Equality and Respect
Everyone deserves respect and a fair go, no matter their background.
Kylea has committed to working towards:
- Greater support for families, with equal rights for parents to access paid parental leave and universal access to early childhood education and care.
- All 55 of the recommendations from the Respect@work Report into sexual harassment to be fully implemented.
- Developing programs to prevent violence and discrimination against women, including specific measures to reduce the gender pay gap and improve superannuation outcomes for women in Australia.
So far, North Sydney has:
- Co-hosted a panel on Women’s Economic Security, Safety and Certainty.
- Successfully advocated to lift the age of children supported under the Parenting Payment (Single) from 8 to 14 helping 57,000 families
- Co-hosted Women’s Safety Roundtable: The role of the law, the economy and the government
- Served on the Parliamentary Joint Committee for Human Rights, kick-starting an inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework.
- Spoke against the Government’s redesignation of Nauru as a refugee processing centre and seconded Andrew Wilkie’s bill to end indefinite detention
- Advocated against the inhumanity of the current regime in Iran.
- Assisted with over 100 personal immigration cases.
Next steps:
- Continued work with the Parliamentary Joint Committee for Human Rights.
- Preliminary work into a proposed Royal Commission into Australia’s Immigration Detention Policies.
LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS
Stage 3 tax changes, deportation laws and our highly engaged electorate of North Sydney
Sky News, 27 March 2024
In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, Kylea addresses questions on the Labor Government's handling of the Stage Three Tax Cuts, its highly problematic new immigration laws, and the upcoming AEC redistribution.
Statement on the Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill
Media Release, 27 March 2024
The Labor Government’s Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 is highly problematic both for its content and the way it has been moved through parliament, Kylea Tink MP, Independent Federal Member for North Sydney says.
Joint letter to the Immigration Minister re: Fast Track system
Kylea has signed a joint letter to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles about the Government's plan to abolish the Fast Track system, noting that the change still fails to provide a reasonable, fast and fair outcome for the 9,000 people who arrived in Australia as part of a 'Legacy Caseload' more than 10 years ago.
Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill
Debate on Forced Deportation Bill
Rushed bill forcing hundreds of non-citizens to facilitate own deportation passes lower house
The Guardian, 26 March 2024
The Labor Government's rushed deportation bill breaches Australia’s obligation not to forcibly return asylum seekers to their country of persecution, Kylea says.