Dick Smith has joined a political party for the first time – the federally registered Sustainable Australia – and will be helping the party register for the NSW State election.

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."

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

Our ageing population presents serious economic challenges. Right?

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

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.

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