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The medicine is killing the patient – extreme housing shortage signals urgent need to reduce demand by stopping population growth.
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says that high levels of immigration experienced since 2005 increases rental costs and lowers vacancy rates. Government’s housing crisis fixes make the housing crisis worse by increasing demand through high levels of overseas migration and home buying support, that increases demand without increasing supply. Recent data showing national housing vacancy rates […]
Skill shortages in 691 occupations are an embarrassing myth for Australia.
Australia must match skilled immigration visa allocations with actual job offers, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). No job – no visa. An embarrassing, government skilled migration jobs list, hilariously includes jobs for which there are no noted vacancies, such as: blacksmith, acupuncturist, actor, singer and archaeologist and occupations that are arguably, low skill, like: […]
Australia’s biodiversity report card leaves out destructive population expansion
No mention is made of the undeniable impact of Australia’s population growth on the nation’s declining biodiversity in the government’s first report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity (KMGBF)’s monitoring framework appears to be a process to monitor decline rather than repair biodiversity loss. Australia’s population expanded by […]
ABS data shows rising immigration trend
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that Australia’s population expanded by 423,595 in the 12 months to September 2025, an increase from 419,368 in the year to June ‘24. While natural increase has fallen, immigration numbers are on the rise. Over the 4 years to September 2025 Australia’s estimated resident population expanded by 2.02 million, […]
Death of Paul R Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, mourned by Sustainable Population Australia
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is mourning the death of Paul Ehrlich, aged 93, co-author with his wife Anne of the 1968 seminal book The Population Bomb. Dr Paul R Ehrlich was former Professor Emeritus of Population Studies at Stanford University’s Department of Biology. Ehrlich was a panellist on the ABC program ‘QandA’ in 2015, advocating on behalf […]
It’s the numbers, stupid! — Sustainable Population Australia rejects race-based immigration rhetoric
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has rejected any suggestion that immigrants should be judged by race, religion or cultural background, stating that Australia’s population challenges are driven by scale, not identity. SPA argues that rapid population expansion — from any source — is placing pressure on: Housing affordability and availability Infrastructure funding and service delivery Environmental […]
Population growth drives up inflation and interest rates
The Reserve Bank has increased the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.85 per cent, in its first rate rise in more than two years. The Bank is responding to inflation, which picked up materially in the second half of 2025. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that Australia’s rapid increase in population growth […]
Global Water Bankruptcy Only Solved by Stabilising Population: SPA
The Global Water Bankruptcy report, published on Jan. 20, 2026, indicated that global human demand for freshwater has exceeded the volume that nature can reliably replace, resulting in worldwide water insecurity for billions of people. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that population growth drives expanding water demand. Australia is also at risk of chronic water shortages […]
Australia’s total population well above ABS data
Australia’s population could be a million more than estimated, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), taking Australia’s current population to over 29 million. By failing to recognise temporary visitors in total population figures, government agencies may be systematically under-provisioning for the number of actual residents in Australia. The Usual Residence definition that underpins the […]
ABS data demonstrates that Federal Government does not have a population plan
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that Australia’s Population growth in the year to June 2025 quarter was 420,000, up from 418,705 in the 12 months to March 2025. From September 2021 to June 2025 Australia’s estimated resident population has expanded by 1.91 million, of which 78.2 per cent or 1.49 million resulted […]