Pages tagged "policy_community"
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Does Elon Musk have a point?
The Nightly, 26 November 2024
Nobody opposes efforts to safeguard young people on the internet — but Kylea is named among "a formidable crowd of academics, mental health, legal and children’s rights groups are lining up to warn that a blunt ban is not the way the way to solve such a complex and nuanced problem."
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'Detrimental impact': Independent MP Kylea Tink opposes social media ban
ABC News, 21 November 2024
Kylea says she will oppose the proposed social media ban, describing the plans as an example of Labor chasing headlines over substantive policy reform. "If what's being dished up on social media is having a negative impact on young people, then platforms should be held to account for how that content is moderated," she says.
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2024 Community Survey
North Sydney residents are invited to weigh in on the issues that matter most to you, to ensure Kylea is focused on the community's top priorities.
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Question to the Treasurer on the Childcare Activity Test
House of Representatives, 6 November 2024
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Better and Fairer Schools Bill 2024
Federation Chamber, 6 November 2024
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Statement on proposed social media age restrictions
Media release, 7 November 2024
The Prime Minister’s announcement that he wants to implement a ban on Australians under the age of 16 accessing social media is yet another example of the government chasing populist headlines over policy substance.
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Labor ‘considering a whole range of possible reforms’ on childcare, Chalmers says
The Guardian, 6 November 2024
Kylea has questioned the Government about abolishing the activity test for childcare. In response, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said that the Government is "considering a whole range of possible reforms as part of our commitment to try to get the system as close as we can to something which is a bit more universal."
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Independents pressure Greens to break housing stalemate after Queensland election losses
ABC News, 4 November 2024
Kylea, ACT Senator David Pocock and several other independents are pressuring the Greens to support the Government's Build to Rent Bill that would create thousands of new rental homes. The bill is currently before the Senate.
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Tink shines light on early childhood education
North Sydney Sun, 1 November 2024
Local media coverage of the North Sydney Deliberative Democracy forum on Early Childhood Education and Care. “There is so much more to be done to strengthen our early childhood education and care sector and deliver improved quality, access and affordability," Kylea says. “Informed, community-led discussions such as this one are a vital part of this process. It’s also what our democracy is all about."
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REIA backs bill to recognise housing as a ‘human right’
REB, 30 October 2024
The Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) have called on the federal Parliament to support the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024, which was jointly introduced in both houses of parliament by Kylea and ACT Senator David Pocock earlier this year.