Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the report Too hot to handle the scorching reality of Australia’s climate–security failure released this week by the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group (ASLCG). The ASLCG report is highly critical of the federal government for not recognising climate change as a major security risk. It warns that the
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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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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed the government’s closure of the Business Innovation and Investment Program (BIIP) in light of claims that it had a profoundly negative impact on the economy. The Significant Investor visa strand of the program required a minimum investment of $5 million in Australia and conferred an automatic right of
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A media storm around the new Intergenerational Report has focused on massive increases in the numbers of elderly and costs of aged care in the next 40 years. This is scaremongering intended to quell resistance to rapid population growth, according to environmental group Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). “The timing of this report is revealing,”
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According to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, ‘housing supply and affordability’ will be the key priority when the National Cabinet meets in Brisbane on 16 August. According to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), however, to solve the housing crisis, government must deal with housing demand and not just supply. SPA National President Jenny Goldie notes that
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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) considers Australia’s population growth rate in 2022 too high and called on the federal government to put a brake on immigration. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest population figures today showing Australia’s population grew by nearly half a million (496,800 or 1.9%) in the year ending 31
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The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement reconfirms that Australian Prime Minister Albanese stands for an ‘Excessively Big Australia’, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Voters are coming off third best. Last week, Prime Minister Albanese and Indian counterpart Narendra Modi signed the Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement, which aims to make it easier for
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Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has questioned the claim by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) that ‘two thirds of Australians believe that properly planned and well managed migration is good for Australia’. BCA has asked a loaded question, to get the answer they wanted. Their result is directly contradicted by the more reliable Australia
The Migration System Review will not fix the problems of migrant worker exploitation, visa wait times nor skills shortages, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The review report, led by former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, does not explicitly discuss the scale of the migration program. But scale is the most important factor affecting outcomes, according
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In light of the latest statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers about needing to lift net overseas migration (NOM) even more than the 235,000 cited in the Budget, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is asking: just how many more immigration hikes will there be? At the Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the Treasurer hiked permanent
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