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NEWS: 3 June 2022

Australians don’t want more population growth: Survey

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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) recently teamed up with online news site YourLifeChoices.  We invited the YourLifeChoices readership to participate in a survey regarding their attitudes toward population growth in Australia. Nearly 500 people responded and the results were overwhelmingly in support of a better, not bigger Australia. For example: 76% of respondents believe Australia does

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MEDIA RELEASES: 3 June 2022

On this Environment Day – remember Stockholm

On this World Environment Day (June 5), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is calling on governments to remember what the declaration from the first UN Conference on the Environment held in June 1972 in Stockholm said about population growth. It said: The natural growth of population continuously presents problems for the preservation of the environment, and

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MEDIA RELEASES: 27 May 2022

Support union call for income threshold for all skilled migrants: SPA

In the lead-up to Labor’s Employment Summit, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has supported the call by unions for an income threshold for skilled migrants to be well above average earnings. While unions have suggested $90,000 as a pay floor, and the Grattan Institute $70,000, SPA recommends the government should seek to apply one that is

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VIDEOS: 6 May 2022

Video recordings now available of the 2022 Fenner Conference

The video recordings of the 2022 Fenner conference:  ‘Making Australian Agriculture Sustainable’ are now publicly available to watch. The entire collection may now be viewed on the Fenner 2022 YouTube channel,  link here.  They can also be viewed at the conference website,  link here. We include a couple of examples below. The “welcome”  video below

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NEWSLETTERS: 4 May 2022

SPA newsletter 147 – May 2022

In this issue you will find a report on the recent Fenner Conference on sustainable agriculture including the closing address by our Patron Ian Lowe. You will also find an article on how cities are rapidly encroaching on the Earth’s biodiversity republished from the PNAS journal. There are two book reviews: one on the biography

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MEDIA RELEASES: 1 May 2022

Solutions to land degradation must include an end to population growth

The ability of Earth to provide food for eight billion humans is rapidly declining. Forty per cent of planet Earth’s land is now degraded. Yet, if human population growth is not halted, food for an additional two to three billion will be needed but unable to be supplied, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national

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