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5 October 2018

SPA takes on liz allen, Australia’s extinction crisis, and revamps our popforum

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  President message: e-news, Oct 012018   SPA’s activism on your behalf continues with our submission to the Senate Environment Committee’s inquiry into ‘Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis’. You can read it here: https://population.org.au/articles/2018-09-18/spas-submission-senate-environment-committees-inquiry-australias-extinction. In April communication within SPA’s Yahoo groups became all but impossible, and as a consequence 80 or so members who are part

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28 July 2018

Growth squeezes species

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In 2010, The Australian Conservation Foundation nominated human population growth as a key threat to biodiversity in Australia.   Their submission outlines areas where the pressure is greatest. For example: In 2005, 60% of Australia’s coastal councils had an annual population growth rate greater than 3%, or at least twice the national average.   Now

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8 March 2017

Silent auction of paintings 2017

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PLEASE NOTE: The Auction has closed For the second time, Kimberley artist and SPA member, Jackie Ellis has generously donated paintings to SPA. The 2 works are now to be auctioned and are described below. Both were created to raise awareness about the damaging effects of all too frequent fires in the Kimberley. For more

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8 December 2016

Regional development conference 2016

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In September VicTas Branch President, Michael Bayliss, represented SPA as a speaker. the Regional Development Conference in Canberra.  The presentation was entitled: ‘Should Regional Australia Absorb Our Population Growth?’  Given the context that the Victorian State Government is pushing to relocate the state’s population growth to the regions,  and much of the conference was about

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30 August 2016

Overloading Australia

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 This page is intended for use by Mark O’Connor to update the statistics contained in the Book Overloading Australia: How Governments and the Media dither and deny on population”.   It can also be used for errata or to provide a page of additional material.

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7 August 2016

Op-ed for earth overshoot day

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AUGUST 8, sadly, is Earth Overshoot Day for 2016.
I say ‘sadly’ because this annual milestone is falling on an earlier day each year, and that is a bad thing.
Overshoot is a term that ecologists use to describe the situation where people consume more than the Earth can provide on an ongoing basis.
Once we have consumed beyond this point we are effectively eating into our resource reserves, much like a farmer who takes out more water from a dam or groundwater table than the rains can replace.
We can do this for a while, but eventually the dam runs dry.

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31 December 2015

Survey results: most Australians don’t want population growth

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        Since 2007 Australia has experienced unprecedented population growth consisting both of natural increase and immigration. Immigration, however, accounts for the greater part of this growth, and is set to continue. If the current intake is maintained it will take the country from its present population of just under 24 million to over

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14 May 2015

“Population and ageing: disaster or triumph?”

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Following the SPA AGM held in Adelaide on the 7th March this year (2015) the organisers ‘treated’ the public and the assembled members to a symposium titled “Population and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph?” Three speakers, Dr Katharine Betts, Dr. Jane O’Sullivan and Associate Professor Philip Lawn delivered powerful presentations examining the current debate on population aging.

The Powerpoint presentations accompanying each talk have been made available by each speaker and are attached here as PDF’s and links ae provided to the video presentations of each. You are encourged to download for use in personal research.

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