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16 May 2007 By promoting population growth, every government in Australia is conspiring against its citizens to make the water situation in Australia worse, according to Sustainable Population Australia inc (SPA). National President of SPA, Dr John Coulter, says the water savings that each Australian is called upon to make are being rapidly and deliberately

29 April 2007. Kevin Rudd’s commitment to endless population and consumption growth makes him just as much ‘Yesterday’s man’ as John Howard, according to Sustainable Population Australia Inc (SPA). National President of SPA, Dr John Coulter, says Kevin Rudd should be careful that his own house is in order before he calls John Howard names.

Thursday 1 March 2007 A public forum held in the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, 24th February, called for a delay in the finalisation of all South East Queensland growth plans until after the next local government elections in 2008.   The South East Queensland Regional Plan 2002-2026 (SEQ Regional Plan) requires each local government in

Monday 30 April 2007 The Queensland Government’s South East Queensland Regional Plan suggests each of us should be consuming only 270 litres per person per day by 2010, 30L/person/day down on the current rate. However, this is only a small fraction of the water we consume say conservationists. Mr Simon Baltais, President of Sustainable Population

‘More and faster growth is the mantra of both our leaders. Yet it is increasingly clear that population and economic growth are the main drivers toward an unsustainable future. In every single chapter of the massive United Nations GEO-4 Report, released just last week and written by hundreds of the world’s leading scientists across a

Church leaders are to be congratulated for their rallying cry on climate change but need to address root causes, according to Sustainable Population Australia inc (SPA). National President of SPA, Dr John Coulter, says that population growth is a major root cause of climate change along with consumption and dependence on fossil fuels to run

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie’s call yesterday for an Australian population of 50 million echoes those by vested interests of the housing, construction and real estate industries, according to Sustainable Population Australia inc (SPA).   National President of SPA, Dr John Coulter, says that this is not surprising given the very large donations that members of

The Queensland Government is pushing high growth in South East Queensland via the Local Growth Management Strategies that every local government must adopt in the coming months say conservationists. The South East Queensland Regional Plan 2002-2026 (SEQ Regional Plan) requires each local government in SEQ to prepare a Local Growth Management Strategy by 30 June

Earth Day In keeping with the theme for Earth Day 2007, “A call for action on climate change”, a public forum at Indigiscapes in Capalaba Saturday called for a halt to the South East Queensland Regional Plan until climate change and protection of our natural environment are factored into the planning process. Predictions in the

It is long past the time when our politicians learnt what ‘environmental sustainability’ really means, according to the newly elected national president of Sustainable Population Australia inc (SPA), Dr John Coulter. “For too long ‘sustainable’ has been used as a euphemism for all that is good and acceptable,” says Dr Coulter. “Politicians and others have