Migration

Australia needs a compassionate and practical plan for 77,700 visa overstayers

Sustainable Population Australia is calling on the Federal Government to substantially expand and promote assisted voluntary return for people living in Australia after their visas have expired. The Department of Home Affairs estimated that 77,700 unlawful non-citizens were living in Australia as of 30 June 2025, excluding people already in held or community detention. Yet

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Global Water Bankruptcy Only Solved by Stabilising Population: SPA

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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Expert Alert: New report from Sustainable Population Australia offers six great solutions to immigration.

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) offers practical policy measures that can slow migration to manageable numbers, ultimately stabilising Australia’s population below 30 million.  These are available to read in a brand new report ‘6 Great Immigration Solutions’. This report provides logical and concise rationale in informing better policy on the critical issues of immigration and

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Immigration core Federal Election Issue as 19,000 Australians call to end Big Australia

Dick Smith (AC), Prof. Ian Lowe and Prof.  Anne Poelina have joined over nineteen thousand Australians in signing a position statement calling for the stabilisation of Australia’s population. Michael Bayliss, Communications Manager for Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), says “the SPA position statement has attracted thousands of signatures in the lead up to the Federal Election. 

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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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Coalition’s plan for 160,000 NOM a step in the right direction

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the federal Coalition’s plan to reduce annual net overseas migration (NOM) to 160,000, saying it is “a step in the right direction”. In the year ending 30 September 2023, NOM reached 548,800. SPA national president, Peter Strachan, says recent levels of NOM were totally unsustainable in social and

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2024 Federal budget must address housing affordability and protect the environment

  Ahead of the 2024 Federal Budget, environmental protection organisation, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is searching for evidence that the Treasurer will follow through on his commitment to prioritise the wellbeing of citizens. SPA National President, Peter Strachan said: “A single focus on Australia’s national trade in goods as services, as calculated by its Gross Domestic Product (GDP),

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