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NEWS: 5 October 2018

SPA takes on liz allen, Australia’s extinction crisis, and revamps our popforum

President message: e-news, Oct 012018 SPA’s activism on your behalf continues with our submission to the Senate Environment Committee’s inquiry into ‘Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis’. You can read it here: https://population.org.au/articles/2018-09-18/spas-submission-senate-environment-committees-inquiry-australias-extinction. In April communication within SPA’s Yahoo groups became all but impossible, and as a consequence 80 or so members who are part

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NEWS: 28 July 2018

Growth squeezes species

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In 2010, The Australian Conservation Foundation nominated human population growth as a key threat to biodiversity in Australia. Their submission outlines areas where the pressure is greatest. For example: In 2005, 60% of Australia’s coastal councils had an annual population growth rate greater than 3%, or at least twice the national average. Now

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NEWS: 13 June 2018

PopCulture – youth unemployment

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The first of our PopCulture series of videos.

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NEWS: 27 March 2018

SPA swings into the ABC population debate

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Have you noticed the sudden unexpected coverage about population on the ABC? On the 12th of March, 4 Corners ran an episode called ‘Big Australia – Are We Ready.’, Directly following this was a panel discussion QandA on ‘A Big Australia’. Since then, population has continued to be one of ‘the’ major topics of discussion

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NEWS: 10 October 2017

President’s message October 2017

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I imagine what I’m about to write will be met with a mixed response, but I wanted to talk about it anyway. I read an interesting article last week, and found myself agreeing with some significant aspects of what the author (David Roberts) said. Basically Roberts’ message is that population is, rightly or wrongly, simply

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NEWS: 22 September 2017

President’s message September 2017

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I write this note from a hotel room in Melbourne. There’s a lot going on around here – I’ll be keen to see it when it’s finished. The people I met with yesterday (a community group interested in urban agriculture – one of my fields of research) mentioned that many of the high-rise apartment

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NEWS: 4 May 2017

Population: have we made any progress at all?

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Jenny Goldie This title was prompted by a recent question from a member of SPA, who wondered whether the considerable money he had donated over the years had been cost effective. It led to my reflecting on whether SPA has indeed made any progress over the past 29 years since the organisation was founded. Let’s

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NEWS: 14 April 2017

Girls not brides

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Link: http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/ Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 400 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential.

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NEWS: 14 April 2017

Population and sustainability network

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Link: http://populationandsustainability.org/ PSN is an international network and advocacy organisation that believes that the connections between population dynamics, human health and the environment are intrinsic to sustainable development. It is the international program of the Margaret Pike Trust.

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NEWS: 14 April 2017

Population and sustainable development alliance

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Link: http://psda.org.uk/ Respecting rights, meeting needs, building resilience. Population and Sustainable Development Alliance (PSDA) is an international network of civil society organisations that work together on population, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and sustainable development issues.

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