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MEDIA RELEASES: 26 August 2024

Australia is Overpopulated and has Breached its Ecological Limits

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) calls for sensible public policy that takes heed of the driest continent’s ecological limits to growth, as demonstrated by a record of steady environmental decline over the past 100 years. Capping annual net migration below 70,000 to ensure Australia’s population remains below 30 million, would limit further degradation. SPA’s President,

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NEWSLETTERS: 1 August 2024

SPA newsletter 156 – August 2024

Dear SPA supporters In this issue of the SPA newsletter you will find:  a front page editorial on Earth Overshoot Day three Opinion articles, two book reviews, the Communication managers’ update a “meet our members” interview featuring national secretary Sandra Kanck branch reports a piece on long-acting contraceptives two obituaries, notice about the fantastic 2025

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MEDIA RELEASES: 1 August 2024

SPA National President responds to Earth Overshoot Day on August 01st

  Globally, humans are using resources much faster than Planet Earth can replace them and the situation is much worse in Australia. Earth Overshoot Day is the day on which the Earth’s resources for that year have been expended and after that day we are eating into our children’s future. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) advises

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MEDIA RELEASES: 18 July 2024

NSW refuses to accept that population is key driver in biodiversity loss

Population size and growth are the key drivers in NSW biodiversity decline and continues to be ignored by those responsible for the protection of our environment, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national president Peter Strachan says the NSW Environment Minister, Penny Sharpe, should pay heed to the 2022-23 NSW State of Environment report

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NEWS: 11 July 2024

Jane O’Sullivan: UN World Population Day 2024 focuses on anything but world population

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  The below is from SPA’s own Jane O’Sullivan,  writing for  The Overpopulation Project.  We encourage you to read the article “UN World Population Day 2024 focuses on anything but world population”  at TOP and leave a comment of support.   This year for World Population Day, the United Nations champions data collection, because ‘everyone

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NEWS: 10 July 2024

World Population Day 2024 examined on the Post-Growth Australia Podcast

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  Welcome to the SPA supported Post-Growth Australia Podcast “World Population Day 2024” special.  PGAP co-hosts Mark Allen and Michael Bayliss share their recent musings on sustainable population. World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year. It seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. Mark’s article “A Holistic Activism Approach

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MEDIA RELEASES: 10 July 2024

World Population Day: a population may survive but not thrive if it grows rapidly

Our National President,  Peter Strachan was interviewed accross numerous Australian radio programs for World Population Day,  including 2GB with Michael McLaren which may be listened to HERE As World Population Day approaches on July 11, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says a population may survive but not thrive if it grows rapidly. SPA national president Peter

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NEWS: 3 July 2024

Recent Media Exposure for SPA

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  Sustainable Population Australia has enjoyed some encouraging media exposure in response to our recent media release “Thousands of Australians call for an end to rapid population growth”. It was picked up at least half a dozen times in the media,  including a 2GB interview with our National President Peter Stracham,  Channel 7 TV News

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MEDIA RELEASES: 14 June 2024

It’s the population growth – stupid! SPA Responds to ABS data

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) congratulates Australians for making a sensible and sustainable choice to have smaller families. Despite the nation’s total population rising by 8.2 million since 2000, The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that 15,900 fewer babies were born in the year to December 2023 than in the previous year, limiting natural population

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MEDIA RELEASES: 11 June 2024

Thousands of Australians call for an end to rapid population growth

  Many well-known and respected names such as Dick Smith AO, economist Leith van Onselen and Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, have joined over twelve thousand Australians to sign a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) National President, Peter Strachan, said the Position Statement went public in the last

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