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MEDIA RELEASES: 2 June 2021

Help Restore Ecosystems by Ending Population Growth: World Environment Day

Sustainable Population Australia MEDIA RELEASE (02/06/2021) Help restore ecosystems by ending population growth With ‘Restoring Ecosystems’ as the theme for World Environment Day (5 June), Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is urging an end to population growth as a top priority. SPA National President Ms Jenny Goldie says that restoring ecosystems is an excellent objective; nevertheless,

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 28 May 2021

Of mice and Marie

The thought of Marie Low (“Australia, we can’t just keep on building outwards forever”, canberratimes.com.au, May 23) having a live mouse in the toe of her boot will stay with me for a long time. Nevertheless, her sentiments on the need to rein in population growth were admirable. Similarly, Nicholas Stuart (“When what we “know”

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MEDIA RELEASES: 7 May 2021

Low immigration will boost jobs and incomes

Sustainable Population Australia MEDIA RELEASE (04/05/2021) Skilled migration into Australia should have stricter labour market testing and a required income threshold to ensure migrant labour is not used to undercut Australian workers. This is the thrust of a submission by Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) to the ongoing parliamentary inquiry into skilled migration. SPA National President

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SUBMISSIONS TO INQUIRIES: 3 May 2021

Submission to inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program

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Extract from the SPA submission: “Australia’s skilled migration program (both permanent and temporary) has been a major part of Australia’s high migrant intake over the past two decades. SPA does not believe it desirable to return to the prepandemic ‘normal’ of high immigration and high population growth. We believe that, if asked, this would also be ...

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MEDIA RELEASES: 20 April 2021

Restoring the earth means ending population growth

MEDIA RELEASE (20/04/2021)   For this year’s Earth Day, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called for an end to population growth nationally and globally as the first critical step towards the restoration of our gravely diminished natural landscapes and biodiversity. “Together, We Can Restore Our Earth” is the theme of the 2021 Earth Day which is

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EVENTS: 20 April 2021

‘8 billion angels’ world premiere for earth day

Last year,  SPA was honoured to open one of the very first screenings of the over-population documentary “8 Billion Angels” at the Transition Film Festival, Melbourne. For Earth Day 2021,  ‘Billion Angels’  is now enjoying its world premiere launch. Celebrate Earth Day Week for the world premiere of 8 BILLION ANGELS with celebrity naturalist Chris

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EVENTS: 19 April 2021

SPA Annual General Meeting 2021

The SPA AGM will be held electronically via Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88498712408 Meeting ID: 884 9871 2408 If joining by phone dial by your location. Find your local number:  https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kNUwXYTRz Attachments: SPAExec AGM 2021 Agenda Ballot questions & explanations for 2021 President report to 2021 AGM Audit_report_for_Dec 2020 for the Sustainable Population 2021-03-05 AGM Treasurer’s report

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: 19 April 2021

We’re doing just fine the way things are now

(Property Council of Australia CEO) Ken Morrison (“We need a dose of quarantine to open borders”, April 16) wants our vast number of immigrants, students and tourists back asap. Never mind that, pre-COVID, our rampant population-fed, greed-and-growth economic model was rapidly destroying the livability of our major cites and, in all respects, was environmentally unsustainable.

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