position in this debate and I look forward to working through the facts needed to make an informed decision, and to discussing the issue with you in more detail.
At the end of the day, while I may have my own opinions, I appreciate that as your Independent representative in Canberra, it’s my job to make sure our community’s position is taken back to our federal government so thank you in advance for assisting me in clarifying our thinking. Please do get in touch if you are able to share your opinions and expertise with my team.

Finally, thank you for working with me over the past two years; for so generously sharing your stories; for responding to our countless calls for comment; and for engaging with me through my steady stream of communication. Here's to being the change we want to see.

- KT

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Cost of living relief - The Weekly Times, 22 May. Kylea shares her thoughts on measures introduced in the Federal Budget 2024-25, including the $300 energy rebate for every household, which will cost taxpayers a total of $3.5 billion.

Kylea Tink proposes superannuation reform amendment - 2CR, 24 May. Australian-Chinese media coverage of Kylea's amendments to the Government's Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions legislation.

A smoother bus ride is on the way to one of Sydney’s busiest CBDs - Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May. The Federal Government is investing in a $115 million depot for electric buses in Macquarie Park, as well as upgrading bus depots in Willoughby and North Sydney to handle electric buses by 2028.

Super pain as ALP faces another franking credits disaster - The Australian, 24 May. Media coverage of the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions Bill. Kylea is seeking to amend this bill to allow for indexation of the $3 million concession threshold, and to address the unprecedented taxation of unrealised capital gains.

More media mentions here.