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MEDIA RELEASES: 22 April 2025

Immigration core Federal Election Issue as 19,000 Australians call to end Big Australia

Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over nineteen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Michael Bayliss, Communications Manager for Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says “the SPA position statement has attracted thousands of signatures in the lead up to the Federal Election.  […]

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NEWS: 29 March 2025

SPA In The Media March 2025

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  SPA has been forging positive relationships with the media,  striking particularly hot on talk back and community radio. Our National President,  Peter Strachan has been interviewed several times to discuss Australia’s population crisis in recent weeks.  These include: 2SM Ron Williams for Breakfast 28/03/25 (from 1:16)  https://2sm.com.au/podcasts/ron-wilson-for-breakfast/ 2GB 25/03/25 “Australia’s Population Growth Slows—But Is

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MEDIA RELEASES: 27 March 2025

Housing crisis not solved until demand is reduced – Budget 2025

  Media release in response to 2025 Budget. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says that Australia’s housing crisis is entirely due to rapidly rising demand, driven for most part, by record levels of population growth, including 1.6 million over the three years to 30 September 2024 and 8.7 million, or 45 per cent, since 2000. SPA

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MEDIA RELEASES: 21 March 2025

Australia’s population growth on a disastrous trajectory

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) notes that Australian Bureau of Statistics’ population report shows a fall in the population growth rate from 2.54 percent to 1.8 percent per annum over the year to 30 September 2024, but notes it is still well above the OECD average (0.523% in 2023). SPA national president Peter Strachan says

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MEDIA RELEASES: 20 March 2025

Growing populations to face a bleak future as glaciers melt

  In the lead-up to World Water Day (March 22), the theme of which is ‘Glacier Preservation’, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) warns that people dependent on glacial meltwater for crops will face even worse food insecurity as population numbers continue to grow. SPA National President Peter Strachan says that billions of people as well as

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EVENTS: 15 March 2025

Big, Thirsty Australia free talk on Water Security and the Environment

You are invited to a talk  on “Big, Thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability” – based on Sustainable Population Australia’s Discussion Paper of the same name.  This event is hosted by the South Australian and Northern Territory branch of Sustainable Population Australia GET YOUR TICKETS HERE   Authors Jonathan Sobels

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MEDIA RELEASES: 7 March 2025

Australia must step into the breach left by Trump’s assault on women

Marking International Women’s Day (IWD), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called on Australia and other rich countries to step into the breach left by US President Trump’s massive cuts to international aid (USAID), to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and other organisations aimed at enhancing women’s rights and health.

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MEDIA RELEASES: 23 February 2025

NSW abortion reform bill deserves widespread support: SPA

  The NSW branch of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says a Bill introduced to NSW Parliament by Greens Dr Amanda Cohen to remove remaining barriers to abortion deserves the support of all parties. SPA NSW president Jenny Goldie says that, while abortion was decriminalised five years ago, women are still being denied access, particularly in

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