Ahead of next year’s federal election, Kylea Tink has announced her candidacy as North Sydney’s Independent Candidate for Canberra. A blue ribbon seat held by the Liberal Party for 100 years, Kylea is campaigning on issues that matter to people in her electorate like urgent action on climate change, a forward focused economy, a federal integrity commission, and bettering the treatment of women and marginalised groups.
Kylea shares her motivations to join the independents movement and shares why she believes now is a critical time in politics for Australian society. She shares why she wants to hold the powerbase in Canberra accountable and her big motivating moments to run to represent the people of North Sydney who she says care about faster action on climate, integrity and equality.
We talk about Kylea’s history as a successful executive in communications, government health policy and as the CEO of the McGrath Foundation.
Kylea describes the recent proliferation of independent candidates as a reaction to a dissatisfaction that many feel in the lack of true representation and lack of integrity demonstrated by their historically party-affiliated federal representatives. Kylea urges us to take the opportunity to disrupt and recreate this system.
Kylea observes that Australia is 1st globally for women’s education, with significantly more female university graduates than men, but 50th in the world for the gender pay gap, and 70th in the world for women’s workforce participation.
Kylea paints the future of Australia as a sustainable energy super-power, with a favourable landscape and conditions for solar and wind power. Kylea argues that we need a robust plan for transitioning off fossil fuels.
We talk about the role of data in political campaigning, and whether we’re likely to see data used as ubiquitously and effectively here in Australia as it has been in the US. Kylea describes her openness toward the use of data for personalisation of content online, but also reflects on how easy it is for untruths to be used in political campaigns without consequence for the originator and admonishes Australians to be aware of our echo chambers and to seek alternative sources of information.
We discuss misinformation, and what to do about it. Kylea underscores the importance of discourse between people with different opinions and perspectives for facilitating individual and collective sense-making and regrets the apparent preference for group think within the mainstream political parties. Kylea describes her passion for more open public debate.
We then ask Kylea for her view on the question of whether charities should be allowed to engage in advocacy and still retain Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status with the Australian Charities and No-For-Profit Commission (ACNC). We discuss the issue of Government influence on freedom of speech and the challenge that many NFPs may face with the introduction of new legislation to disqualify NFP organisations from DGR status.
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