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
‘Bullying’ allegations trigger independents’ demand for better behaviour in parliament
The Australian, 11 October 2024
Kylea has signed a letter to major party leaders calling on members of the House of Representatives to improve their behaviour in the chamber, citing Anthony Albanese’s remark that an opposition MP had Tourette syndrome and divisive rhetoric used in discussing the Middle East conflict as examples of poor behaviour.
North Sydney Childcare Forum
Have your say on Childcare
Kylea will be hosting the North Sydney Childcare Forum to identify practical and effective policy solutions to improve the affordability and accessibility of early childhood education and care in Australia. We'd love to hear from you: to improve childcare affordability and accessibility, what’s the one big policy idea that you think we should push Canberra to consider?
THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED
Technology-Facilitated Abuse: The Hidden Danger in our Digital Lives
North Shore Mums, 12 September 2024
Kylea urges parents to beware technology-facilitated abuse and to talk to their families about what respectful relationships and problematic behaviour looks like.
National Disability Foundational Supports
Many people with disability do not qualify for the NDIS, but need more support than what is currently available in the community. That’s where the new disability Foundational Supports can help. The DSS is calling for feedback on the design and delivery of these new supports.
Letter to the PM about the exclusion of LGBTIQA+ people from the census
Kylea has signed a joint crossbench letter urging the government to reverse its decision to exclude LGBTIQA+ people from the 2026 census.