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MEDIA RELEASES: 5 February 2013

MR: new immigration minister must heed monash paper and cut immigration

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called on the new Immigration Minister, Brendan O’Connor, to heed the findings of a paper issued yesterday. It found that the number of migrants arriving in Australia since the beginning of 2011 who found jobs about equals the number of new jobs created in Australia for everyone over the same

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MEDIA RELEASES: 15 January 2013

MR: reducing population growth can help climate mitigation

The current record-breaking heatwave that has affected continental Australia is a symptom of climate change, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc. (SPA). SPA national president, Ms Sandra Kanck, says reducing population growth is an integral part of climate change mitigation. “We commend the Australian Government for increasing funding to family planning, but at a mere

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MEDIA RELEASES: 12 December 2012

MR: SPA not a political party

The environmental group at the centre of the controversy between its national president, Hon. Sandra Kanck, and the Australian Democrats has countered claims by those who expelled Ms Kanck that it is a political party. Spokesperson for Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), Dr Jane O’Sullivan, says that SPA is recognised by the Federal Dept. of Environment

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NEWS: 27 November 2012

Immigration overshoot – CPUR

The latest report from CPUR, the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash Uni (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/cpur/) has been released and is entitled “Immigration Overshoot”. This from the report’s Summary:

“Australia has been in the grip of a boom mentality over the last decade. As in other such booms, governments and business enterprises seem to lose the capacity to reality-test claims, such as those from the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency, that Australia faces enormous growth in the demand for workers.” and “This report argues that the immigration intake is too high. It shows that under the current employment conditions several of the major visa subclasses need to be culled.”

The entire report is attached: Report in PDF

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