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MEDIA RELEASES: 21 May 2015

Population pressure on the environment will lead to catastrophe

Media release: Earth Day – 21st April, 2015: for immediate release Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) urges people everywhere to mark Earth Day on April 22 by focusing on the role that overpopulation plays in environmental degradation. SPA national president Sandra Kanck says the evidence is overwhelming that the world’s natural environment is trending towards a catastrophe

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SUBMISSIONS TO INQUIRIES: 20 May 2015

Submission to the inquiry into the register of environmental organisations

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Sustainable Population Australia   Patrons: Hon. Bob Carr, Dr Paul Collins, Prof Tim Flannery, Prof Ian Lowe, Dr Mary E White Youth Ambassador: Ms Bindi Irwin population.org.au PO Box 3851 Weston  Creek  ACT  2601 Ph. 02 6288 6810 The Committee Secretary House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment PO Box 6021 Parliament House Canberra ACT ...

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NEWS: 14 May 2015

“Population and ageing: disaster or triumph?”

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Following the SPA AGM held in Adelaide on the 7th March this year (2015) the organisers ‘treated’ the public and the assembled members to a symposium titled “Population and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph?” Three speakers, Dr Katharine Betts, Dr. Jane O’Sullivan and Associate Professor Philip Lawn delivered powerful presentations examining the current debate on population aging.

The Powerpoint presentations accompanying each talk have been made available by each speaker and are attached here as PDF’s and links ae provided to the video presentations of each. You are encourged to download for use in personal research.

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NEWS: 22 February 2015

Book launch: sustainable futures

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Former Foreign Minister the Hon Bob Carr will launch the book Sustainable Futures – Linking population, resources and the environment in Canberra on the 25th of February. Written by leaders in their own fields, the book is based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on ‘Population, Resources and Climate Change’ is a timely insight

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NEWSLETTERS: 29 January 2015

SPA newsletter 119 – Feb 2015

Hon. Kelvin Thomson MP talks about Australia’s continuing population growth and its impacts on employment   Peter McDonald, Professor of Demography at Australian National University, tells us there are no formal qualifications required to call oneself a demographer   Economics analyst Leith van Onselen compares the employment rates of Roy Morgan Research and the Australian

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SUBMISSIONS TO INQUIRIES: 31 December 2014

Submission to Productivity Commission infrastructure provision and funding in Australia

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  O’Sullivan, J. 2014. Submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into infrastructure provision and funding in Australia. Submission #156. This submission was in response to the draft report of the Productivity Commission’s Public Infrastructure report in 2014.  The submission,  authored by  Dr Jane O’Sulivan, argued “that the main ...

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MEDIA RELEASES: 21 December 2014

Drop in growth rate welcome – SPA

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) welcomes the drop in the population growth rate as reported by the Australian Bureaus of Statistics (ABS) on Friday. The growth rate in the year to 30 June 2014 was 1.6 per cent, or an increase of 364,900 over the previous year. The growth rate has declined slowly from over 2%

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NEWSLETTERS: 1 December 2014

SPA newsletter 118 – Nov 2014

World population predictions for 2100   Dr Walter Youngquist: Energy and population   Dr Nick Ware: What is the ideal population?   Dr David Kault: Ebola for catastrophists   Obituary of SPA member, Dr Tony McMichael, “the gentle giant of epidemiology”   Book review: Sustainable Futures – Linking population, resources and the environment (editors Jenny

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