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.

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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 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

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.

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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.

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Kylea has signed a joint crossbench letter urging the government to reverse its decision to exclude LGBTIQA+ people from the 2026 census.

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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.

Read the letter here.

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.

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SBS World News, 31 August 2024

Kylea has led a group of 25 crossbench politicians in signing an open letter telling Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke that we cannot afford to lose another life to the broken asylum seeker visa system.

Watch from the 12' 55" mark here.