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Australia-India Migration Agreement confirms Albanese’s ‘Excessively Big Australia’

  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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‘Build Back Biodiversity’ by ending population growth – World Biodiversity Day

  If we want to ‘Build Back Biodiversity,’ the theme of World Biodiversity Day on 22 May, we need to end human population growth, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) lists 22 actions to help protect biodiversity, including no. 14: “Change one habit that is negative …

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Only much lower migration will improve migration outcomes: SPA

  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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Albanese Government declares immigration war on voters

  The Albanese government has been condemned for fuelling unprecedented population growth due to rocketing immigration. The President of Sustainable Population Australia, Jenny Goldie, was commenting on reports that Australia will experience the biggest two-year population surge in its history, with an extra 650,000 migrants this financial year and next, driving a 900,000 jump in …

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More people means more waste

  If the world is serious about dealing with the waste crisis, then stabilising populations everywhere is an essential part of the solution, according to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). March 30 is International Day of Zero Waste as declared by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2022. The UN recognised that the waste sector …

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Report shows government favouring overseas students over local ones

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called for an overhaul of university training in Australia in light of the latest report from The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI). The report The Skills Crisis, University Culpability and the Overseas Student Industry by Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy, reveals deep inequities in the number of training places …

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An end to population growth integral to environmental law reform

  Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has welcomed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s proposed reforms to Australia’s environmental laws but says they must include policies that lead to an end to population growth. Minister Plibersek was responding to the 2020 scathing criticism of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act by Graeme Samuel.  As part of the …

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