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NEWS: 2 February 2025

SPA supports global population projects with ECO and Isaac Kabongo

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  While the dominant focus of SPA’s campaigns and messaging is around the immediate and pressing concerns with regard to Australia’s domestic population issues, SPA also contributes internationally. We recognise that population growth and overpopulation are problems locally AND globally. Two of our international activities are to raise the profile of population issues at the United

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VIDEOS: 27 January 2025

Meet SPA’s newest Patron, Prof. Anne Poelina

Professor Anne Poelina is Sustainable Population Australia’s most recent patron, since 2024. Professor Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa woman from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is an active community leader, human and earth rights advocate, film maker and respected academic researcher.  She was interviewed by SPA for the ‘Meet Our Patrons’  series

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NEWS: 13 December 2024

Dr John Coulter legacy remembered at Post Growth Australia Podcast

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  For this episode of the SPA supported Post-Growth Australia Podcast (PGAP), we pay tribute to Dr. John Coulter, who sadly passed away in September 2024. John Richard Coulter (3 December 1930 – 6 September 2024) was a trailblazer in the conservation movement.  This interview was originally broadcast in 2021 as part of the episode

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MEDIA RELEASES: 13 December 2024

Australia still at ‘third world’ rates of population growth

Continuation of a third-world pace of population growth, at 2.1% pa, puts further pressure on Australia’s housing, infrastructure and fragile environment, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA national President Peter Strachan was responding to today’s ABS population figures that revealed Australia grew by 552,000 in the year to 30 June 2024, more than 80 per

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MEDIA RELEASES: 25 November 2024

Population growth weakening Australia’s water security: new report

  Water demand due to population growth is outstripping improvements in Australians’ efficiency of household water use, according to new research commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) in a report titled Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability. “Since 2010, per person water use in the household sector has remained

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DISCUSSION PAPERS: 25 November 2024

Big thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability

Big Thirsty Australia — full report (PDF) by Jonathan Sobels, Peter Cook, Sandra Kanck and Jane O’Sullivan Most Australians are oblivious of the momentous changes taking place in Australia’s water security due to population growth and climate change. For 200 years, Australia’s expanding population has driven demand for more water. As population continues to grow

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MEDIA RELEASES: 20 November 2024

No surprise that report finds half Australians think immigration too high

The finding by the Scanlon Foundation that nearly half Australians (49%) think immigration is too high should come as no surprise, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The 2024 report Mapping Australia’s Cohesion found there is growing belief that immigration is too high and is strongly related to economic and housing issues rather than attitudes

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NEWS: 11 November 2024

SPA Interviews CASSE NSW Inc for November Newsletter

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  For most editions of the SPA Newsletter,  we interview ‘Sister Organisations’ or fellow groups who are also advocating for population sustainability.  In the case of Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (or CASSE),  this worldwide organisation advocates for alternatives to the current globalised growth bases economies that currently define our societies. 

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MEDIA RELEASES: 4 November 2024

Immigration an election issue as prominent Australians join the call to stabilise Australia’s population

  Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over seventeen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) National President, Peter Strachan said,“ Australians are angry about the impact of rapid population growth on their lives and are frustrated that

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