Media Releases 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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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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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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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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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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Sustainable Population Australia welcomes Professor Anne Poelina as Patron

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed Professor Anne Poelina, a renowned First Australian academic who is very active on social equality issues, as the new patron. Prof Poelina joins respected names, including Dr Katharine Betts, Dr Paul Collins, and Professors Tim Flannery, the Hon Bob Carr, and Ian Lowe, as a patron of SPA.

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World Contraception Day reminds us that access to contraception is a human right

  To mark World Contraception Day on 26 September, Sustainable Population Australia says access to contraception is a human right, yet 257 million women globally are trying to avoid pregnancy without access to any form of modern contraception. This makes them vulnerable to unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and preventable maternal death. SPA national president Peter

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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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