Newsletters
SPA newsletter 137 – November 2019
This newsletter contains two exciting announcements. First, SPA has been given the rights to hold the Fenner Conference on Environment next year, on the subject “Making Australian agriculture sustainable”. Second, Bob Carr will launch the first of SPA-commissioned reports – this one on Infrastructure – on 26 November in Sydney. The newsletter has two opinion […]
SPA newsletter 136 – August 2019
In this issue, we take a more international approach and focus on family planning. You will find a front page article about Earth Overshoot Day being three days earlier this year, on 29 July. There are Opinion articles from Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves, Patricia Derer and Joe Guzzardi; abstracts of two important papers; a […]
SPA newsletter 135 – May 2019
In this issue you will find a front page story about the winner of the inaugural Mary E White Unsung Hero award, and the fourth Life Membership issued by SPA. Inside are excellent articles from Bill Schlesinger, Crispin Hull, Judith Sloan and Sue Arnold. There’s a book review of “Empty Planet” and a report from […]
SPA newsletter 134 – February 2019
In this issue we highlight the Opinion article about ageing in the prestigious journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), co-authored by SPA’s Queensland president, Jane O’Sullivan. There are Opinion pieces by Stephen Saunders and Geoff Davies, what Barry Jones thinks Abraham Lincoln might have said in his Gettysburg address today, and news of the […]
SPA newsletter 133 – October 2018
In this issue we farewell Patron Mary White and welcome new Patron Katharine Betts. You will find a number of Opinion pieces and a review of the important paper by John Bongaarts and Brian C O’Neill as to whether population had been ‘left out in the cold’ in terms of climate action. There’s a book […]
SPA newsletter 132 – June 2018
Contents MMT basics MMT and a steady-state economy MMT and a government job guarantee SPA celebrates 30th birthday Branch and president's report Jun-SPA-132.pdf
SPA newsletter 131 – March 2018
In this edition you will find a worrying article by eminent bio-ecologist William Rees about how we humans are blind to imminent biological collapse. Another paper compares two important studies on Australians’ attitudes to immigration.There’s news of SPA trustee, Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, winning an AM in the Australia Day honours list and a tribute to […]
SPA newsletter 130 – Dec 2017
In this issue you will find a report on the ‘second warning to humanity’ by over 15,000 scientists, a similar one to that issued in 1992 but more serious as the situation is now worse. There is also the summary of the Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) study that finds Australians are tired of the […]
SPA newsletter 129 – Sept 2017
Contents Colin Butler on slowing migration Bob Birrell on the visa reset Bob Kinnaird on the visa reset Jenny Goldie book review Branch reports Treasurer’s report to the AGM President’s snippets Sept SPA 129.pdf
SPA newsletter 128 – Jun 2017
ContentsJenny Goldie reflects on 29 years of SPAJames Ward et al on the decoupling delusionWilliam Rees on the wages of self-delusionVale Bryan FurnassBook reviews June SPA 128.pdf