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An Independent Candidate for North Sydney has said that “solutions” need to be created as soon as possible after the NSW government is preparing to delay several multi-billion dollar projects.
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Dozens plead in person to retain North Sydney
September 03, 2024
North Shore Living, 1 September 2024
Local media coverage of the Australian Electoral Commission's (AEC) inquiry about the proposed electoral boundary redistribution. "My concern is for people who identify as being from this area and the potential this boundary redistribution has to tear that community apart," Kylea says.
Young people put mental health at forum forefront
September 03, 2024
North Shore Living, 1 September 2024
Local media coverage of the second meeting of the North Sydney Youth Forum, which brought together two Year 10-11 students from each school in the electorate to discuss youth mental health and wellbeing, and the Commonwealth Government's proposed social media ban.
Crossbench MPs call on prime minister to make pathway for asylum seekers stuck in 'limbo'
September 03, 2024
ABC News, 31 August 2024
Media coverage of a crossbench letter that calls on the Commonwealth Government to create a "timely pathway to permanency" for thousands of asylum seekers in visa limbo.
Crossbench MPs call for permanent residency pathway for asylum seekers
September 03, 2024
SBS World News, 31 August 2024
Kylea has led a group of 25 crossbench politicians in signing an open letter telling Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke that we cannot afford to lose another life to the broken asylum seeker visa system.
MPs call on Albanese government to reverse LGBTQI+ census backflip
August 30, 2024
News.com.au, 29 August 2024
Kylea is named among the Members of Parliament who have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the Government's decision not to include more categories for gender and sexuality in the 2026 Census.
Super tax bill delay a ‘sure sign’ of issues with Senate approval
August 29, 2024
The Australian, 28 August 2024
Media coverage of ongoing issues with the Federal Government's the super tax bill. Kylea has opposed both the taxation of unrealised gains and the lack of indexation of the $3 million threshold.
Independents and the Greens are demanding an end to new gas projects
August 29, 2024
The Australian, 27 August 2024
"Australia doesn’t need new gas projects," Kylea says. "We must accelerate the transition towards cheaper, cleaner energy, not open up new gas projects. This includes reconsidering resource taxation and pursuing policies that help decarbonise and electrify the economy, and that support renters and households to get off gas."
Who's in charge when politicians are behaving badly?
August 29, 2024
Triple J Hack, 23 August 2024
Media coverage of the push to improve parliamentary behaviour.
Listen from the 2'40" mark here, or see a clip on Instagram here.
What advisers are telling clients about the $3m super tax
August 29, 2024
Australian Financial Review, 23 August 2024
Financial advisers are urging a quick resolution to the parliamentary stalemate over Labor's proposed superannuation taxation reform. Kylea has opposed elements of the reform, including the lack of indexation of the $3 million cap and the taxation of unrealised gains, which will overwhelmingly hurt SMSFs.
‘Unlike any workplace I’ve ever been in’: The push to punish MPs for bad behaviour
August 22, 2024
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 2024
Kylea says she will work through the newly introduced Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission legislation "to understand how it can lift that standard or behaviour and if it covers things like electronic direct mail that is disrespectful, inflammatory or propagates misinformation.”
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