Media Releases
Media release: ignoring the major while emphasising the minor: population increase in pacific nations.
Sustainable Population Australia Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Em Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 3851 Weston Creek, ACT, 2611 Ph (02) 6288 6810 9th December 2015: for immediate release The emphasis which the Federal Government is placing on sea level […]
Media release: thank you Kelvin Thomson MP!
Sustainable Population Australia Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Em Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 3851 Weston Creek, ACT, 2611 10 November 2015 News that Kelvin Thomson will not recontest his Victorian seat of Wills at the next federal […]
Media release: world contraception day (september 26, 2015)
Sustainable Population Australia Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Em Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 3851 Weston Creek, ACT, 2611 Ph (02) 6288 6810 25 September 2015: for immediate release Media release for World Contraception Day With tomorrow being World […]
Media release: UN population projections a call to action
Sustainable Population Australia PO Box 3851 Weston Creek, ACT, 2611 Ph (02) 6288 6810 31 July 2015: Media release: for immediate release Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is calling on the Australian government to wake up from its slumber following the release of the latest UN population projections on July 29. SPA President, Sandra Kanck, says […]
Media release: world population day (11 July 2015)
Sustainable Population Australia Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Em Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White, Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 3851 Weston Creek, ACT, 2611 Ph (02) 6288 6810 10 July 2015: for immediate release Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is calling on Australian charities and […]
Pope’s encyclical misses the main game: overpopulation
The release of the Pope’s encyclical “Praised Be” is very welcome because it recognises the clear and present danger to the earth’s life-support systems, especially through anthropogenic climate change. But environment NGO, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says the encyclical misses a major part of the problem – the human population explosion. SPA national president, Sandra […]
Population pressure on the environment will lead to catastrophe
Media release: Earth Day – 21st April, 2015: for immediate release Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) urges people everywhere to mark Earth Day on April 22 by focusing on the role that overpopulation plays in environmental degradation. SPA national president Sandra Kanck says the evidence is overwhelming that the world’s natural environment is trending towards a catastrophe […]
Drop in growth rate welcome – SPA
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) welcomes the drop in the population growth rate as reported by the Australian Bureaus of Statistics (ABS) on Friday. The growth rate in the year to 30 June 2014 was 1.6 per cent, or an increase of 364,900 over the previous year. The growth rate has declined slowly from over 2% […]
Give all adolescent girls sex education and information about contraception
Media release for International Day of the Girl Child (October 11) Adolescent girls everywhere should have age appropriate sex education and ready access to contraception should they need it. October 11 is the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2014 theme is “Empowering adolescent girls: Ending the cycle of violence”. According to Sustainable […]
MR: universal access to contraception critical for stabilising population
If we are to avoid having 12 billion people on the planet by the end of the century, we must make contraception readily available to all couples. On 18 September 2014, an important paper was published in the journal Science from the United Nations’ Population Division, saying that world population is unlikely to stabilise this […]