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MEDIA RELEASES: 5 April 2009

Sandra Kanck new president of environment group

Sustainable Population Australia www.population.org.au [email protected] 4th April, 2009 At its AGM this afternoon, former South Australian state MP, Hon. Sandra Kanck, will take on the position of national president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Ms Kanck says she is taking on the position at a time when more people are understanding that most of the […]

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MEDIA RELEASES: 3 April 2009

Adelaide conference to discuss impact of increasing population

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) will hold its national AGM and a mini-conference in Adelaide tomorrow which will address the issues of population in relation to climate change, peak oil and economics. Incoming national president of SPA, Ms Sandra Kanck, says that Australians are already living unsustainably, and growing our population simply adds to the problems

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MEDIA RELEASES: 11 March 2009

Media release: foreign minister commended on lifting gag rule

Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA) warmly congratulates the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, on his decision today to lift Australia’s version of the ‘global gag rule’. The gag rule was a guideline that prevented Australian overseas aid money going to any non-government organisation that undertook or even advised on abortion, including in countries where abortion was

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MEDIA RELEASES: 17 February 2009

SPA supports AMWU push to salvage local jobs from gas fire sale (OCT)

Oct 23, 2003 Sustainable Population Australia supports the “Make it Here or Jobs Disappear” rally. Mr Jock Ferguson , Secretary of the WA branch of the AMWU is quoted in the West Australian 23 October 2003 as saying that the AMWU campaign, “… aims to pressure developers and the Government into using local labour and

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MEDIA RELEASES: 16 February 2009

Give the west papuans refuge (Jan)

The West Papuan asylum seekers who recently arrived by outrigger canoe should be given at least temporary refuge in Australia, according to Sustainable Population Australia inc. (SPA). National President of SPA, Ms Jenny Goldie, says the 43 West Papuans, currently housed on Christmas Island, clearly fit the definition of political refugee under the 1951 Refugee

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MEDIA RELEASES: 16 February 2009

Population growth stymies greenhouse targets (Mar)

26 March 2007 A record 135,000 babies were born in the last six months in Australia, and immigration has reached a 17 year high, making the task of meeting future greenhouse gas emission targets virtually unattainable, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA). Australia’s latest population growth rate of 1.32 per cent – considered high

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MEDIA RELEASES: 16 February 2009

Queensland environment groups call for moratorium on growth in SEQ (JUN)

Thursday, 14 June 2007 Environment groups meeting at Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast last Sunday, 10th June, called for a moratorium on Local Growth Management Strategies (LGMS’s) under the South East Queensland Regional Plan until after the local government elections in 2008, when local residents would have the chance to vote for candidates based

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