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MEDIA RELEASES: 7 March 2024

International Woman’s Day: Empowering women begins with reproductive rights

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has endorsed the theme of this year’s International Woman’s Day , namely, ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’,  which is aimed at tackling women’s economic disempowerment. SPA says, however, that economic progress for women is conditional on a number of factors, not least the ability to determine when (or indeed if)

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MEDIA RELEASES: 14 February 2024

Reduce pressures on wildlife by stabilising human numbers

    Sustainable Population Australia has called for the stabilisation of human population numbers in light of a UN Report that reveals migratory wildlife are in a shocking state. The first-ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report was launched on Monday by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).

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NEWS: 8 February 2024

Meet Our Upcoming National President: SPA interviews Peter Strachan for Newsletter

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  Peter Strachan is one of our stellar WA members, having been involved in the population debate for many years. Currently, he is making waves through his well read Twitter account. Not least, he will be the new national president of SPA following our AGM in April.  Peter caught up with SPA for a QandA

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MEDIA RELEASES: 5 February 2024

SPA mourns loss of Lowitja O’Donohue

  Sustainable Population Australia is mourning the loss of its former trustee, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, who died in Adelaide yesterday. Dr O’Donohue was the inaugural chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and patron of the Lowitja Institute, a research institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing. SPA national

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NEWS: 2 February 2024

Florence Blondel from Population Matters interviewed for SPA Newsletter

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  Sustainable Population Australia is very impressed by the achievements of Population Matters (PM).  While based in the UK,  it is a truly international organisation which has become a world leader when it comes to campaigning for global population sustainability. We were delighted when PM agreed to be profiled for SPA’s  Newsletter Feb 24 edition. 

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NEWSLETTERS: 1 February 2024

SPA newsletter 154 – February 2024

Dear SPA supporters In this issue of the SPA newsletter you will find: This newsletter notes the milestone of Australia reaching 27 million people after a year of record population growth, at the same time as China’s population falls. There are three Opinion pieces from SPA executive members, Jane O’Sullivan and/or Stephen Saunders, on what

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MEDIA RELEASES: 25 January 2024

27 million ‘milestone’ no cause for celebration

  Australia’s passing the 27 million population milestone is a matter of deep concern and not a cause for celebration, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ population clock, the milestone was passed at 3.45pm on Wednesday 24 January. It was helped along by a record 624,100 population increase

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NEWS: 22 December 2023

SPA promotes African family planning activities at the UN Climate Change conference in Dubai

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  SPA has had a long relationship with the Ecological Christian Organisation (ECO) in Uganda, a grassroots development agency that works with communities impacted by natural resource degradation or mining, to help improve outcomes for nature and for people. In 2010, SPA helped ECO to organise a very successful conference in Kampala, on “Population Growth

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MEDIA RELEASES: 16 December 2023

Half a million net migration shows Government totally lost control

The Australian population grew by 2.4 per cent (624,100 people) in the year to 30 June 2023, according to figures just released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Net overseas migration contributed 518,100 – an all-time record. This is a growth rate typical of Third World countries, not a rich country in the OECD, according to

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