An important public meeting for concerned Sydney residents
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2 pm, Saturday November 8, Glebe Town Hall
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Media release for International Day of the Girl Child (October 11) Adolescent girls everywhere should have age appropriate sex education and ready access to contraception should they need it. October 11 is the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2014 theme is “Empowering adolescent girls: Ending the cycle of violence”. According to Sustainable
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If we are to avoid having 12 billion people on the planet by the end of the century, we must make contraception readily available to all couples. On 18 September 2014, an important paper was published in the journal Science from the United Nations’ Population Division, saying that world population is unlikely to stabilise this
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Crawford Fund Parliamentary Conference told that if we are to provide food for nine billion we must invest in women, which must include sexual health and reproductive rights. Tim Roberts and Nigel Stace (University of Newcastle): Mankind – ten billion or two billion? Facing the 21st Century version of the Four Horsemen of the
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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) today called on the Federal Government to undertake a complete review of immigration into Australia in light of claims of widespread rorting of the system. This week, Dr Bob Birrell and Dr Ernest Healy from the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University issued a report called Immigration and
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A UN Report[i] to be issued tomorrow (July 10), the day before World Population Day, will note that by 2050 about two-thirds of all humans will live in urban areas. Most of the anticipated urban growth by 2050 will occur in Asia and Africa. Already, more than half the global population lives in cities. As
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Annual General Meeting 2.00pm Saturday July 12th 2014 Venue: Balwyn Library meeting room, 336 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn VIC 3103, Australia Tram number:109 Melway ref. 46E8 Contact: Jill Quirk Ph. 95097429 [email protected] Guest Speaker: Jenny Warfe, spokesperson for Blue Wedges “Politics, Population and Ports” Massive developments to enlarge Victoria’s port capacity are proposed by
The drop in Australia’s population growth rate from 1.8 to 1.7 per cent is a welcome trend though still much too high, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). In the figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), in the year ending 31 December 2013, the annual growth is Australia’s population fell below
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High population densities are as much a challenge for small island states as is climate change, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). World Environment Day is June 5, and this year aims to raise awareness about the impact of climate change on small islands states around the world. National president of SPA, Ms Jenny Goldie,
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Katharine Betts: Ageing a triumph, not a disaster Nicholas Stuart: A bigger population will not guarantee more prosperity Leith van Onselen: High immigration is creating an illusion of growth Associate Prof William Grey: population, resources, and the environment in the 21st century Em Prof Tony McMichael AO: Climate change, other disruptive
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