The 30th of July 2026 is Earth Overshoot Day: the exact date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in this entire calendar year. For Australia, the overshoot date was even earlier, on 29 March, indicating how much our affluent lifestyle (including fossil fuel use) is draining global
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that Australia’s population expanded by 423,595 in the 12 months to September 2025, an increase from 419,368 in the year to June ‘24. While natural increase has fallen, immigration numbers are on the rise. Over the 4 years to September 2025 Australia’s estimated resident population expanded by 2.02 million,
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The Global Water Bankruptcy report, published on Jan. 20, 2026, indicated that global human demand for freshwater has exceeded the volume that nature can reliably replace, resulting in worldwide water insecurity for billions of people. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that population growth drives expanding water demand. Australia is also at risk of chronic water shortages
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World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October each year and is recognized by the United Nations. On 6 October 2025, the Global Observance of World Habitat Day will be “urban crisis response”. https://urbanoctober.unhabitat.org/whd Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that population growth is a fundamental driver of the symptoms of the multiple
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On World Population Day (11 July), Sustainable Population Australia is urging national and global leaders to confront the unsustainable pace of population growth – a primary but often neglected driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequality. Themes for World Population Day (WPD) 25 include ‘family planning as a human right’ and ‘adapting
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The NSW State of the Environment report (SoE) is the 12th triennial for the period between 2021 and 2024 but was only tabled in the NSW parliament on June 26th. The SoE report clearly states, “Increases in population and economic activity are driving significant changes in the environment and human health.” Sustainable Population Australia
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The UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22nd, themed as ‘Harmony with nature and sustainable development‘ demonstrates complete ignorance of two basic facts, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). “Firstly, like all living creatures, humans are very much a part of nature and are the driving force for declining diversity of life
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In the lead-up to World Water Day (March 22), the theme of which is ‘Glacier Preservation’, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) warns that people dependent on glacial meltwater for crops will face even worse food insecurity as population numbers continue to grow. SPA National President Peter Strachan says that billions of people as well as
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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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Media release (World Food Day 16/10 and International Poverty Eradication Day 17/10) Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says the first two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of ‘No Poverty’ and ‘Zero Hunger’ – both by 2030 – cannot be achieved while world population continues an inexorable climb. SPA national president Peter Strachan says 692 million people
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