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NOW | Create a fair and sustainable Australia | Independent community movement with science and evidence-based policies. 🌏 | Auth'd by William Bourke 20 Burlington St Crows Nest NSW.

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · May 9

THIS is what Australia's economy should prioritise - value-added manufacturing - not property speculation. 👩‍🔧

📰 The world’s largest 100 per cent battery electric ship has been officially launched at a shipyard in Hobart... by Tasmanian ship builder, Incat... 👇
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"This ship changes the game:" World's largest all-electric ferry launches in Tasmania

World's largest 100% battery electric ship launches at shipyard in Hobart, headed for service ferrying passengers and vehicles between Argentina and Uruguay.

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 1h

📰 They are not only overrunning roadsides, native grasslands and coastlines but... making productive farmland unviable... ➡
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT ⚠️

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 16h

📰 The proposed changes keep decisions firmly in a minister's hands… ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT 🐨🐸🦇

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 1d

*Including the Minister for High Immigration, Tony Burke.

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 1d

POLLIE PROPERTIES*

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 1d

📰 “Now Jeremy Rockliff’s [Liberal] government is being propped up by the Greens, things aren’t getting any better.” ➡ [$] www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmani...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 3d

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 4d

📰 Among the bill’s provisions is a new power that would allow the environment minister to approve a project in breach of national environmental standards if it was deemed in the “national interest”. ➡ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/ENVIRONMENT 🌳

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 4d

📰 "...there is no evidence that anyone in this government or the previous government is trying to make houses cheaper. They’re not." ➡ architectureau.com/articles/ric...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 4d

📰 “Housing is Australia’s biggest societal and policy challenge... We are not building enough homes... NAB recognises and embraces the opportunity we have to address this challenge.” ➡ news.nab.com.au/news/nab-s--...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 5d

What is your main concern? 🤔

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 5d

📰Lower workforce participation as full-time workers contributes to higher ‘Extreme Risk’ of mortgage stress for ‘single women’. Only 59% of mortgage holding ‘single women’ work full-time compared to 71% of ‘single men’.➡ www.roymorgan.com/findings/100...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 5d

📰 Locals say the art-deco styled red brick apartment block is one of the cheapest rental opportunities in the suburb with studios costing as little as $390 per week. ➡ 7news.com.au/news/locals-...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 6d

📌The fund is under pressure for spending the equivalent of only eight Sydney homes last year... "Why isn't government investing directly in public and community housing? It's faster, cheaper, and worked the last time Australia faced a housing crisis in post war years." www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 6d

📰 More than 20 sites in the heart of Footscray have planning permits that would deliver more than 4000 apartments, but are sitting idle, in some cases for several years, due to low confidence in the market. ➡ www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 6d

📰 Raising a deposit remains the biggest hurdle for 63% of aspiring buyers... More than one in five (21 per cent) said groceries were their most worrisome bill... ➡ www.realestate.com.au/news/reveale...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/POLICIES 🏡🍅

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 6d

📰 An insufficient amount of new housing when you have elevated population growth leads to higher rental costs and higher housing costs. ➡
www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/prop...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 7d

📰 The most striking finding was the near-universal view that Australia is in a housing crisis: 89% concurred... [but] changing planning and zoning rules to allow more high-density housing was the least popular... ➡ www.smh.com.au/business/the...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 7d

📰 ...the incidence of ‘problem gamblers’ has increased year-on-year for the last two years – from 1.9% in 2022-23, to 2.4% in 2023-24, and 2.9% in 2024-25. ➡ www.roymorgan.com/findings/100...

📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/GAMBLING 🎰

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 7d

📰 ...to a developer who wants to turn it into apartments, shops and eateries. ➡
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

📌 Let’s create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance 🕵️‍♂️

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 7d

📰 Albanese’s 5% deposit scheme is being blamed for contributing to an eye-watering $35,000 increase... Modelling suggests this policy could increase house prices by 10% in the first year alone. ➡ www.news.com.au/finance/econ...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 7d

📰 The issue was forewarned by the EPA three decades ago... “Changes to local hydrology, like filling waterways and wetlands, has directed more urban water into fewer waterways...” ➡ www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🏡

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 8d

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 8d

📰 ...Australian farmland continued to be a magnet for overseas capital. Registered interest in Australian farmland increased to 12.7% in 2024, up 3% since 2022. ➡ www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/foreign_inve... 💰