Sustainable Australia Party
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Evidence
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Introduce a tax on the excess profits of large corporations (e.g. on banks, gas companies)
Type: Website
Summary: The Sustainable Australia Party wants big mining companies profiting from resources like iron ore and coal to pay more tax. They plan to introduce a Resource Super Profit Tax, but only after doing a full review of what resources we have and how fast they’re running out. They also want to make the tax system fairer by increasing taxes on very high incomes and super profits and stop big multinational companies from avoiding tax by banning tax deductions for money paid to their own companies overseas, as well as creating a special 50% tax on profits sent overseas to dodge Australian tax (called a “Google Tax”).
Introduce short-term price caps (e.g. on rent and gas prices)
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being unsupportive of price caps, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party policies on housing, natural gas, etc focus on ensuring that prices rapidly stabilise and or fall without the need for short term price caps, which are in themselves unsustainable. For example, with the housing affordability crisis, we would greatly reduce demand for housing, which would lower (not just cap!) rents. Similarly, our Gas Policy includes significant domestic gas reservation for domestic use, which would reduce prices and and leave no need for a short-term unsustainable cap.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/housing www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/energy
Support a significant reduction of individuals employed by the public service
Type: Website / Statement
The Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being unsupportive of reducing the number of public service employees, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports a strong and independent public service and public sector, and an end to ideologically-driven appointments, outsourcing and asset sales.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/privatisation_and_public_assets
Prevent big companies from controlling the market and limiting consumer choice (e.g. supermarkets)
Type: Website / StatementSummary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of reforming regulations, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports increased competition where appropriate and help prevent excessive corporate market power and abuse, including: Greater resources and powers for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to enforce truth in advertising laws, competition, de-monopolisation and divestment.”
Phase out tax concessions for property investors (e.g. negative gearing or capital gains tax discount)
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports removing the 50 per cent discount of capital gains tax on taxable Australian property (non-principal place of residence); and abolishing negative gearing on taxable Australian property.”
Incentivise state/territory government to increase renter rights and protections
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of renters rights and protections, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports reforming tenancy laws to offer greater renters’ rights including longer standard rental tenure, longer notice for eviction, greater ability to keep pets, greater ability to make minor renovations including picture hangers, removal of ‘no-fault’ termination from residential leases so that tenants have more security and stability. This will mean there will only be four situations in which a tenant can be removed from their home: Sale of the property, major renovations, failure to meet tenancy conditions including rent payments or owner wants to move in to their property. While Sustainable Australia Party have not mentioned the NRPA or NTS in our policies, they support the introduction of these bodies to help with renter rights.”
Increase investment in public and community housing
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of public and community housing, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports a minimum 10% affordable housing being integrated into new significant residential developments through a process of inclusionary zoning; and significantly increased investment in social housing, through both public and community housing, as a proportion of total housing development.”
Allow first home-buyers to access their super to help purchase their first home
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive first home-buyers using their super to help purchase their first home, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports allowing first-home buyers to access their super if other meaningful reform to house prices is taken, particularly phasing out negative gearing, capital gains tax concessions, slowing population growth. Otherwise the extra credit/funding for houses would simply push up prices further.”
Incentivise state/territory governments to increase housing supply
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being unsupportive of federal incentives for housing supply reforms, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party would end the housing crisis by addressing the root cause, primarily being hyper-demand. Although we suport greater incentives for the supply of public, social, and affordable housing, Australia already has a very high level of general housing supply, but the problem is that it cannot keep up with government-engineered hyper-demand.”
Help first-home buyers with shared equity programs that would allow participants to co-purchase a home with the government
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being unsupportive of shared equity programs, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party would end the housing crisis by addressing the root cause, primarily being hyper-demand. Again, the extra credit/funding for houses would simply push up prices further.”
Introduce energy bill rebates
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of energy rebates, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports affordable energy.”
Increase financial support for energy efficiency upgrades
Type: Website
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of increases in incentives, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will empower Australian consumers to choose and use distributed (non-centralised) energy systems including solar photovoltaic (PV), micro wind and ground source heat pumps, supported by battery storage.”
Increase funding for community batteries that increase access to solar
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of federal incentives for community batteries, stating: “Support further investment into the research and development of more environmentally friendly energy storage systems, including hydropower, hydrogen and batteries.”
Strengthen regulations to prevent price-gouging by energy companies
Type: Website
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of regulators having more power to prevent price-gouging, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports increased competition where appropriate and help[s] prevent excessive corporate market power and abuse, including: Greater resources and powers for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to enforce truth in advertising laws, competition, de-monopolisation and divestment.”
Make university free
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of wiping student debt and making university free, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will offer free and universal university and TAFE education for Australian citizens and abolish all current HECS/HELP debts for Australian citizens.”
Cut a portion of existing student debt
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of cutting student debt, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will offer free and universal university and TAFE education for Australian citizens and abolish all current HECS/HELP debts for Australian citizens.”
Support more fee-free TAFE places
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of fee-free TAFE places, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports better funding for TAFE and education more broadly.”
Increase funding for public schools
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive increasing federal funding toward the SRS, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will increase funding where needed.”
Increase funding for and access to childcare subsidies
Type: Website
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing funding for childcare subsidies, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports providing access to affordable and reliable childcare and early childhood education.”
Stop fossil fuel project approvals and expansions
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of strengthening environmental laws, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will strengthen environmental laws and supports no new coal mines or fracking for gas. We support a rapid transition to renewable energy.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/environment/
Accelerate the rollout of renewable energy projects
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of accelerating the transition to renewables, stating: “Sustainable Australia supports a target of Net Zero emissions by 2035 which would include a renewable energy target in line with this commitment.” They support reducing emissions by at least 75 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, ensuring that all high emitting countries meet the same or similar climate goals.
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/environment/
Strengthen policies that ensure Australia’s biggest polluters genuinely cut their emissions
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of strengthening policies to prioritise emissions reductions, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party recognises all consumers and companies must contribute to action on climate change. For example, place tariffs or bans on imports where any relevant carbon pollution has not been priced into the goods and services.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/environment/
Increase investment in preventative health programs
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of preventative health programs, stating: “Sustainable Party Australia will better promote preventative health care through healthier lifestyle choices, including: Education on appropriate food and beverage choices, particularly at primary and secondary schools; A national physical activity plan promoting and supporting regular exercise including accessible community-led sporting groups; A ban on junk and high sugar content food and beverage advertising to children during children’s television viewing hours; Proper government assessment of appropriate dietary requirements and intakes including sugar levels; An excise on products containing high levels of sugar, with the revenue raised from such a sugar excise to be directed to subsidising appropriate fresh fruit and vegetables, and funding public health awareness campaigns and anti-obesity health care; and Affordable access to primary health care.”
Make GP visits free or more affordable by increasing bulk billing incentives
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing bulk billing incentives, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports expanding support for bulk billing and expanding Medicare to include all basic dental services.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/health
Increase funding to train, attract, and retain more healthcare professionals, especially in regional areas
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of funding for healthcare professionals, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports better investment in medical and nursing training in urban, regional and rural areas as well as scientific research and cost-effective medical technology in order to bring down the cost of healthcare.”
Increase funding for dental and mental health
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive including dental in Medicare, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports expanding Medicare to include all basic dental services.”
Expand subsidies to make more prescription medicines cheaper
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of expanding PBS subsidies, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports expanding support for bulk billing and prescription medicines.”
Increase investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of investments in large scale clean energy, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports ongoing research and development into renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency initiatives and supports further investment into the research and development of more environmentally friendly energy storage systems, including hydropower, hydrogen and batteries.”
Require multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply, without supporting the approval of new gas projects
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of a gas reservation scheme, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will implement domestic energy reservation policies for relevant resources, including natural gas.”
Invest in nuclear power as a future energy source, while extending the life of coal power and increasing gas use in the interim
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive/unsupportive of nuclear, stating: “Sustainable Party Australia aspires towards a future without domestic nuclear power, whilst engaging in responsible management of Australian-generated low and intermediate-level medical etc radioactive waste. Whilst SAP is not ideologically opposed to nuclear, we believe if we slow population growth then stabilise Australia’s population size ASAP (i.e. the number of energy consumers) and reserve much more of our natural gas while transitioning to renewable energy, there will be no need for nuclear power plants and the major waste and other challenges they present.”
Improve access to government-held information about government policies and decisions
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive funding for FOI processes, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will make freedom of information (FOI) requests and processes more accessible.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance
Protect the ABC and SBS’s independence and funding
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of funding for public broadcasters, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports better funding for the ABC, particularly regional and rural services.”
Require all lobbyists that meet with politicians to be publicly disclosed
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of lobbying reforms, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will require more timely and transparent reporting of all political lobbying, donations and financial contributions (as determined by an independent federal corruption commission enquiry or similar process), but including the requirement for politicians to declare any time they spend with registered lobbyists and a register of issues raised with politicians by both lobbyists and the public; and Ban ex-politicians and senior staff in government departments from employment with registered lobbying organisations and other relevant vested interests (as determined by an independent federal corruption commission enquiry or similar process), for at least 4 years from the date of leaving office.”
Source: https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/anti_corruption_and_governance
Make public transport more frequent and reliable
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive public transport, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will prioritise the most ecologically sustainable and congestion-free public and private transport systems.”
Improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive bike and footpath development, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party will prioritise the most ecologically sustainable and congestion-free public and private transport systems. This includes, building better and safer bicycle networks and pedestrian infrastructure.”
Increase access and affordability of electric and low-emissions vehicles
Type: Website / Statement
Summary: Sustainable Australia Party responded to our survey as being supportive of strengthening the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, stating: “Sustainable Australia Party supports prioritising public transport over increased car use, as well [as] reducing car emissions.”
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