Newsletters 2024
Week 122: What a year for North Sydney Schools!
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Kylea catching up with TeamTINK this week. |
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National NAPLAN results are in, and North Sydney schools have once again done our community proud. North Sydney Girls, North Sydney Boys and St Aloysius College have ranked among NSW's top 15 secondary schools of 2024, while Artarmon Public School had the sixth-highest primary school results and was officially identified as one of 53 high-achieving schools in the state by ACARA. Children are our future. As a society, it is on us to lay the foundations for them to learn and grow into the thoughtful, informed, civic-minded people that our nation needs. Given these results — as well as the very impressive interactions that I've had with local students both within North Sydney and during school visits to Parliament House — our schools are clearly doing something right. Congratulations to the students, teachers, faculty and families on these outstanding results! With Term 4 now winding up for a number of schools in our electorate, it's certainly beginning to feel like the festive season has arrived. The summer holidays are always a busy time for families. However, please remember that term dates vary from school to school, and, as per NSW road rules, school zones remain in force until Friday 20 December. Meanwhile, it was a pleasure to catch up with TeamTINK volunteers this week to celebrate all our efforts over these past 2.5 years as an independent electorate. I'm looking forward to our next online community catch-up on Monday, 9 December at 6pm, when we'll talk about about recent wins, current challenges, and the issues that we will be focusing on in the new year. All North Sydneysiders are very welcome to attend; please register here for details. Finally, an administrative note: the North Sydney Electorate Office will be shut for the Christmas break from 5pm Friday 20 December to Sunday 5 January 2025. In the meantime, if there is anything my office or I can help you with, please do not hesitate to get in touch! - KT
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Expressions of Interest are open for grants of between $1,000 and $5,000 to assist eligible not-for-profit community organisations that rely on volunteers. Grants can be used to purchase communication or insurance items and/or items or services to assist volunteers or volunteer-run activities that support the well-being and development of children (under 18). EOIs close on 10 January 2025. Find out more here. |
IN THE NEWSCalls to change small business definition - ABC The World Today, 5 December 2024. Kylea is interviewed about her crossbench push to change the definition of a small business from the current maximum of 15 employees, to include those enterprises with up to 25 workers. The Federal Government has foreshadowed potentially revisiting the issue in the second half of next year. Teal MPs push for changes to 'small business' definition as election looms - ABC News, 5 December 2024. Kylea and seven other crossbench colleagues have called on the Government to change the definition of "small business" from organisations of up to 15 employees, to up to 25, to help smaller businesses comply with new Fair Work laws. Liberal MP Paul Fletcher sees red over teals, but look deeper and there's more at play - ABC News, 4 December 2024. The May 2022 rise of community independent parliamentarians is "a straightforward [story] of constituency neglect, which almost always drives the emergence of fringe or third-party groupings in this country", Annabel Crabb writes in ABC News. Kylea Tink amplifies Neela's voice on racism and supporting people from a refugee background - Raise Our Voice Australia, 30 November 2024. Kylea delivers a speech to Parliament written by 12 year old constituent, Neela, on racism and supporting people from a refugee background. Coalition dares to dream about Peter Dutton as PM - Daily Telegraph, 30 November 2024. Liberal strategists are charting a path to a 2025 election victory, but "already, Teal seats in Sydney have largely been written off", according to this News Corp interview with a Liberal MP. |
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