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Australian Financial Review

Liberals in at least two key seats will have their work cut out, come the federal election as new polling shows independents, who are campaigning for more action on climate change, are poised to cause considerable disruption.

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Independent raises alarm on social media ban

November 29, 2024

ABC Radio National, 29 November 2024

Despite growing ranks opposing the bill, a ban on social media for under 16s passed the Senate late on the final sitting day of the year. In a radio interview about the ban, Kylea warns that the Bill "doesn't do what it says on the tin".

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Australia Has Barred Everyone Under 16 From Social Media. Will It Work?

November 29, 2024

New York Times, 29 November 2024

The New York Times covers Australia's new social media law, noting that how the restriction will be enforced online remains an open question. Kylea has said that law would stop short of holding social media companies accountable for the safety of the product they are providing. “They are not fixing the potholes; they are just telling our kids there won’t be any cars,” she is quoted as saying.

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Joint media conference on Build to Rent legislation

November 28, 2024

Media conference, 27 November 2024

Housing Minister Clare O'Neil has acknowledged the work of Kylea and others on the crossbench in working towards ways to address Australia's housing crisis. Kylea has described the Build to Rent legislation, which was developed and passed with the support of a broad coalition of parliamentarians, industry groups and social services organisations, as "a milestone in moving ourselves forward as a nation ... This is the best of public policy development: when we lean in together to overcome our differences, to ultimately put the solution at the front of what we're trying to achieve for Australians."

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Labor and LNP strike deal on immigration detention

November 28, 2024

ABC News, 27 November 2024

Media coverage of a behind-the-scenes deal between the Government and Opposition over a suite of migration laws that would enable Australia to pay other countries to take immigration detainees with limited safeguards; block all visitors from countries that won't take back their citizens; and search detainees without a warrant and confiscate their mobile phones. Coalition immigration spokesperson Dan Tehan has described the legislation as "us setting the agenda", while Kylea has criticised the Government's decision to "kowtow to the opposition" ahead of the next election.

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Labor’s legislation backlog leaves genetic discrimination ban stalled

November 28, 2024

The Australian, 26 November 2024

The Labor Government will not legislate a ban on genetic discrimination by the end of the year, despite earlier commitments to do so. Kylea, who played a major role in advocating for the ban, has questioned the delay, to which the Government has responded that it plans to deliver the ban within this term.

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'A dark day in our history': Refugee advocates warn Labor laws put thousands at risk

November 28, 2024

ABC News, 26 November 2024

Kylea says the Government's proposal to give the immigration minister sweeping new deportation powers worsens Australia's "egregious human rights abuse" of refugees. "As a nation, we've been in breach of international human rights law for nearly three decades now in the way that we treat people who seek asylum in our country… Labor had the opportunity to .show that we are better than where previous governments have chosen to take us, but they've taken the coward's route and decided to kowtow to the opposition."

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