ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Saturday 19 March 2022 at 11am. (Morning tea will be served at 10.30am.) Pavilion Room, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT 2600. You can also participate in the AGM online on Zoom, link here All financial members of SPA are welcome to attend. There
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This event has now passed. However, video recordings from the conference are now available. These can be watched from the Fenner 2022 website (link here) or the Fenner 2022 YouTube channel (link here). You may also be interested in our retrospective of the conference at our website here. Australian agriculture today is largely unsustainable.
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Peter Cain suggests that Canberra could carry a population of 1 million (Planning for a million-person Canberra, canberratimes.com.au, January 14). We may assume he is unaware of Liebig’s Law of the Minimum, which states that growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource. What is Canberra’s scarcest resource? I suspect it
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Submission to Dept of Home Affairs consultation on Australia’s 2022-23 Migration Program Read More »
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Australia’s immigration policy is its de facto population policy. In setting Australia’s immigration policy, the Minister for Home Affairs is setting Australia’s population policy. Home Affairs should therefore advise the Minister that population growth has these costs: 1. Harming the environment. 2. Reducing Australians’ quality of life. 3. ...
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Julian Cribb’s article “It’s the end of politics as we know it” (canberratimes.com.au, January 14) was for me the highlight of Friday’s The Canberra Times. Of human governance he says “they have managed to bury the facts under a fantasy of never-ending growth”. And when speaking of the possibility of fixing 19th and 20th century politics,
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The battle lines for Big Australia have been drawn. It represents a divide perhaps not seen since the conscription referendum of World War I. The Australian Financial Review continues to do its bit (‘‘Full recovery needs a bolder plan for a bigger Australia’’ , January 5) on behalf of the perpetual growthers by spruiking a
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SPA’s Communications Manager, Michael Bayliss, was interviewed on the USA based ‘This Sustainable Life: Solve For Nature’ podcast. In this episode, Michael candidly discusses his perspectives on overpopulation and the necessity to transition to a post-growth economy, while giving a great plug for SPA and for our Post-Growth Australia Podcast (PGAP) which Michael hosts.
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The call by Innes Wilcox, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group to lift the cap on immigration from 160,000 to between 190,00 and 200,000 is unwarranted, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA argues that the so-called skills shortage is over-rated and does not require a return to pre-Covid levels of immigration. SPA
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The Steady Stater Podcast is hosted by Brian Czech, founder of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). CASSE is well known to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), with many of SPA’s membership who are also supporters of CASSE. CASSE shares with SPA concerns regarding overpopulation and a vision for a post-growth
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Some lobby groups and politicans want to increase population growth again. But many economists are now saying what most Australians already know – that high population growth puts downward pressure on wages for working people. Not to mention the impact on Australia’s natural environment. Find out more about why we should rethink a Big Australia
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