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12 February 2025

Why International Condom Day will help endangered species

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that human population growth remains the root cause of the world’s most pressing environmental threats. International Condom Day,  February 13,  provides a platform from which to highlight that the addition of 6 billion people to Earth’s human population since 1924 is now threatening the web of life on our …

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13 December 2024

Australia still at ‘third world’ rates of population growth

Continuation of a third-world pace of population growth, at 2.1% pa, puts further pressure on Australia’s housing, infrastructure and fragile environment, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national President Peter Strachan was responding to today’s ABS population figures that revealed Australia grew by 552,000 in the year to 30 June 2024, more than 80 per …

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25 November 2024

Population growth weakening Australia’s water security: new report

  Water demand due to population growth is outstripping improvements in Australians’ efficiency of household water use, according to new research commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) in a report titled Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability. “Since 2010, per person water use in the household sector has remained …

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20 November 2024

No surprise that report finds half Australians think immigration too high

The finding by the Scanlon Foundation that nearly half Australians (49%) think immigration is too high should come as no surprise, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The 2024 report Mapping Australia’s Cohesion found there is growing belief that immigration is too high and is strongly related to economic and housing issues rather than attitudes …

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4 November 2024

Immigration an election issue as prominent Australians join the call to stabilise Australia’s population

  Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over seventeen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) National President, Peter Strachan said,“ Australians are angry about the impact of rapid population growth on their lives and are frustrated that …

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18 October 2024

Australia’s low fertility is all good news

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed news that Australia’s fertility has fallen to 1.5 children per woman, dismissing media claims it represents an economic crisis.”. Australian National University demographer Liz Allen said on ABC radio, “Once we hit this figure, we are basically staring down the barrel of no return.” SPA national president Peter …

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16 October 2024

Hunger and poverty resurgent as world population continues to climb

  Media release (World Food Day 16/10 and International Poverty Eradication Day 17/10) Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says the first two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ‘No Poverty’ and ‘Zero Hunger’ – both by 2030 – cannot be achieved while world population continues an inexorable climb. SPA national president Peter Strachan says 692 million people …

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30 September 2024

Sustainable Population Australia welcomes Professor Anne Poelina as Patron

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed Professor Anne Poelina, a renowned First Australian academic who is very active on social equality issues, as the new patron. Prof Poelina joins respected names, including Dr Katharine Betts, Dr Paul Collins, and Professors Tim Flannery, the Hon Bob Carr, and Ian Lowe, as a patron of SPA. …

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25 September 2024

World Contraception Day reminds us that access to contraception is a human right

  To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, Sustainable Population Australia says access to contraception is a human right, yet 257 million women globally are trying to avoid pregnancy without access to any form of modern contraception. This makes them vulnerable to unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and preventable maternal death. SPA national president Peter …

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23 September 2024

Housing disaster will extend for years if population growth ignored

  Without a mature discussion on population growth, the housing crisis will extend for years to come, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA National president Peter Strachan says there is deep denial within the government that population is the main factor driving housing demand. “The government’s focus is on supply while the demand side …

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