Media Releases
Intergenerational Report designed to quell public objection to population growth
A media storm around the new Intergenerational Report has focused on massive increases in the numbers of elderly and costs of aged care in the next 40 years. This is scaremongering intended to quell resistance to rapid population growth, according to environmental group Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). “The timing of this report is revealing,” …
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You can’t fix housing supply by escalating housing demand
According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ‘housing supply and affordability’ will be the key priority when the National Cabinet meets in Brisbane on 16 August. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), however, to solve the housing crisis, government must deal with housing demand and not just supply. SPA National President Jenny Goldie notes that …
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Living on borrowed time: Earth Overshoot Day on 2 August means the rest of the year is in overshoot
Tomorrow, 2 August, is Earth Overshoot Day for this year, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year is estimated to exceed Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources. By the end of the year, we will have used 1.7 times the sustainable resource limit. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), that’s bad enough, but Australia’s Overshoot …
Resolve survey strongly confirms that majority of Australians think immigration too high
The latest Resolve Strategic public opinion survey on views about the level of migrant intake proves yet again that a large majority of Australians think our immigration levels and population growth are too high. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says it reinforces findings from previous surveys over several years and using a variety of sampling …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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