The UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has chosen 31 October as the day on which it estimates world population will reach 7 billion – just over 12 years since the Day of Six Billion, on 12 October 1999. UNFPA is planning a series of events publicise the milestone, including a social media campaign starting on
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined his Government’s plans to return UK immigration levels to “where they were in the 1980s and 90s”. In a keynote speech to Conservative Party members on 14 April, Mr Cameron said annual immigration would be reduced from “hundreds of thousands every year” to “the order of tens of
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BROADCASTER and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has questioned the ‘strange silence’ about population growth in public debate, and urged members of environmental organisations to discuss the subject openly and often. In a speech to the Royal Society of Arts in London on 10 March, hosted by its president, the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir David said there
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The Chairperson Murray-Darling Basin Authority [email protected] Dear Chair, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is a nationally-based environment group, and is the only environment group in Australia which campaigns on the need for an ecologically sustainable population. We congratulate the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) for its ...
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THE NATIONAL President of Sustainable Population Australia, Hon Sandra Kanck, has urged that Australia should cease growing its population as soon as possible, pending a check that the nation is living sustainably. In SPA’s submission to the Government’s process to develop a sustainable population strategy, Ms Kanck said there was “abundant evidence” that the 22.5 million
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The Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) last year released its proposed ‘Basin Plan’ (thebasinplan.mdba.gov.au) to manage water extraction in the Murray-Darling Basin. According to the MDBA: “Management will include enforceable long-term average sustainable persion limits, arrangements for the coordination and management of environmental water, ...
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is mourning the loss yesterday of its beloved Patron, Professor Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA who died aged 95. National President of SPA, Ms Sandra Kanck, said those who knew Professor Fenner described him as a "beautiful man". For many scientists in our organisation and beyond, he was the
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MELBOURNE’Selectricity prices have more than doubled in real terms over the past ten years, and will only become more expensive as population increases, Melbourne federal MP Kelvin Thomson said at a recent public forum at Richmond Town Hall. Speaking at a forum on Population: Melbourne’s Planning Puzzle on 7 November 2010, Mr Thomson said that
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Issued: 30 September 2010 “ABS data released yesterday confirms, yet again, that those states with the highest rates of population growth are performing worse in terms of per capita economic growth. Previous years and longer time scales lead to the same conclusion. “Those states with the highest rates of population growth suffered the largest reduction
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Burke’s Issues Paper shows Labor insincere on Sustainable Population
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