Media Releases 2024

NSW Biodiversity report fails to mention underlying cause of decline

Sustainable Population Australia is alarmed that the NSW Biodiversity Outlook Report 2024 fails to identify population numbers and growth as the underlying causes of biodiversity decline in the state. SPA national president Peter Strachan, says habitat loss is cited as the major threat to biodiversity; yet the report does not explain why this habitat loss

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SPA welcomes new president and Patron

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed Metallurgist and corporate analyst Peter Strachan as its new president. Former leader of the Australian Democrats Dr John Coulter has also been appointed SPA’s sixth Patron. Mr Strachan is well known in the Perth community and has been active in the population debate for 45 years.  For 17 years

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Public meeting will address Australia’s unsustainable population growth

At a public meeting in Adelaide on Saturday organised by Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), expert speakers will explain why Australia’s current rapid population growth is unsustainable. SPA is currently running a campaign ‘Say NO to Big Australia!’ In the year ending 30 September 2023, Australia grew by 659,800 people, at a growth rate of  2.5%,

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Majority say Australia does not need more people: TAPRI survey

  According to the latest survey from The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI), a decisive 71% of voters say Australia does not need more people. Jenny Goldie, national president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says there is a large and growing voter constituency concerned about the level of immigration despite support from Business, Labor Government

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Population growth rate figures even more shocking than last quarter

  The population growth rate figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday are even more shocking than those released three months ago, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). According to the ABS, for the year ending 30 September 2023, Australia’s population growth rate was 2.5%, equivalent to that of Nigeria, Senegal and Somalia,

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Growing global population placing increasing demand on water

  Media release for World Water Day (22 March 2024) Water, a finite resource, is under growing pressure from growing populations at both national and global levels, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). According to SPA, this threatens both social and international stability. SPA national president Jenny Goldie says currently about half the world’s population experiences

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Population growth is unsustainable regardless of action to reduce impact

  The SA/NT branch of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the State of Environment 2023 (SoE) report for South Australia which states that human activities are the greatest driver of environmental change. According to the report, unless we reduce our impacts, adapt to our environment and better appreciate that our health and wellbeing is

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International Woman’s Day: Empowering women begins with reproductive rights

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has endorsed the theme of this year’s International Woman’s Day , namely, ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’,  which is aimed at tackling women’s economic disempowerment. SPA says, however, that economic progress for women is conditional on a number of factors, not least the ability to determine when (or indeed if)

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