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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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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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Resolve survey strongly confirms that majority of Australians think immigration too high

The latest Resolve Strategic public opinion survey on views about the level of migrant intake proves yet again that a large majority of Australians think our immigration levels and population growth are too high. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) says it reinforces findings from previous surveys over several years and using a variety of sampling

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Big majority of Australians reject Big Australia

Australians have decisively rejected returning to pre-covid levels of high immigration and high population growth according to the latest survey by TAPRI (The Australian Population Research Institute). The survey finds that 70 percent of Australians have rejected the annual net migration of 240,000 people prior to COVID-19 as too high. More significantly, 69 percent

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Bigger cities less safe for girls

Growing cities have many problems but not least is the growing insecurity and exploitation experienced by girls, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA bases this on the report by Plan International called Unsafe in the City that focusses on five cities including Sydney. The report states that: “As our cities’ populations grow, we are

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SPA takes on liz allen, Australia’s extinction crisis, and revamps our popforum

President message: e-news, Oct 012018 SPA’s activism on your behalf continues with our submission to the Senate Environment Committee’s inquiry into ‘Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis’. You can read it here: https://population.org.au/articles/2018-09-18/spas-submission-senate-environment-committees-inquiry-australias-extinction. In April communication within SPA’s Yahoo groups became all but impossible, and as a consequence 80 or so members who are part of PopForum

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