Media release, 28 October 2024

The North Sydney community has come together in a Deliberative Democracy Forum to pull apart the issues that affect families' access to early childhood education and care and assist in the development of community-inspired policy solutions.

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Australia's Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector has struggled to meet the needs of families and staff for some time. Fees are expensive and rising faster than inflation. The sector is dealing with long waitlists and a shortage of workers.

These challenges are particularly acute in our electorate, where parents are paying up to $200 a day in fees. This has impacted social equity, childhood educational outcomes, and female workforce participation, costing the nation an estimated $167.8 billion in potential economic gains per year.

The North Sydney Deliberative Democracy forum on Early Childhood Education and Care brought together a randomly selected, demographically representative group of local residents to help improve the affordability and availability of ECEC.

The full-day forum was held on Sunday 27 October. It was our community’s second major exercise in Deliberative Democracy — where relatively small but representative groups of people engage in well-informed and robust discussion to make judgements on specific issues.

A total of 40 North Sydney residents were invited to attend. Participants spent the day reviewing community submissions alongside advice from sector experts to ultimately come to a consensus on the reform that we in North Sydney should be fighting for.

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Kylea has made a submission in support of the National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill 2024 (No. 2), which aims to address the ongoing housing crisis by establishing the legislative framework needed for a more consistent, constructive and cohesive approach to housing in Australia.

Read her submission here.

The Weekly Times, 18 September 2024

Local media coverage of the Australian Electoral Commission's boundary redistribution decision and TeamTINK's community gathering.

Read the front-page article here.

ABC Radio, 16 September 2024

Kylea tells ABC's Craig Reucassel that she is disappointed that the two seats abolished — North Sydney and Higgins — were held by women. "I believe the AEC was working within the framework that it currently has, but I can't help but think that that framework is flawed," she says.

Listen to the interview here.

House of Representatives, 11 September 2024

House of Representatives, 11 September 2024

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.

Read the article here.

Daily Telegraph, 12 September 2024

"I continue to believe that the two major parties do not represent the best of us as a nation," Kylea says. "I believe all of us Australians have a responsibility to turn up and work together to try and make sure that the country that we leave for our kids is better than the country that we were born into."

Watch the news segment here.