Last year the Liberal Government passed the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act, and it came into effect in December. In doing so it earned attacks from Bill Shorten and Kristina Keneally during the Bennelong Byelection that it was “China phobic”.

Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese's call for a "mature debate" about population is welcome, and would have been even more welcome any time over the past decade, says former federal Labor MP for Wills, Kelvin Thomson.

Sustainable Australia’s National Media Spokesperson Kelvin Thomson has welcomed the announcement by the Federal Government that it plans to introduce a national gas reservation scheme.

The government’s newly-announced first home buyers scheme comes with ‘huge risk’, according to the founder of the Sustainable Australia Party, William Bourke.

Ageing countries have higher economic growth - and the improved health and longevity of older people increases their economic contributions.

Party candidate for Tweed Ronald McDonald, who was a late entry into the race for the seat, told the Tweed Daily News the party's main platform was "sustainability for everything”...

Click to hear Neil Mitchell’s full interview with Clifford Hayes...

Tonight, a new arrival at one of the Australia’s major airports will become the 25th million Australian. Whether temporary or permanent this person will head into one of the major capital cities, either Sydney or Melbourne.

Sustainable Australia Party has successfully registered to contest the Victorian election in November and will campaign for better planning to stop overdevelopment across the state. This follows the centrist party’s recent registration for the New South Wales election in March 2019...

In Australia, an increasing number of people (voluntarily) work past 65, off-setting an increase in the average age and stabilising our workforce participation ratio. Record immigration is the non-solution in search of a non-existent problem.

Sustainable Australia Party founder William Bourke warned that assets of a suburban life such as houses with backyards will become increasingly impossible to own.

Sustainable Australia's Voter Van hits Adelaide (including Hahndorf)...

Sustainable Australia Party keen to contest elections next year...

William Bourke talks about the launch of Sustainable Australia's Tasmanian State party...

Party president William Bourke spoke with 3AW's Tom Elliott and says they're aiming for a more diverse economy.

We're launching a NSW State party...

President of Sustainable Australia William Bourke joins Luke Grant on the Michael McLaren show to discuss the exponential growth of population in major Australian cities.

"Politics is won from the centre, and I liken Dick’s choice — to abandon the middle for One Nation — to the race between the tortoise and the hare."

Greens elitism pushes people to right-wing parties we now see gaining or regaining interest from middle Australia.

Immigration reform should start with parent visa anachronism: Sustainable Australia Party

Sustainable Australia’s first state/territory campaign will see the party contest all five ACT electorates, represented by a diverse range of candidates from an Indigenous Elder to a 20 year old ANU science student.

Sustainable Australia welcomes the NRMA acknowledgement that Australia’s population growth is the cause of our ever-worsening traffic congestion.

Turnbull government’s higher education “reforms” a financial attack on students

There’s only one serious solution to our clogged cities.

Multinationals Should Pay 50% If Not Paying Their Fair Share of Tax

In 2000, then Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock stated that Australia’s population of 19 million would reach about 24 million by 2050.[1] Just 16 years later, that population target has already been reached and official projections show the nation could have 40 million people by 2050.

The answer to our problems lies simply in handing the power over Senate preferences back to the voters: William Bourke, Sustainable Australia

William Bourke campaigns during the 5 December 2015 North Sydney by-election. This was a Chatswood community event on 26 November, run by the Willoughby Progress Association...

Aid to live safely and sustainably far more effective: Sustainable Australia

Federal parliament needs more women and scientists: Sustainable Population Party

"One extra person can produce enough waste to undermine the recycling efforts of 20 citizens."

“It used to be easy to deliver infrastructure when the government owned the land, but because our major cities are already planned and built up, there is no room to retro-fit new infrastructure without expensive additions like land buy-backs and tunnelling,” said William Bourke, President of Sustainable Australia Party.

Total labour-force participation matters, not age: Sustainable Population Party

If we achieve high employment, a diverse economic base, and sustainable resource management, GDP will take care of itself.

Our ageing population presents serious economic challenges. Right?

The global and Australian experience is that migrants aim to live where they believe job prospects are best and also where they have relatives. That is almost always in our few biggest cities. Migrants generally don’t aim to live in remote areas and we simply can’t force them to.

The issues of refugees and population growth should not be cynically linked for political purposes.

More people means more aggregate economic activity, which is the main indicator used to assess economic performance. But it's obvious this is a flawed approach.

In 2011 William Bourke exploded the myth that Australia's immigration program resolves skills shortages.*

IGR3 is a document that shapes vital national policy, so why has the media given it soft touch? On the surface it presents some alarming headline statistics, but there are major oddities in its reasoning.

Increasing costs also make Australian businesses less internationally competitive and threaten exports.

No matter what the business lobby and their well-funded ‘independent’ centres and institutes tell us, endless population growth is not inevitable. It’s a choice.