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MEDIA RELEASES: 10 July 2025

Sustainable Population Australia Expert Alert: World Population Day, 11 July.

  On World Population Day (11 July), Sustainable Population Australia 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. Themes for World Population Day (WPD) 25 include ‘family planning as a human right’ and ‘adapting

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EVENTS: 4 June 2025

SPA National President to be panellist on Perth ABC Forum on Immigration

  Our National President, Peter Strachan, has been invited as a panellist for the ‘Spotlight on Immigration’ forum, hosted by ABC Perth Mornings presenter Nadia Mitsopoulos. This live event will run on Wednesday June 18th, 10am – 11am (AWST), at the ABC Studios Perth (30 Fielder Street, Perth, WA 6004), adjacent to the Claisebrook train

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MEDIA RELEASES: 4 June 2025

World Environment Day Tokenistic in a World of Endless Growth

In response to the approval of the Northwest Shelf gas extension, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that World Environment Day (WED), which falls on June 5th, is tokenistic unless the environmental movement addresses the cause of our environmental issues, rather than the symptoms. SPA Spokesperson Michael Bayliss says that while the theme of the 2025

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MEDIA RELEASES: 21 May 2025

No such thing as ‘sustainable development’ for UN day for Biological Diversity

  The UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd, themed as ‘Harmony with nature and sustainable development‘ demonstrates complete ignorance of two basic facts, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). “Firstly, like all living creatures, humans are very much a part of nature and are the driving force for declining diversity of life

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NEWSLETTERS: 13 May 2025

SPA newsletter 159 – May 2025

In this issue you will find a front page article calling on the Prime Minister to address demand as well as supply when it comes to housing. There are three Opinion pieces including a report on the speech that Tim Buckley gave at our public meeting on 26 April, as well as articles by Colin

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VIDEOS: 10 May 2025

Videos for public meeting “Energy and Water:  Can Supply Keep Up with Rising Demand?”

On April 26th,  2025,  Sustainable Population National hosted a public meeting in Sydney:  “Energy and Water:  Can Supply Keep Up with Rising Demand?” With Prof.  Mark Diesendorf as MC,  we we fortunate to hear from three Speakers – Tim Buckley,  Dr Jonathan Sobels and Dr Peter Cook. Jonathan Sobels and Peter Cook are co-authors of

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MEDIA RELEASES: 8 May 2025

No halt to environment-crushing excessive population growth expected from Federal election result

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) sees no progress towards a sustainable environmental and economic future for Australia following the recent Federal Election. SPA’s National President, Peter Strachan says, “After expanding population by 8.6 million, or 45% over the past 25 years, Australia continues to add 553,000 people per year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.”

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MEDIA RELEASES: 22 April 2025

Immigration core Federal Election Issue as 19,000 Australians call to end Big Australia

Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over nineteen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Michael Bayliss, Communications Manager for Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says “the SPA position statement has attracted thousands of signatures in the lead up to the Federal Election. 

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