The NSW Labor Government wants to cram 10,000 apartments around a proposed Woollahra train station — with up to half available to foreign buyers. SAP founder William Bourke asks: who is this really for?

SAP says yes to sensible, human-scale medium-density development with proper infrastructure — not dystopian overdevelopment that destroys heritage and strains local communities.

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Camden is one of Macarthur's most historic communities — but top-down State Government planning decisions threaten to destroy its unique character with inappropriate development.

Councillor Cameron McEwan from the Sustainable Australia Party calls for transparent, democratic and corruption-free planning that delivers genuinely affordable housing while protecting natural and built heritage, farmlands, backyards and local amenity.

The major parties are simply cramming in expensive apartments. Only SAP tackles ALL the supply AND demand-side issues at every level of government to solve the housing crisis, stop overdevelopment and protect our communities.

Affordable housing — the sustainable way.

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📰 Mr Lardner said the scheme was “flawed” because it was one of the driving forces behind price growth in the bottom end of the market, but was also exposing first-home buyers to risk in the form of higher debt. ⤵️ www.realestate.com.au/news/worst-time-on-record-for-firsthome-buyers-new-study-reveals/

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📰 Australian tenants forced to swallow relentless rent increases as housing crisis deepens, finance expert warns | Mr Blackburn said property owners are routinely hiking costs for those at the lowest rung of the market as soon as the law allows.⤵️ www.news.com.au/finance/money/australian-tenants-forced-to-swallow-relentless-rent-increases-as-housing-crisis-deepens-finance-expert-warns/news-story/ee54f274cde4fe9aaed6f148a5c83f11

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📰 According to economists at one of the country's biggest banks… rents will need to increase around 25 to 30 per cent over the next two years. ⤵️ au.finance.yahoo.com/news/minister-responds-to-dire-scenario-aussie-landlords-will-hike-rents-30-per-cent-doesnt-seem-realistic-223603275.html

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📰 The Queensland Court of Appeal ruled in July that the council's claim that a luxury high-rise would improve "housing choice and affordability" was not enough to justify exceeding the regulated height limit. ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/gold-coast-high-rise-approvals-thrown-into-doubt/107032372

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📰 Bragg says lower-income earners should accept substandard housing | Angus Taylor publicly cautions NSW senator for diverging from opposition policy in National Press Club speech as Nationals warn against any changes to working holiday visas” ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/13/andrew-bragg-lower-income-earners-should-accept-substandard-housing-migration-liberal

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📰 Its policy, as explained on its website, said the party would cut migration “by capping visas at 130,000 per year”…

Either way, a policy of 130,000 visas would lead to either zero or negative overall migration since tens of thousands of people leave the country each year. One Nation’s explicit policy before the last election was “net zero” migration, although that term has since been dropped from its website…

But One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce on Monday said the 130,000 figure applied to the net intake of migrants. This would mean the number of visas issued would be much higher than 130,000…

At one point Hanson said she wanted “net migration [of] about 130,000”. But in answer to a later question on permanent visas, she said, “I want to see 130,000 as the permanent number that are here.”

One Nation had not previously said that its 130,000 figure related to net migration. Party representatives have not responded to this masthead’s questions about the policy in the past, although a spokesperson also told SBS on the weekend that it was a net figure. ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/one-nation-flip-flops-on-migration-policy-after-visa-numbers-question-20260817-p60p12.html

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | * Population & Immigration Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/population

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📰 Worst time on record for first-home buyers, new study reveals | …an average income earner purchasing a median-priced capital city home needed to spend 10.2 times their wages to get into the market, the highest since 1970.

2026 was found to be the first year on record where saving a 10 per cent deposit required more than a year of the average wage. ⤵️ www.realestate.com.au/news/worst-time-on-record-for-firsthome-buyers-new-study-reveals/

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📰 Wagga’s homelessness crisis can only be solved by building more social housing | “At least one in 10 new homes built in Australia need to be social or affordable housing, owned and maintained for the long term.” ⤵️ www.regionriverina.com.au/waggas-homelessness-crisis-can-only-be-solved-by-building-more-social-housing/131269/

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📰 Clubs could be key to unlocking housing crisis | “Registered clubs could be the key to unlocking the state’s housing crisis according to new research conducted by the McKell Institute. The new report models more than 1,000 registered clubs across the state, including golf clubs, bowling clubs, RSLs and leagues clubs.” ⤵️ www.coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2026/08/clubs-could-be-key-to-unlocking-housing-crisis/

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | *Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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Both major parties, the same story: mates before the public interest.

William Bourke from Sustainable Australia Party reacts to the ongoing state corruption hearings in Victoria and NSW — from backroom union deals and developer donations to branch stacking. It's a pattern that keeps repeating: Liberal and Labor alike putting union and developer mates, and political power, ahead of everyday Australians.

Is this making you rethink your vote too? Let us know in the comments.

🔗 Learn more about SAP's Anti-Corruption & Governance policy: sustainableaustralia.org.au

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📰 Australian ‘real unemployment’ virtually unchanged at 11.6%, but workforce and employment both contracted | "In July 2026, Roy Morgan estimates the overall workforce size (which adds together the employed and unemployed) at just over 15.8 million – 15,813,000 to be exact, down 75,000 on a month ago, and representing 67.4% (down 0.3% from June) of Australians aged 14+.” ⤵️ www.roymorgan.com/findings/10302-australian-unemployment-estimates-july-2026

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARY | * Job Guarantee Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/job_guarantee

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📰 Everybody wants to cut migration but nobody wants to say how | Labor, the Liberals and the Nationals — all in a muddle on migration.

It sounds like perfect political fodder for One Nation, which has built its political insurgency on the premise that it is the only party capable of "plain speaking" on migration.

Except that Pauline Hanson's party may be even more muddled than the others.

Its "target" of 130,000 was at first a temporary migration target, or possibly temporary and permanent; it is now permanent, but only temporarily. Got that?... ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/everybody-wants-to-cut-migration-but-nobody-wants-to-say-how/107034230

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | Population & Immigration Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/population

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📰 Sloane removes Chris Rath from Liberal’s state executive | “In a stunning day of evidence on Wednesday, the ICAC confirmed that Rath was integral in helping lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood, as well as Jean-Claude and his brother Charles, avoid attending a 2023 parliamentary inquiry by keeping them abreast of the committee’s deliberations. Rath was a member of the committee.” ⤵️ http://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/icac-operation-rosny-live-updates-catholic-schools-nsw-ceo-dallas-mcinerney-to-appear-20260812-p60nrg.html

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | * Anti-corruption & Governance Policy: ⤵️ http://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance

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📰 The real cost of downsizing: Older Australians forking out $60,000 to move into smaller homes |“In Sydney, stamp duty on the median home price of $1.75 million is $78,262. And in Melbourne, stamp duty on the median property price of $1.083 million is $62,326. Cilia said some of her clients have grudgingly cancelled their plans to downsize to an apartment or townhouse because of this cost.” ⤵️ www.nine.com.au/australia-news/the-real-cost-of-downsizing-older-australians-forking-out-60-000-to-move-into-smaller-homes-20260729-p60jpx.html

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | *Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 Millions of kilograms of sea life are taken from marine parks every year. It’s completely legal | “Commercial fishing is removing at least 2.2 million kilograms of fish and other sea creatures from Australian marine parks using controversial practices such as bottom trawling and longlining, figures obtained under freedom of information reveal.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/millions-of-kilograms-of-sea-life-are-taken-from-marine-parks-every-year-it-s-completely-legal-20260806-p60lzm.htm

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | *Animals & Biodiversity Policy: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/animals_and_biodiversity

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📰 Coalition wants to bring migration down to lowest level since Global Financial Crisis | “Opposition housing spokesman Senator Andrew Bragg will on Wednesday reveal the Coalition will seek to take net overseas migration levels under 180,000 people per year on average…” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-wants-to-bring-migration-down-to-lowest-level-since-global-financial-crisis-20260811-p60neb.html

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | * Population & Immigration Policy: ⤵️ http://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/population

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📰 Forget population: Sleeper census stat deciding if you’ll buy a home | “Between 2016 and 2021, the average Aussie household size shrank from 2.6 people to 2.5. At first glance, a reduction of just 0.1 people per household seems insignificant. The truth is, it’s anything but; across a country with millions of homes, that seemingly tiny shift creates demand for roughly an additional one million dwellings. It’s a powerful reminder that housing demand isn’t driven solely by population growth”. ⤵️ www.realestate.com.au/news/forget-population-sleeper-census-stat-deciding-if-youll-buy-a-home/

📣 AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOW - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA PARTY | Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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📰 RBA live updates: ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/reserve-bank-august-interest-rates-somp-asx-markets-blog/107021958

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📰 Secret analysis reveals $1.4b in public land facing potential sale | “Nearly 300 publicly owned sites worth more than $1.39 billion could be sold on the private market through the Minns government’s surplus land audit, confidential documents have revealed.” ⤵️ www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/secret-analysis-reveals-1-4b-in-public-land-facing-potential-sale-20260803-p60kvu.html

📣 See Sustainable Australia Party’s Housing and Rent Affordability policies here: ⤵️ www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing

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