Kylea Tink (North Sydney, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In 2022, the North Sydney community sent me to parliament to be their authentic voice, rather than a distorted version filtered through a party caucus room. As the last federal member for North Sydney, I wanted to record how that voice and vote has been used.

I've served on three parliamentary joint committees—the human rights committee, the Parliamentary Library committee and the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards—and have fearlessly applied our community's values to those deliberations. I've introduced three private member's bills: the first on cleaner vehicles, the second to end indefinite detention of asylum seekers and children, and one to legislate a rights based approach to housing.

On the 326 bills passed I have spoken 143 times, and moved 82 amendments to 19 different bills to influence climate, industrial relations, tax, superannuation and integrity reforms. I've made over 240 statements, including on ministerial questions and constituent statements. I've attended 90 per cent of divisions, voting with the ALP 49 per cent of the time, to support human rights, HECS, fuel efficiency standards and net zero economy reform, and with the coalition 55 per cent of the time, to support small business, industrial relations and superannuation reform. I voted with the Greens 61 per cent of the time, to support climate policy and environmental reform. I've also consistently supported crossbench colleagues on integrity and accountability, women's safety, climate change mitigation and adaptation and environmental reform.

Contrasting this to party backbenchers, I've done three times the work. I'd say North Sydney's voice has been well and truly heard.