Health and Food

Population sustainability required for urban crisis response on World Habitat Day

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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Sustainable Population Australia Expert Alert: World Population Day, 11 July.

  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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No such thing as ‘sustainable development’ for UN day for Biological Diversity

  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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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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Hunger and poverty resurgent as world population continues to climb

  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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Thirty years is too long to turn a blind eye to world population growth

  September 13 marks thirty years since the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo effectively denounced population stabilisation as a development goal. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues it is time for a reset. “World population is still growing by about 90 million a year,” notes SPA spokesperson Dr Jane O’Sullivan.

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Australia is Overpopulated and has Breached its Ecological Limits

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) calls for sensible public policy that takes heed of the driest continent’s ecological limits to growth, as demonstrated by a record of steady environmental decline over the past 100 years. Capping annual net migration below 70,000 to ensure Australia’s population remains below 30 million, would limit further degradation. SPA’s President,

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World Population Day: a population may survive but not thrive if it grows rapidly

Our National President,  Peter Strachan was interviewed accross numerous Australian radio programs for World Population Day,  including 2GB with Michael McLaren which may be listened to HERE As World Population Day approaches on July 11, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says a population may survive but not thrive if it grows rapidly. SPA national president Peter

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