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MEDIA RELEASES: 26 September 2025

World Contraception Day reminds us that access to contraception is a human right

  World Contraception Day (WCD) is a day of observation recognised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP).  The central focus of WCD is ‘a world where every pregnancy is desired’. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) upholds the rights of women to control their bodies.  As a result of the withdrawal of USAID, SPA calls on

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MEDIA RELEASES: 6 September 2025

National Threatened Species Day 2025: population growth key driver of decline

  On this National Threatened Species Day, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) draws focus to the devastating and ongoing decline of Australia’s biodiversity. The Australia State of the Environment Report 2021 notes that human population growth contributes to pressures on the environment and has ‘very high impact’ on biodiversity.   Mr Peter Strachan, National President, Sustainable

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MEDIA RELEASES: 26 August 2025

SPA Statement on the March for Australia

  Mr Peter Strachan, National President, Sustainable Population Australia Comments attributable to Mr Strachan “The tone set by organisers of the ‘March for Australia’ has led to understandable concerns about possible infiltration from far right groups.” “The March has also provided perfect fodder for the promoters of Big Australia to claim any opposition to high

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NEWS: 21 August 2025

Sustainable Population Australia’s Statement on the March for Australia

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    A respectful conversation, free from racism and slurs of racism, is needed about Australia’s population and immigration settings   The lack of transparency by organisers of the March for Australia has led to understandable concerns about its connection to neo-Nazi and other far right groups. The result is confusion and wariness of the

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MEDIA RELEASES: 13 August 2025

Expert Alert: New report from Sustainable Population Australia offers six great solutions to immigration.

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) offers practical policy measures that can slow migration to manageable numbers, ultimately stabilising Australia’s population below 30 million.  These are available to read in a brand new report ‘6 Great Immigration Solutions’. This report provides logical and concise rationale in informing better policy on the critical issues of immigration and

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BRIEFING NOTES: 10 August 2025

6 Great Immigration Solutions

The federal government has failed to bring immigration numbers under control following the COVID-19 pandemic. Net overseas migration for calendar year 2024 was 50% higher than pre-COVID levels at 340,800 and continues to exceed Treasury projections. The resultant high population growth (around 1.7%) puts unrelenting pressure on housing, infrastructure, carbon emissions, water supplies and the

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NEWSLETTERS: 2 August 2025

SPA newsletter 160 – Aug 2025

Welcome to the latest SPA newsletter. In it you will find: a front page article about President Trump’s denying women in need access to contraception; three Opinion articles by Peter Cook, Mark Diesendorf and Jenny Goldie; an interview with Fons Jena from the European Alliance for a Sustainable Population; a campaign report from Michael Bayliss;

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MEDIA RELEASES: 23 July 2025

Media Release: Earth Overshoot Day, 24 July

    On Earth Overshoot Day, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is urging national and global leaders to confront the unsustainable pace of population growth – a primary but often neglected driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequality. Earth Overshoot Day signifies the point in the year when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and

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MEDIA RELEASES: 17 July 2025

Treasury’s housing conclusion supports population pause.

According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), The Australian Treasury’s “accidental” release on housing supply is an admission of the following: Huge environmental and economic costs to build and maintain infrastructure for a rapidly expanding population. The government’s target for 1.2 million homes by mid-2029 is an illusion. Higher taxes are required to support public infrastructure

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