Some global media is taking note of the dubious milestone of 7 Billion people on earth such as the UK's Guardian. It has published an article by Roger Martin, chair of SPA's UK counterpart, Population Matters. We don't currently see any major Australian newspapers publishing articles similar to this. Article Publication: The Guardian, UK Article
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Here are 3 keynote talks from SPA’s 2011 AGM, held in Perth on the 3rd of April.
The general topic was General topic was: The Resource Boom: Benefit or Burden?
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SPA is happy to announce its new website… and you’re looking at it right now!
This new site is one part of a large IT upgrade that SPA is undertaking over several months which will include new membership databases and online interactions with members. Hopefully this will lead to better internet communication and new opportunities to transmit our important message about population to the Australian public.
This new site will have some teething problems in late September so please bear with us as we work to fix them. If you have urgent issues with the site, please contact the webmaster via the Contact page. Just a note: no content has been lost so if your favourite article isn’t appearing just yet, it’s not gone forever but just archived for the moment!
Once there was a village with 10 families who shared a 1000 litre waste bin between them. This meant they could each put in 100 litres of waste before the bin was full. The waste collection truck would come each month and swap the bin with another 1000 litre bin. However one day the waste
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“One day a politician will be brave enough to speak the obvious but forbidden truth: that on a finite planet we cannot continue to exponentially increase our consumption of natural resources, nor survive as a civilisation if we keep adding billions more people to our already swelling planet. Until then, I fear we are creating
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Professor Peter Newman Director, Sustainability Policy Unit Department of the Premier 15th Floor, 197 St Georges Tce Perth WA 6000 6 March 2002 Dear Professor Newman FOCUS ON THE FUTURE: Opportunities for Sustainability in Western Australia Thank you for your invitation to comment on the FOCUS ON THE FUTURE: Opportunities for
(pdf – 31Kb) – Submission by SPA National Office to the Standing Committee on Ageing, Dec 2002
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11 March 2009Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA) warmly congratulates the ForeignMinister, Stephen Smith, on his decision today to lift Australia’s version of the ‘globalgag rule’.The gag rule was a guideline that prevented Australian overseas aid money going toany non-government organisation that undertook or even advised on abortion,including in countries where abortion was legal. It was
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Sustainable Population Australia MEDIA RELEASE 18th August, 2009 KELVIN THOMSON JOINS POPULATION ROLL OF HONOUR Kelvin Thomson’s brilliant speech on population in Federal Parliament last night allows him to be placed on an Australian honour roll of politicians who understand the detrimental impacts of population growth, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc
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Some submissions to the MDBA by individual SPA members: Dear MDBA, I am adamant in my conviction that we must return greater flows of water to the MDB rivers and wetlands in accordance with the plan. The science has been done, checked and rechecked. There is no point revisiting the science in the hope
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