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MEDIA RELEASES: 5 October 2026

Western Australia’s nation-leading population growth threatens water security

Rainwater runoff into Perth’s dams has become almost immaterial, forcing increased reliance on energy intensive desalinated water and ongoing over-pumping of ever deeper aquifers In 2024-25 Perth’s Integrated Water Supply Scheme (IWSS) supplied a total of 337 billion litres of water to customers. After subtracting summer evaporation losses, a desperately dry 2026 autumn and winter

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MEDIA RELEASES: 25 September 2026

New report – Global unmet need for contraception is still increasing ahead of World Contraception Day.

On the UN-supported World Contraception Day, coming up on September 26, a new report from Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) details how global family planning programs have been deprioritised and had funding slashed, even as global population continues to increase. The new report, Reproductive rights: an unfinished project and an ecological imperative, argues that without a

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DISCUSSION PAPERS: 23 September 2026

Reproductive rights: an unfinished project and an ecological imperative

Reproductive-Rights-Discussion-Paper-22Sept2026.pdf By Jane O’Sullivan and Sandra Kanck Since the 1960s, modern contraception has brought a revolutionary advance in women’s bodily autonomy and their freedom to shape their own lives. Simultaneously, it was a powerful tool for reducing poverty and enabling economic development in low-income countries. Those countries that embraced this synergy through well-executed voluntary family

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MEDIA RELEASES: 22 September 2026

Terrifying projections of environmentally destructive population expansion of 39 million people for Australia

Each population projection since Australia’s first Intergenerational Report in 2002 has significantly under called the outcome. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has no confidence that the latest effort will alter that track record. The report projects expansion of 11 million by 2065, lifting population to 39 million people. SPA says such an outcome would be disastrous

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MEDIA RELEASES: 17 September 2026

New population data proves Australia is growing for broke.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals that Australia’s population expanded by 392,700 in the year to 30 March 2026, 292,100 of which from net oversees migration, lifting population towards 28 million, which was passed in early June 2026. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) observes that Australia’s infrastructure and natural environment remain under severe, worsening pressure

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VIDEOS: 1 September 2026

Climate Change: What you Aren’t Being Told – presented by Jane O’Sullivan

This presentation from Dr. Jane O’Sullivan was record for the Sustainable Population Australia SA/NT branch event “Climate Change: What you aren’t being told” as part of the Adelaide Climate Action Week. It was hosted at The Minor Works Community Centre on 27 July, 2026. Find out more about Dr. Jane O’Sulivan: https://population.org.au/jane-osullivan/ Link to the

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NEWSLETTERS: 12 August 2026

SPA newsletter 164 – August 2026

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of the SPA Newsletter. This edition explores the choices shaping Australia’s future, from housing, infrastructure and population planning to environmental protection and quality of life. It celebrates more than 20,000 Australians signing SPA’s Say NO to a Big Australia Position Statement, examines the value of the 2026 Census for

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NEWS: 4 August 2026

Waterways Visioning Tour 26th of July

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Waterways Visioning Tour A Sustainable Population Australia Event Peaks to Points Festival https://www.peakstopoints.com.au/ Oxley Creek Catchment Association   On Sunday the 26th of July, SPA Queensland Secretary, Simon Cole, led a guided walking tour along buried waterways in his neighbou neighbourhood, Coopers Plains. The event, part of the local Oxley Creek Catchment Association’s biennial Peaks

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MEDIA RELEASES: 30 July 2026

Earth Overshoot Day 2026: our ecological credit card is maxed out

The 30th of July 2026 is Earth Overshoot Day: the exact date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in this entire calendar year. For Australia, the overshoot date was even earlier, on 29 March, indicating how much our affluent lifestyle (including fossil fuel use) is draining global

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MEDIA RELEASES: 27 July 2026

20,000 Australians say NO to a Big Australia ahead of Federal election

Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof Anne Poelina have joined more than twenty thousand Australians in signing Sustainable Population Australia’s (SPA) position statement . The SPA position calls for a stabilised Australian population, maintained safely within ecological limits. The position statement states: “we take the position that there is a fundamental conflict between

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