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
Have your say on Childcare
Kylea will be hosting a North Sydney Community Forum to identify practical and effective policy solutions to improve the affordability and accessibility of childcare 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?
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.
Joint crossbench letter on asylum seeker visa processing
Kylea has signed a joint crossbench letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke calling for a clear and timely pathway to permanency for asylum seekers, following the tragic death of Melbourne man Mano Yogalingam.
Crossbench MPs call on prime minister to make pathway for asylum seekers stuck in 'limbo'
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.