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DE-CORRUPT POLITICS to create a fair and sustainable Australia | SAP is an 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... 👇
thedriven.io/2025/05/02/t...

"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 · 22h

📰...councillors backed the petition and voted to cut down the trees*. ➡️ [$] www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breakin...

*Yeah, yeah, we get that they're not native trees, but this creates a precedent.

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🌳🏡

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

Yes, a small step in the right direction.

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

📰 LISTEN: ▶️ Professor Alan Morris from the University of Technology Sydney says this isn’t going far enough to get low-income Australians into secure housing. ➡️ www.thewire.org.au/story/calls-...

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

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

Council is not providing the home, just approving them.

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

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 2d

📰 In Shellharbour, the council has initiated a trial of mobile tiny homes – small moveable homes built in trailers – enabling them to be registered like a vehicle. ➡ www.apimagazine.com.au/news/article...

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

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 2d

📰 With the cockatoo's habitat under further threat from land clearing and wildfires... ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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

Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 2d

Our native wildlife need homes too! 🦜

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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 3d

Artificial nests being trialled to solve palm cockatoo 'housing crisis': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-23/artificial-nest-trial-for-cape-york-palm-cockatoo/105925758

Artificial nests being trialled to solve palm cockatoo 'housing crisis'

Few birds have nesting requirements as finicky as Australia's largest parrot, the palm cockatoo, which is facing its own housing crisis due to a shortage of breeding habitat.

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Sustainable Australia Party @votesustainable.bsky.social · 2d

📰 Soaring home prices are now so far outstripping wage growth that a single person in Brisbane needs at least 28 years to afford a house on their own... ➡ www.realestate.com.au/news/28-year...

📌 *Vote for a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

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

📰 But experts say the situation in Brisbane's busy inner suburbs won't be improving anytime soon... "We're still reliant on cars to get around our city..." ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

📌 Let's create a fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🚲🚍🚄🚏🚶‍♀️

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

📰 ...native grasses are unable to grow due to rabbit overgrazing... ➡ au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-c...

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

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

📰 “The whole ecosystem that has built up around community independents has become a parody (of “independence”) through the use of money as leverage...” ➡ michaelwest.com.au/whats-next-f...

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

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

📰 ACT chief planner George Cilliers said there has been a number of development applications for golf courses, and he expects more in the future. ➡
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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

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

📰 "Treasury assumed... with Boomers retiring... proportion of the population participating in the workforce would keep falling. Wrong. With 67% of working-age population... rate of participation is near record levels." ➡
www.theage.com.au/business/the...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/AGEING 👴

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

📰 "...it’s a shame that neither his government nor the federal government acknowledge the contribution of neoliberalism." ➡ www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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

📰 “The government also needs to invest in green spaces, parks, shopping areas, schools and other amenities... You can’t just build suburbs up with high-, mid- or low-rise apartments, and that’s it.” ➡ www.smh.com.au/property/new...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING 🏡

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

📰 “…residents could be trapped in high-rise apartment buildings during severe weather events.” ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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

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

📰 Under the Critical Mineral [including rare earth] Framework, mining companies will be able to apply for financing for projects that will produce minerals needed for weapons, electronics, renewable technologies... ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/finite_and_n... ⛏

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

📰 He would not say how close the flares came to the Australian planes, but agreed they could have gone into the plane’s mechanisms if they were caught by a wind draught. ➡ www.news.com.au/national/chi...

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

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

📰 Granny flats can be constructed using the system for as little as $75,000, offering an affordable housing alternative as Australia searches for construction solutions... ➡ 7news.com.au/news/aussie-...

📌 A fair and sustainable Australia:
www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

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

📰 That historic precinct is the pride of Sydneysiders today. ...that makes the city special... The community-led green bans helped to change official attitudes about heritage, conservation, and environmentalism. ➡ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/PLANNING

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 7d

The "green bans" in the 1970s saved many of Australia's historic buildings and our cities are richer for them. But a famous economist didn't like them.

'Green bans' saved Sydney's historic buildings and taught economists a lesson

The "green bans" in the 1970s saved many of Australia's historic buildings and our cities are richer for them. But a famous economist didn't like them.

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

📰 ...for each of one Edgecliff development’s 21 affordable dwellings, the bonus would return over $800,000 in value to its developer, while delivering less than $200,000 in rental discounts over 15 years. $13.63M net gain. ➡ www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

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www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/HOUSING 🏡

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

📰 “The biggest problems we face all come back to housing,” NSW Premier Chris Minns said. ➡ www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

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