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Teals push emissions drop of '75 by 35'
North Shore Living, February 2024
With the government due to submit Australia's second emissions target by 2025, "we need to push now to make sure that target is more ambitious than the last and gets us to net-zero as soon as possible," Kylea says.
North Sydney under redistribution threat
North Shore Living, February 2024
Local media coverage of the AEC's upcoming redistribution of NSW federal electorates. "Even if there's not a seat to run for, I may still run in one of the others," Kylea is quoted as saying. "I don't want our community, myself or my team wasting any time worrying about it. There's too much work to do."
Teals seek ‘brave’ conversation on tax reform
AFR, 30 January 2024
Kylea is named among the Independent MPs who are calling for more holistic tax reform, so Australia is less reliant on income taxes.
Teals issue tax cuts warning to Labor
AFR, 29 January 2024
Kylea highlights the impacts felt by high-income households due to the proposed halving of the $9075 Stage 3 tax cut.
Concerns Albanese government is abandoning long-term reform for short-term wins
Sky News, 29 January 2024
"The sense I’m getting from the people in North Sydney is they can understand why this makes sense in the short term, but they are very concerned about the longer term reform that the stage three tax cuts were supposed to be the final part of," Kylea says.
Teals demand 75 percent emissions reduction target by 2035
The Australian, 17 January 2024
“Australia needs to rise to the very real challenges presented by climate change and accept responsibility for the changes we can affect – not just aligning with international benchmarks but helping to drive them further with a bold ambition," Kylea says. "We need far more than a mere ‘less bad’ approach.”
Teal MPs push for 75 per cent emissions cut by 2035
Sky News, 17 January 2024
Independent MP Kylea Tink is calling for the government to implement a more ambitious climate target, asserting that it is based on science. “In Australia we now have a net zero target by 2050, but to be able to achieve that we need to have very clear milestone targets between 2030 and 2050," she says.
Rowdy House: Most-ejected MPs in parliament make no apology
Sydney Morning Herald, 4 January 2024
Media coverage of bad behaviour in Parliament House, including Kylea's view that an independent commission with teeth is needed to enforce standards and impose consequences.
Labor ends year with broken promise as EV policy faces delays
News.com.au, 31 December 2023
A promise by the Albanese government to unveil mandatory pollution caps for new vehicles sold in Australia by the end of 2023 has been broken, sparking fears its landmark EV policy will be put on ice. “It’s worse than frustrating that we’re going to end 2023 without fuel efficiency standards," Kylea is quoted as saying. “Now there’s no timeline — that really concerns me.”
Opinion: Labor’s broken promise on fuel efficiency
The Saturday Paper, 20 December 2023
Australia’s transport emissions are rising and the chances of the federal government introducing fuel efficiency standards by the end of the year are shrinking by the day, Kylea writes in The Saturday Paper.
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