{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox political party | name = | native_name = Affordable Housing Now - <br>Sustainable Australia Party | native_name_lang = | logo = File:Sustainable Australia logo.png | logo_size = | caption = | colorcode = #008751 | abbreviation = SAP | leader1_title = Leader | leader1_name = Celeste Ackerly | leader2_title = | leader2_name = | leader3_title = | leader3_name = | leader4_title = | leader4_name = | leader5_title = | leader5_name = | founded = 2010 {{small|(as Sustainable Population Party)}} | founder = William Bourke<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/25/greens-drive-regular-aussies-into-the-arms-of-pauline-hanson/ |title=The Greens drive regular Aussies into the arms of Pauline Hanson |last=Bourke |first=William |date=25 November 2016 |website= |publisher=Crikey |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=4 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104070834/https://www.crikey.com.au/2016/11/25/greens-drive-regular-aussies-into-the-arms-of-pauline-hanson/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | registered = {{start date and age|df=y|23 September 2010}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/2010/3780.htm |title=Registration of the Stable Population Party of Australia |last= |first= |date= |website=aec.gov.au |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=1 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101025821/https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/2010/3780.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> | dissolved = | merger = | split = | predecessor = | merged = | successor = | headquarters = Crows Nest, New South Wales, Australia | student_wing = | youth_wing = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap| |Anti-corruption<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/2025_wa_election |title=Western Australia - Sustainable Australia Party |last= |first= |date= |website=www.sustainableaustralia.org.au |publisher=Sustainable Australia Party (SAP) |archive-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250215145113/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/2025_wa_election |url-status=live }}</ref> |Environmentalism<ref name=ABC>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 May 2019 |title=Your cheat sheet to every party running in the Senate this federal election |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-16/federal-election-every-party-running-for-a-senate-spot/11111752 |work=ABC News |location= |access-date=}}</ref> |Sustainable development<ref name=SMH>{{cite news |last=Eddie |first=Rachel |date=20 May 2022 |title=Socialists, separatists and splinter groups - your Victorian Senate ticket guide |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/socialists-separatists-and-splinter-groups-your-senate-ticket-guide-20220518-p5amcd.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |location= |access-date= |archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620023705/https://www.smh.com.au/national/socialists-separatists-and-splinter-groups-your-senate-ticket-guide-20220518-p5amcd.html |url-status=live }}</ref> }} | colors = {{color box|#008751|border=silver}} {{color box|#00205b|border=silver}} Green and navy blue | slogan = <nowiki />#EnvironmentFirst<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/our_party | title = Our Party - Sustainable Australia Party | website = sustainableaustralia.org.au | publisher = Sustainable Australia Party | access-date = 12 June 2023 | archive-date = 11 June 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230611162745/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/our_party | url-status = live }}</ref> | seats1_title = House of Representatives | seats1 = {{Infobox political party/seats|0|151|hex=#008751}} | seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = {{Infobox political party/seats|0|76|hex=#008751}} | seats3_title = Campbelltown City Council | seats3 = {{Infobox political party/seats|1|15|hex=#008751}} | seats4_title = Victoria Park Town Council | seats4 = {{Infobox political party/seats|1|8|hex=#008751}} | website = {{URL|https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/}} | country = Australia }} The '''Sustainable Australia Party''' ('''SAP'''), officially registered as '''Affordable Housing Now - Sustainable Australia Party''',<ref>{{Cite web |last=corporateName=Australian Electoral Commission; address=10 Mort Street |first=Canberra ACT 2600; contact=13 23 26 |title=Party registration decisions and changes |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registration_Decisions/index.htm |access-date=2026-03-21 |website=Australian Electoral Commission |language=en-AU}}</ref> is a political party in Australia that was formed in 2010.<ref name="AEC register" />
thumb|SAP Founder William Bourke
==History==
=== Federal and state registrations === The party has been registered federally since 2010. In 2016 it also registered in the Australian Capital Territory, and contested the 2016 Australian Capital Election. In 2018 it also registered in Victoria for the 2018 state election<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/CandidatesAndParties/CurrentRegisteredParties.html |title=Currently registered parties |publisher=Victorian Electoral Commission |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=9 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109155033/https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/CandidatesAndParties/CurrentRegisteredParties.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and NSW for the 2019 state election.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Funding-and-disclosure/public-register-and-lists/Register-of-Parties/State-Register-of-Parties |title=State Register of Parties |publisher=New South Wales Electoral Commission |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=20 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120194603/https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/Funding-and-disclosure/public-register-and-lists/Register-of-Parties/State-Register-of-Parties |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Foundation issue and evolution === In 2010 the party opposed Kevin Rudd's support for a "big Australia", saying that a large population would be "disastrous",<ref name="Issue Background">{{cite web|url=http://www.populationparty.org.au/Issue-Background|title=Issue Background|publisher=Australian Stable Population Party|access-date=5 September 2013|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927152505/http://www.populationparty.org.au/Issue-Background|url-status=live}}</ref> is "way beyond [Australia's] long-term carrying capacity",<ref name="Issue Background" /> and that "population growth is not inevitable".<ref name="Issue Background" /> The party claims that "'stable population' policies would mean a more sustainable 26 million at 2050, not the Labor/Liberal 'big Australia' plan for 36 million and rising."<ref name="Early Flyer">{{cite news|title=POPULATION - THE EVERYTHING ISSUE|date=20 January 2013|newspaper=Flyer Distribution}}</ref>
Sustainable Australia Party used to be called the Sustainable Population Party. 'Sustainable Australia' was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 18 January 2016, accompanied by a broader policy platform. The party missed out on registration for the 2010 federal election by several days, but leader William Bourke ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in New South Wales on an independent ticket with poet Mark O'Connor. The party was registered shortly after the election, on 23 September 2010.<ref name="AEC register">{{cite web |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/ |title=Current register of political parties |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |date=22 February 2019 |access-date=7 March 2019 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518102159/https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The party was registered as "Stable Population Party of Australia", but on 28 February 2014 the Australian Electoral Commission approved a name-change to the "Sustainable Population Party".<ref name="AEC register" /> On 19 January 2016, the AEC approved a further name change to "#Sustainable Australia" (including a hash symbol).<ref name="aecreg">{{cite web|title=#Sustainable Australia|url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/sustainable.htm|website=Current Register of Political Parties|publisher=AEC|access-date=19 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127114321/http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/sustainable.htm|archive-date=27 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was later registered as the Sustainable Australia Party – Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption.<ref>{{Cite web |last=corporateName=Australian Electoral Commission; address=10 Mort Street |first=Canberra ACT 2600; contact=13 23 26 |title=Party registration decisions and changes |url=https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/2020/index.htm |access-date=2026-03-21 |website=Australian Electoral Commission |language=en-AU}}</ref>
The party ran at least two Senate candidates in every state and territory in the 2013 Australian federal election and many local candidates also.<ref name="Candidates">{{cite web|url=http://www.populationparty.org.au/Population-Party-Election-Candidates|title=Population Party - Candidates|publisher=Australian Stable Population Party|access-date=7 September 2013}}</ref> Timothy Lawrence was the candidate for Australian Stable Population Party in the 2014 Griffith by-election, arising from the resignation of Kevin Rudd. Lawrence received 666 votes, 0.86% of the primary vote. The party also contested the April 2014 re-run in Western Australia of the 2013 federal Senate elections.<ref name="Candidates" /> The party endorsed Angela Smith, an environmental scientist and a local candidate, for the 2015 Canning by-election. In September 2015 the party campaigned on a number of issues including education, paid jobs, infrastructure, health care, renewable energy and housing affordability.
In the 2015 North Sydney by-election its candidate and founder William Bourke received 2,189 votes, representing 2.88% of the primary votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-19402-137.htm |title=House of Representatives Division First Preferences |access-date=2013-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207231925/http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-19402-137.htm |archive-date=7 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/north-sydney-by-election-2015/results/|title=Results|website=ABC News}}</ref>
The party has been involved in a preference harvesting scheme organised by Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/bitter-dispute-erupts-over-senate-preferences-in-queensland/4939300|title=Bitter dispute erupts over Senate preferences in Queensland|first=Trevor|last=Bormann|date=5 September 2013|website=ABC News|access-date=7 March 2019|archive-date=24 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324204948/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/bitter-dispute-erupts-over-senate-preferences-in-queensland/4939300|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/federal-election/alliance-of-micro-parties-boosts-odds-for-likes-of-one-nation-or-shooters-and-fishers-gaining-senate-spot-through-preferences/news-story/8e51913eba82eb2a102de63c0e28d47d|title=Micro parties alliance boosts their odds|date=5 September 2013|website=www.dailytelegraph.com.au|access-date=7 March 2019|archive-date=14 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614133326/https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/federal-election/alliance-of-micro-parties-boosts-odds-for-likes-of-one-nation-or-shooters-and-fishers-gaining-senate-spot-through-preferences/news-story/8e51913eba82eb2a102de63c0e28d47d|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the 2016 federal election, Sustainable Australia was led temporarily by ex-Labor Minister for Sustainability, Andrew McNamara.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mysunshinecoast.com.au/news/news-display/what-went-wrong,44610|title=What went wrong?|website=My Sunshine Coast|access-date=27 September 2018|archive-date=11 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211222835/https://mysunshinecoast.com.au/news/news-display/what-went-wrong,44610|url-status=live}}</ref> The party fielded two senate candidates in each of the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, as well as a candidate in the Division of Sydney for the House of Representatives,<ref name="2016candidates">{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm |title=Candidates for the 2016 federal election |date=12 June 2016 |access-date=12 June 2016 |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |archive-date=13 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613080512/http://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> where Kris Spike received 605 votes, 0.69% of the votes.
The party received media attention in 2017 when Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith joined the party.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dick Smith joins lower immigration party|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/07/dick-smith-joins-lower-immigration-party|website=News|access-date=24 September 2017|language=en|archive-date=24 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924182148/http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/07/dick-smith-joins-lower-immigration-party|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Masanauskas|first1=John|title=Businessman Dick Smith joins political party Sustainable Australia|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/businessman-dick-smith-joins-political-party-sustainable-australia/news-story/a4ae0a963bae260775522762db9e15fd|website=Herald Sun|access-date=24 September 2017}}</ref>
Sustainable Australia won its first parliamentary seat in the 2018 Victorian state election. The party received 1.32% of the primary vote in the Southern Metropolitan Region. However, after favourable preference deals with other parties Clifford Hayes won the 5th Legislative Council seat in Southern Metropolitan Region for the party.
In the 2020 federal Groom by-election SAP's candidate Sandra Jephcott received 6,716 votes, representing 7.8% of the primary votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://results.aec.gov.au/25881/Website/HouseDivisionPage-25881-164.htm|access-date=2021-01-17|title=AEC 2020 Groom by-election results}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-28/garth-hamilton-wins-groom-byelection-toowoomba/12931662|title=Garth Hamilton elected new Member for Groom for the LNP at by-election|website=ABC News|date=28 November 2020|access-date=17 January 2021|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123072447/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-28/garth-hamilton-wins-groom-byelection-toowoomba/12931662|url-status=live}}</ref>
At the 2021 NSW local government elections, SAP's North Sydney Council candidates William Bourke and Georgia Lamb were elected as Councillors with 13.1% and 10.7% of the primary vote in their respective wards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/nswlg/2021/north-sydney|access-date=2022-01-22|title=North Sydney - Notes on the Election|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|archive-date=23 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123125649/https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/nswlg/2021/north-sydney|url-status=live}}</ref> William Bourke was subsequently elected Deputy Mayor by a vote of all North Sydney Councillors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/north-shore/north-sydney-mayor-election-showdown-looms-between-jilly-gibson-zoe-baker/news-story/5797c788a07c806b24cab76149c225aa|access-date=2022-01-22|title=North Sydney mayor makes shock exit from mayoral contest}}</ref>
In 2023, SAP's Daniel Minson was elected to Victoria Park Town Council in Western Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Members of Parliament (MPs) & Councillors |url=https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/mps |publisher=Sustainable Australia Party |access-date=3 February 2024 |archive-date=3 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203042614/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/mps |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2024, the party lost both of its councillors in North Sydney, but gained a seat in Campbelltown.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401/campbelltown/councillor |title=City of Campbelltown - Councillor Election results |access-date=2 October 2024 |archive-date=3 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241003115320/https://vtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LG2401/campbelltown/councillor |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Policies== ===Victoria=== Sustainable Australia's Victorian MP Clifford Hayes has campaigned for a sustainable environment and called for a container deposit scheme to be introduced in Victoria to reduce waste and stop rubbish going into landfill.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/04/20/03/victoria-news-tonnes-of-recyclable-rubbish-going-into-landfill|title='We need solutions now': Tonnes of recycling in Victoria going into landfill|date=4 March 2019|publisher=Nine News|access-date=10 March 2019|archive-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304145909/https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/04/20/03/victoria-news-tonnes-of-recyclable-rubbish-going-into-landfill|url-status=live}}</ref>
Following this, Hayes also campaigned for a large environmental reserve in Melbourne's west to protect endangered species and ecosystems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/from-grassland-to-wasteland-victoria-breaks-promise-to-create-environmental-reserve-20190512-p51mjd.html|title=From grassland to wasteland: Victoria breaks promise to create environmental reserve|date=12 May 2019|publisher=The Age|access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
Hayes also spoke strongly in favour of boosting Victoria's legislated renewable energy target, or VRET, to 50 per cent by 2030 in that state parliament's upper house, saying we have been in the middle of a climate crisis for a long term and we need to take action across all sectors from energy to transport, construction and more.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Yes2Renewables/status/1184674178537902081|title=Yes2Renewables|date=16 October 2019|publisher=Twitter|access-date=25 October 2019|archive-date=17 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017070155/https://twitter.com/Yes2Renewables/status/1184674178537902081|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the 2018 Victorian state election, policies that Sustainable Australia ran on included:<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey |first1=Adam |title=Party in the upper house: Who's who on new Victorian crossbench |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/party-in-the-upper-house-who-s-who-on-new-victorian-crossbench-20181211-p50li6.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=11 December 2018 |publisher=Fairfax Media |access-date=9 September 2020 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306120502/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/party-in-the-upper-house-who-s-who-on-new-victorian-crossbench-20181211-p50li6.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * Campaigning against rapid population growth * Campaigning for tighter residential planning laws * Scaling back Australia's migration rate to about 70,000 people a year, while preserving refugee intakes at 14,000 to 20,000. * Giving "real power to local communities in planning decisions" * Increasing charges to developers when land is rezoned for housing.
===Federal and state policies=== * At the Federal level of government, a policy is to reduce the country's immigration intake, from record high levels<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1617/Quick_Guides/MigrationStatistics#_Table_3:_Net|title=Migration numbers from Australian Parliamentary Library|website=www.aph.gov.au|access-date=7 March 2019|archive-date=9 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209093351/https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1617/Quick_Guides/MigrationStatistics#_Table_3:_Net|url-status=live}}</ref> of over 200,000 to 70,000 people per annum.<ref name="policy">{{cite web|url=https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies|title=Policy Platform|website=Sustainable Australia|access-date=1 December 2018|archive-date=1 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201135218/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies|url-status=live}}</ref>{{BCN|date=March 2023}} * Target a population in Australia of under 30 million "through to and beyond 2050".<ref name="Policies"/> * Setup an independent Federal Commission to monitor and expose corruption.<ref name=SAP>{{cite news |last=Sustainable Australia Party |date=2015|title=Sustainable Australia Party - Anti-corruption & Governance |url=https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance |work=Sustainable Australia Party |access-date= 19 June 2024}}</ref> * On housing affordability, Sustainable Australia bases its solutions on restricting foreign ownership of residential property, cutting immigration, and on taxation measures (such as phasing out the 50% Capital Gains Tax discount on residential investment property and abolishing negative gearing on residential investment property). The party believes that "with a sustainable environment and much more stable population, you can simultaneously achieve affordable housing (due to less buyer demand) and better planning (to stop over-development)".<ref name="policy" />{{BCN|date=March 2023}} * On the environment, the party advocates for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below year 2000 levels by 2050, or cutting further if possible.{{cn|date=March 2023}} * Cut the cost of public transportation by at least half and expand train and/or bus networks.<ref name="Policies">{{cite web |url= https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies |title= Policies - Sustainable Australia Party |website= sustainableaustralia.org.au |publisher= Sustainable Australia Party |access-date= 23 March 2024 |archive-date= 15 March 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240315214354/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/policies |url-status= live }}</ref> * The establishment of a national job guarantee.<ref name="Policies"/> * The implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) or citizen's dividend of minimum "$500+ per week ($26,000 per annum, indexed from 2021)" to all Australians as a method of poverty prevention.<ref>{{cite web |last= Bourke |first= William |date= 10 October 2023 |title= A universal basic income for Australians - Sustainable Australia Party |url= https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/a_universal_basic_income_for_australians |website= Sustainable Australia Party |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250809173528/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/a_universal_basic_income_for_australians |archive-date= 9 August 2025 |access-date= 31 March 2026 |quote= Every Australian should be entitled to a minimum basic income – or citizen dividend - of $500+pw.}}</ref><ref name="Policies"/>
==Electoral results== ===Federal===
{| class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan=2|Election year ! colspan=4|House of Representatives ! colspan=4|Senate ! rowspan=2|Name of party <br/> (at time of poll) |- ! Votes (#) ! Votes (%) ! Seats ! +/– ! Votes (#) ! Votes (%) ! Seats ! +/– |- ! 2013 | 3,954 | 0.03 | {{Composition bar|0|150|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | 12,671<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-17496-NAT.htm|title=Senate 2013 First Preferences By Group|website=Australian Electoral Commission|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018002351/http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-17496-NAT.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> | 0.09 (#30) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | Stable Population Party |- ! 2014 special | align=center colspan=4| N/A{{efn|This election was only for Senate candidates in Western Australia}} |3,063 |0.24 (#25) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | Sustainable Population Party |- ! 2016 | 606 | 0.00 | {{Composition bar|0|150|hex=#008751}} | {{decrease}} | 26,341<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroupByVoteType-20499-NAT.htm|title=Senate 2016 First Preferences By Group|website=Australian Electoral Commission|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09|archive-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409171847/http://results.aec.gov.au/20499/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroupByVoteType-20499-NAT.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> | 0.19 (#30) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | Sustainable Australia Party |- ! 2019 | 35,618 | 0.25 | {{Composition bar|0|151|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | 59,265 | 0.41 (#16) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | Sustainable Australia Party |- ! 2022 | 3,866 | 0.03 | {{Composition bar|0|151|hex=#008751}} | {{decrease}} | 78,181 | 0.52 (#11) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} | Sustainable Australia Party |- ! 2025 | align=center colspan=4| ''Did not contest'' | 58,090 | 0.37 (#20) | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex=#008751}} | {{decrease}} | Sustainable Australia Party |}
===State=== {| class="wikitable" |- !rowspan=2|Election year !colspan=4|Lower House !colspan=4|Upper House |- ! Votes (#) ! Votes (%) ! Seats ! +/– ! Votes (#) ! Votes (%) ! Seats ! +/– |- ! 2018 Victoria |align=right| 8,183 |align=right| 0.23 | {{Composition bar|0|88|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |align=right| 29,866 |align=right| 0.83 | {{Composition bar|1|40|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} 1 |- ! 2022 Victoria |align=right| |align=right| | {{Composition bar|0|88|hex=#008751}} | |align=right| 17,537 |align=right| 0.47 | {{Composition bar|0|40|hex=#008751}} | {{decrease}} 1 |- ! 2019 NSW |align=right| 69,831 |align=right| 1.53 | {{Composition bar|0|93|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |align=right| 65,102 |align=right| 1.46 | {{Composition bar|0|42|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |- ! 2023 NSW |align=right| 103,710 |align=right| 2.10 | {{Composition bar|0|93|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |align=right| 42,902 |align=right| 0.85 | {{Composition bar|0|42|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |- ! 2020 ACT |align=right| 4,593 |align=right| 1.71 | {{Composition bar|0|25|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |align=center colspan=4 |N/A {{efn|The ACT has a Unicameral parliament}} |- ! 2021 WA |align=right| 1,356 |align=right| 0.1 | {{Composition bar|0|59|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |align=right| 4,405 |align=right| 0.31 | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |- ! 2025 WA |align=right| |align=right| | {{Composition bar|0|59|hex=#008751}} | |align=right| 16,732 |align=right| 1.08 | {{Composition bar|0|36|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |- ! 2022 SA |colspan=2 align=center| N/A {{efn|The party did not contest any seats in the House of Assembly}} | {{Composition bar|0|47|hex=#008751}} | {{nochange}} |align=right| 4,003 |align=right| 0.36 | {{Composition bar|0|22|hex=#008751}} | {{increase}} |}
==Elected representatives== ===State=== ====Victoria==== * Clifford Hayes – Victorian Legislative Council (2018–2022)
===Local=== ====New South Wales==== * Cameron McEwan – Campbelltown City Council (2024–present) * William Bourke – North Sydney Council (2021–2024) * Georgia Lamb – North Sydney Council (2021–2024)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dahlstrom |first1=Michael |title=Sydney council investigates banning leather and fur items |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/sydney-council-investigates-banning-leather-fur-items-054925124.html |publisher=Yahoo! News |access-date=9 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212080946/https://au.news.yahoo.com/sydney-council-investigates-banning-leather-fur-items-054925124.html |archive-date=12 December 2024 |date=10 January 2023}}</ref>
====Western Australia==== * Daniel Minson – Victoria Park Town Council (2024–present)<ref>{{cite web |title=Members of Parliament (MPs) & Councillors |url=https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/mps |publisher=Sustainable Australia Party |access-date=9 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250215151832/https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/mps |archive-date=15 February 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * List of political parties in Australia
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/}}
{{Australian political parties}} {{Political parties in Victoria (Australia)}}
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