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FACT CHECK: Sustainable Australia Party's position on population and immigration
The Hon. Kelvin Thomson:
When the economist Leith Van Onselen was recently asked on ABC radio whether his support for a substantial cut in Australia’s migration program meant he was xenophobic, he replied that he supported a return of our migration program to the numbers we had when Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, and Bob Hawke were Prime Minister, and that he presumed that they weren’t regarded as xenophobes.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Casey Council revelations show need for property developer donation ban
The Sustainable Australia Party has called for a ban on all property developer donations and contributions to political parties, following revelations yesterday at Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainable Australia Party calls for government consistency on foreign influence and action on campaign donations
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”.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Labor discovers population
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.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainable Australia Party welcomes government announcement on domestic reservation for natural gas - Better late than never
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.
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MEDIA: William Bourke on Sky News
The government’s newly-announced first home buyers scheme comes with ‘huge risk’, according to the founder of the Sustainable Australia Party, William Bourke.
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REPORT: Three Economic Myths about Ageing: Participation, Immigration and Infrastructure
Ageing countries have higher economic growth - and the improved health and longevity of older people increases their economic contributions.
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MEDIA: Tweed Daily News - Sustainable Australia Party wants to give power back to the people
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”...
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MEDIA: Clifford Hayes calls for better planning to stop over-development
Click to hear Neil Mitchell’s full interview with Clifford Hayes...
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MEDIA RELEASE: 25 Million and Counting
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.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainable Australia Party registers in Victoria to stop overdevelopment
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...
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MEDIA: SMH - The problem record immigration is supposed to solve doesn't exist
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.
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MEDIA: 5AA - Sustainable Australia Party hits Adelaide
Sustainable Australia's Voter Van hits Adelaide (including Hahndorf)...
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MEDIA: New political party drives into Tasmania
Sustainable Australia Party keen to contest elections next year...
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MEDIA: Australia needs a sustainable future
William Bourke talks about the launch of Sustainable Australia's Tasmanian State party...
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MEDIA: Sustainable Australia launches their Victorian political party
Party president William Bourke spoke with 3AW's Tom Elliott and says they're aiming for a more diverse economy.
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VIDEO: William Bourke speaks to Voices for Pittwater community group
We're launching a NSW State party...
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MEDIA: Sydney to hit 8 million people by mid-2050s
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.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Pauline is Dick's last resort
"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."
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MEDIA RELEASE: Parent visa vote-buying undermines budget and public interest
Immigration reform should start with parent visa anachronism: Sustainable Australia Party
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainable Australia (ACT) represented by Indigenous Elder, science father-son
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.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainable Australia Party welcomes NRMA's population growth acknowledgement
Sustainable Australia welcomes the NRMA acknowledgement that Australia’s population growth is the cause of our ever-worsening traffic congestion.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Attack of the $100K Degree
Turnbull government’s higher education “reforms” a financial attack on students
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MEDIA RELEASE: Turnbull’s 30 minute cities plan is his Kevin Rudd “Big Australia” moment
There’s only one serious solution to our clogged cities.
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MEDIA RELEASE: A simpler, fairer tax system
Multinationals Should Pay 50% If Not Paying Their Fair Share of Tax
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MEDIA RELEASE: 24 Million: It’s time to think better, not bigger
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.
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MEDIA: Time to change the Senate voting system, and here's how
The answer to our problems lies simply in handing the power over Senate preferences back to the voters: William Bourke, Sustainable Australia
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VIDEO: William Bourke speaks at North Sydney by-election forum
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...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Refugee posturing by politicians morally misguided
Aid to live safely and sustainably far more effective: Sustainable Australia
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MEDIA RELEASE: Sustainables endorse environmental scientist for Canning
Federal parliament needs more women and scientists: Sustainable Population Party