In the media
The Australian Financial Review
"Independent candidates targeting the Morrison government at next year’s federal election have seized on the lack progress achieved at the Glasgow climate talks to ramp up pressure on vulnerable Coalition MPs, promising to destabilise the major party campaigns.
Businesswoman Kylea Tink is running against Mr Zimmerman in the safe Liberal seat of North Sydney and said the government’s climate policy, integrity issues and treatment of women were pushing first-time candidates to run."
Recent blog posts
North Sydney seat abolition confirmed
October 01, 2024
North Shore Living, 1 October 2024
Local media coverage of the AEC's final decision to abolish the Federal Seat of North Sydney.
Teals lash Labor for coalmines decision
September 26, 2024
The Australian, 26 September 2024
Kylea has described the Albanese Government's approval of three coal mine extensions as “climate and environmental vandalism”. “This decision fails young people, and fails future generations,” she says.
Albanese urged to ditch Howard-era native forest logging exemptions
September 26, 2024
The Guardian, 22 September 2024
Kylea is among a group of independent parliamentarians that has written to PM pushing for environment law reforms to remove exemptions for native forest logging.
The teals stunned the nation in 2022. How have they changed the parliament?
September 26, 2024
Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 2024
An analysis of how community independent crossbenchers have voted in parliament. Kylea is reported to have "campaigned for a human rights act, on climate change and against bullying in the parliament" so far, and will focus on affordable housing and climate action in the months ahead.
Smeared as agents of chaos, independents are playing an increasingly influential role in Australian politics
September 18, 2024
ABC News, 18 September 2024
ABC's Annabel Crabb analyses the impact that community independents have had in the 47th Parliament of Australia, with one minister acknowledging that the Teals have "stirred up our back bench".
Kylea's last hurrah: Electoral watchdog tweaks boundaries and scraps North Sydney
September 18, 2024
The Weekly Times, 18 September 2024
Local media coverage of the Australian Electoral Commission's boundary redistribution decision and TeamTINK's community gathering.
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