Media Releases
Climate change threatens food security: World Population Day
We cannot feed 10 billion when climate change threatens food security: SPA Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called for an end to global population growth to avert widespread suffering from hunger. Current world population stands at 8.046 billion and is expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 (UN median projections), peak at […]
Qualifications should be recognised before skilled visas are issued
Too many migrants are finding themselves stranded unable to get jobs they are led to believe they are qualified for in Australia. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), they shouldn’t have been given skilled migrant visas in the first place. According to a recent report, only a third of permanent arrivals in Australia have […]
Refugees dumped in favour of massive immigration intake
On the eve of World Refugee Day (June 20), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has criticised the Albanese Government for failing to deliver on its promise to expand the humanitarian intake to 27,000. In the recent budget, the government kept Australia in a holding pattern of 13,750 places. According to SPA, refugees were dumped in […]
Australia’s population growth rate of nearly half a million ‘too high’
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) considers Australia’s population growth rate in 2022 too high and called on the federal government to put a brake on immigration. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest population figures today showing Australia’s population grew by nearly half a million (496,800 or 1.9%) in the year ending 31 […]
50th anniversary of World Environment Day and it’s been mainly downhill since
MEDIA RELEASE FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 5 JUNE 2023 Monday 5 June marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day. It’s been mainly downhill for the environment ever since thanks to the demands of an ever-growing human population, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The first celebration of World Environment Day, under the slogan “Only One […]
Australia-India Migration Agreement confirms Albanese’s ‘Excessively Big Australia’
The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement reconfirms that Australian Prime Minister Albanese stands for an ‘Excessively Big Australia’, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Voters are coming off third best. Last week, Prime Minister Albanese and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi signed the Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement, which aims to make it easier for […]
Mass migration isn’t good for Australia, and it’s never “properly planned and well managed”
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has questioned the claim by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) that ‘two thirds of Australians believe that properly planned and well managed migration is good for Australia’. BCA has asked a loaded question, to get the answer they wanted. Their result is directly contradicted by the more reliable Australia […]
‘Build Back Biodiversity’ by ending population growth – World Biodiversity Day
If we want to ‘Build Back Biodiversity,’ the theme of World Biodiversity Day on 22 May, we need to end human population growth, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) lists 22 actions to help protect biodiversity, including no. 14: “Change one habit that is negative […]
Treasury is gaslighting the Australian people on population
Media Release The Australian people, and most journalists, are being gaslighted by the Treasury budget papers’ superficial analysis of Australia’s immigration and population growth. That this is being let go to the keeper by virtually all media commentary is extraordinary, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national president Ms Jenny Goldie says the most […]
Only much lower migration will improve migration outcomes: SPA
The Migration System Review will not fix the problems of migrant worker exploitation, visa wait times nor skills shortages, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The review report, led by former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, does not explicitly discuss the scale of the migration program. But scale is the most important factor affecting outcomes, according […]