SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY - STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT / CORRUPTION

SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY - STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT / CORRUPTION
https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/

It’s time for the NIMBY party! Sustainable Australia were formed in 2010. Their original name was the Sustainable Population Party. They have one member in the Victorian LC, thanks to preference deals in group voting tickets that election. They think of themselves as centrists. The WA branch of the party only got itself registered last year, in preparation for this election. So they’re new kids on the block as far as WA state elections are concerned.

Sustainable Australia are on my shit list for their stupid name. It’s not the MOST stupid of the election but it’s pretty bad: all caps with a slogan included in the name. They have form for particularly stupid names: you may recall during the 2016 federal election they were using the name #Sustainable Australia, yes with the hashtag. It’s always a bit hard to take a party seriously when they are changing their name every election, trying to find a way to get that edge. It’s both cynical and ridiculous.

Okay, enough about petty things that irritate me, on to the policy platform.
 

( Policy Analysis )

Any Predictions?

Yes! Sustainable Australia Party will blame immigration.

At this point I haven’t seen any outright comments about immigration causing COVID, but that’s because I can’t be bothered scrolling back to March 2020. I have no doubt they fully believe the border closures and no immigration have protected us from the scourge, however: it’s a popular view.


Is this party trying to kill me?

Sustainable Australia don’t want to kill me or anyone else. They’d actually quite like to protect the environment. They’d just like everyone to stop having babies.


Is this party trying to harm me?

As an Australian citizen, Sustainable Australia are not out to harm me. But I can’t help but feel their policies are harmful for my friends who are on visas, as they’re generally implying they would rather my friends weren’t here.


Conclusion:

I’m going to be blunt and rude. Sustainable Australia always read as a bunch of slightly out of touch kind racist boomer NIMBYs to me. They want change! But at a pace they’re comfortable with, where they don’t have to encounter too many new or challenging ideas. Their issue sets always read as if they haven’t bothered running them past the nearest under 45 year old in reach – they don’t HAVE positions on the ‘cool’ or currently trending issues. They haven’t heard of intersectionalism. They’ve got that whiff of being a bunch of ageing tryhards. On the upside, their environmental and healthcare policies are generally good, as is their concern in trying to ensure there is less government corruption. The issue is that everything, but everything, comes back to their belief that there are too many people coming to Australia. On the downside: if you have to write a whole article about why you’re not really racist, you might need to face the fact that you appear pretty damn racist to outsiders.


On the basis of their opinions on health and the environment, I would consider that they deserve a look in somewhere central on your ballot, but I cannot endorse them any higher than that. They are certainly less dangerous than the swarm of right wing populists, but I'd probably feel more comfortable with them being around Labor on my ballot. And quite possibly below it.