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SUMMARY:PUBLIC SEMINAR - “Population pressures in the Pacific”
DESCRIPTION:Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture\, 15 Blackall St\, Barton ACT \n1.30 to 5pm Saturday 14 April 2018\n  \nSpeakers – first session: \nDr Chris McMurray – ‘Population Pressure in the Pacific: not just a matter of numbers’ \nSince 1982 Chris McMurray has held various teaching and visiting appointments in ANU’s School of Demography. From 1998 until 2002 she Headed the Demography Program at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in New Caledonia\, and since then has been a free-lance consultant working on Pacific population and socio-economic development. \n  \nDr Bryant Allen – ‘Population growth and sustainable food production in PNG’ \nBryant Allen is an Honorary Associate Professor in the department of Pacific Affairs\, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Among his main research interests are food security and shifting cultivation systems in Papua New Guinea. He continues to visit Papua New Guinea and in 2016 spent five weeks in the East Sepik village he first lived in for 15 months in 1971 and 1972. \n  \nMs Rarawa Amberoti – ‘How climate change will affect Kiribati’ \nRarawa Amberoti is from Kiribati and studying for a Master of Climate Change at ANU. \n  \nAfternoon tea: 3 – 3.30pm \n  \nSpeakers – second session \nSenator Claire Moore – ‘Population Pressures in the Pacific’ \nClaire Moore is Labor Senator for Queensland. In July 2016\, she was appointed Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific. She is active on a number of Parliamentary committees. \n  \nDr Joanne Epp – ‘Population\, Family Planning and Potential’ \nJoanne Epp is a senior health economist with extensive international experience in economics\, research and policy analysis including work at the World Bank\, UNFPA\, NSW Treasury\, KPMG\, and the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy.   She has been a Women’s Plans Foundation Trustee and Board Member since 2013. \nPanel of all speakers \n  \n\nSeminar organised by Sustainable Population Australia to mark its 30th birthday. \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/public-seminar-population-pressures-pacific/
CATEGORIES:ACT,SPA Event Notices
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180414T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180414T103000
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SUMMARY:SPA 30th Anniversary national AGM and afternoon seminar
DESCRIPTION:SPA was founded in 1988 in Canberra under the name Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population. It is appropriate that we celebrate our 30th birthday in the same city! \n  \nDate: 14 April\, 2018.  AGM begins: 11am (come at 10.30am for morning tea). \n  \nVenue: Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture\, 15 Blackall Street\, Barton\, ACT. \n  \nAfternoon seminar: ‘Population Pressures in the Pacific’ (1.30pm to 5pm)\, including afternoon tea\, featuring a number of speakers including Senator Claire Moore. Senator Moore is the shadow minister for International Development and the Pacific and vice-chair of the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development. \n  \nAll welcome. Please bring friends and non-members for the afternoon seminar.. $5 donation at the door. \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/spa-30th-anniversary-national-agm-and-afternoon-seminar/
CATEGORIES:ACT,SPA Event Notices
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180224T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180224T170000
DTSTAMP:20201020T103326Z
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SUMMARY:Partnering: Strength through alliance
DESCRIPTION:The SPA NSW branch will be hosting its first event of 2018\, on the theme of partnering. It will be an afternoon of speakers\, discussion and audience input into NSW SPA activities. For those who will be in NSW on the weekend of the 24th Feb\,  this will be a very worthwhile event to attend. \n  \nSPA seeks to form mutually supportive alliances with other organisations whose values are in line / overlap with SPA’s. We see partnering as enabling for all parties\, through co-operation in areas where there are the same or similar aims. To this end\, we are hosting an afternoon of speakers and discussion. \n  \nWe have invited Maggie Chen from the international youth organisation AIESEC\, and Alice Oppen (a SPA member) from Women’s Plans Foundation to give us an insight into the work of their organisations. There will be opportunity to ask questions. \nFollowing an afternoon tea break there will be a facilitated session to enable you to have input into NSW SPA’s activities\, including what we can do to support members. \n  \nSave the date and talk with friends into coming along. \nDetails: \nSaturday 24 February\, Arrive 1.45pm for 2.00pm – 5.00pm \nSydney Mechanics’ School of Arts \n280 Pitt Street\, Sydney \nTo help us with catering\, please email RSVP by 17 February. \nEnquiries: Nola Stewart   nst332769@bigpond.com \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/partnering-strength-through-alliance/
CATEGORIES:NSW,SPA Event Notices
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180212
DTSTAMP:20201020T103427Z
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SUMMARY:SPA at Sustainable Living Festival 2018
DESCRIPTION:In what is now a yearly tradition\, Sustainable Population Australia will be at Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) in February. \n  \nVolunteers from the Victoria and Tasmania branch will be holding a SPA information stall during the SLF Big Weekend.  The Big Weekend runs from 9 – 11 February at Melbourne’s Federation Square and Birrarung Marr. \nWith thousands of people attending the Big Weekend\, this is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for the branch to reach out to the wider community on the issue of population. \n  \nOur enthusiastic volunteers and members have been working hard behind the scenes in the lead up to this year’s festival in planning the stall the key messages to share to the public.  The stall will also be selling books written by past and former members of SPA such as Growing For Broke by Peter North\, Dynamic Balance by Martin Tye and Rules of Animal and Human Populations by Sheila Newman. \n  \nFind out more about the SLF Big Weekend here \n  \nSPA members Michael Bayliss and Mark Allen will also be running at workshop Town Planning Response to Climate Change as part of the Sustainable Living Festival. \n  \nAt the workshop you can learn about how current town planning models affect the environment. We’ll discuss ways to change town planning systems and communities to reduce their environmental impact. \n  \nThe impacts of population growth on our town planning system will be highlighted and discussed in depth. \n  \nWhen 23rd of February from 6:30pm to 8:00pm \nWhere Michael’s intentional community home in Preston\, Melbourne \nStay to watch the the documentary Lamnas – UK’s first planned EcoVillage at 08:30pm. \n  \nExperience tells us this workshop is a great way to introduce the importance of town planning and population issues to people who are new to these ideas\, particularly for younger people who are feeling disaffected by the current property market. \n  \nWe encourage SPA members to pass on information about the workshop to anyone who they feel may benefit from attending. \n  \nFind more about the workshop here. \nBook tickets click here. Please note that this workshop is by donation on arrival. \n  \nWe would also like to draw attention to the fact that one of the key speakers for this year’s SLF\, Paul Hawken\, is a strong advocate for global population sustainability\, where his Project Drawdown has evaluated that reducing fertility is one of the biggest and most cost-effective contribution to emissions reduction. \n  \nFind out more about Paul and the rest of the Sustainable Living Festival at their site here. \n  \nIf you are around in Melbourne during any of these events over February and would like to come along to support or say hello.  We’d love to see you. \n  \n\n\nFlyer:\n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/spa-sustainable-living-festival-2018/
CATEGORIES:SPA Event Notices,VIC/TAS
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SUMMARY:Notice of national SPA AGM 2017 and afternoon seminar
DESCRIPTION:This year the NSW Branch of SPA is hosting the National AGM of SPA in Sydney at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA)\, 280 Pitt St Sydney\, in the Mitchell Theatre (Level 1) on Saturday 29th April. \n  \nCurrent members are welcome to participate in the AGM at 10am. All members of the public are welcome to the afternoon forum: “Population – the way forward” at 1pm. This will include speakers James Ward (incoming national president) and Graham Wood (NSW branch president). \n  \nHope to see many of you there! \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/notice-national-spa-agm-2017-and-afternoon-seminar/
CATEGORIES:ACT,NSW,QLD,SA/NT,SPA Event Notices,VIC/TAS,WA
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20170328T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20170628T193000
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SUMMARY:Program for public meetings of SPA-SA/NT March-June 2017
DESCRIPTION:All events are in the Seminar Room\, ground floor\, Conservation Council of SA\, 111 Franklin St\, Adelaide City \n  \n\n\n\n\nDate\n“SPA Review” Event\nSpeaker\nBook and Blog Alert\n\n\nTues 28 March 7.30pm\nThe Arrival of the Anthropocene\nJohn Tons\nMichael Lardelli\n\n\nWed 3 May 7.30 pm\nUsing the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) to present a case for an end to population growth in Australia. \nPlus a report on the Ecological Economics Conference\, Adelaide\, Jan 2017\nPeter Martin\ntbc\n\n\nWed May 31 7.30 pm\nEnergy and the Wealth of Nations \nUnderstanding the Biophysical Economy\, by Charles Hall. \nThis (expensive) book is reviewed at http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-06-11/energy-and-wealth-nations/\nMichael Lardelli\ntbc\n\n\nWed June 28 7.30 pm\nSupply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution\, by Brian Czech.\nJohn Coulter\ntbc\n\n\n\n\n  \nSPA-SA/NT holds monthly ‘SPA Review’ nights at which books and other materials that have strongly influenced members are outlined and discussed. An innovation for 2017 will be a 5-min ‘Book and Blog Alert’ segment when certain key papers\, postings or other information is reported and links provided. Note that volunteers to present this Alert at the May and June nights are still needed. Members\, friends and other members of the public are welcome\, and there is no charge. Refreshments are provided. \n  \nFor more details contact SA-NT branch president Peter Martin (0417 776 494\, poitgm@hotmail.com)\, or secretary Dr Michael Lardelli (michael.lardelli@adelaide.edu.au). \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/program-public-meetings-spa-sant-march-june-2017/
CATEGORIES:SA/NT
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20170311T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20170311T140000
DTSTAMP:20201106T020655Z
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SUMMARY:Julian Cribb on Surviving the 21st century
DESCRIPTION:Humanity’s ten great challenges and how we can overcome them\n  \nTIME:  2pm Saturday 11th March \n  \nVENUE:  HAGSOC room\,  Cook Community Hub\,  41 Templeton Street\,  Cook \nCanberrra ACT \n  \nJulian Cribb is a Canberra author and science communicator.  Surviving the 21st Century is his ninth book.  Following The Coming Famine (2010) and Poisoned Planet (2014)\, it is the third in his trilogy about how humans can overcome the existential threats our success has brought upon us.
URL:https://population.org.au/events/julian-cribb-surviving-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:ACT
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170213
DTSTAMP:20201110T064921Z
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Population Australia at Sustainable Living Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Victoria and Tasmania branch will be making our presence felt during Victoria’s Sustainable Living Festival this month.  During the Big Weekend 10 – 12 of February\, we will be having a stall near Federation Square Melbourne.  Volunteer branch members will be actively engaging with the wider public on population sustainability and its relation to environmental issues. \nThe branch president will also be speaking during the Big Weekend on Friday the 10th on the topic  “Environmentalism and Population – why environmentalists cannot ignore the impact of population”.  Please find the link here to the SLF page to find out more.  This talk will follow on many of the themes that Michael addressed in a recent co-written article in the New Matilda \n  \nIf you are in Melbourne and interested in attending the Sustainable Living Festival\, we would be thrilled to see you there. \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/sustainable-population-australia-sustainable-living-festival/
CATEGORIES:VIC/TAS
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20161104T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20161104T183000
DTSTAMP:20201116T204055Z
CREATED:20161022T205831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T204055Z
UID:1346-1478284200-1478284200@population.org.au
SUMMARY:Ockham's razor - Questioning growth
DESCRIPTION:Every day we hear politicians\, economists and media commentators telling us how important it is to grow our economy and that the faster it grows\, the better off we are all going to be. But how credible is this plan for perpetual growth\, considering that many of the resources we use are finite in nature? \nHave we all been brainwashed into thinking that more and more growth is the answer to all our problems? Could it be that the myopic pursuit of growth at all costs now is the problem? \nThis public forum may raise more questions than it answers so come along with your thinking caps on as we try to trim away some long-held assumptions and get to the truth about the ideology of growth and where it’s taking us. \nSpeakers: Dr Haydn Washington\, Dr Kerryn Higgs.\nCompered by Quentin Dempster \nFRIDAY NOVEMBER 4\, 6.30pm\nUNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (UTS)\nLecture theatre 5C.01.031\nBlock C level 1\n1-59 Quay St Haymarket \nEntry by donation \n  \n\n\nFlyer:
URL:https://population.org.au/events/ockhams-razor-questioning-growth/
CATEGORIES:NSW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160423T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160423T160000
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SUMMARY:National Annual General Meeting and afternoon seminar
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n  \nSaturday April 23rd  2016 \n  \nAt: Hawthorn Arts Centre\, Zelman room \n  \n360 Burwood Rd\, Hawthorn VIC 3122 \n  \n10. a.m. AGM and election of office bearers \n  \n12.00 p.m. Lunch will be served at the venue for those who order it in advance.   This is a great opportunity to meet other SPA members from the branch and from other states of Australia including members of the National Executive. \n  \nIt is a “Working lunch: a selection of point sandwiches served with sliced fresh fruit \, tea coffee and refreshments   $19.50 per head” To order lunch \, please contact Sue James at suzannejames3@bigpond.com or on 98824449  or 0419 564168 to organise payment by 13 .4.2016 \n  \n1.00p.m.- 4.00pm.  An Afternoon seminar on the topic of \n  \n“Attitudes and communication in population and the environment” \n  \n( including afternoon tea) The seminar will feature the following speakers\, Mark Allen\, Population\, Permaculture and Planning\, spokesperson Dr. Katharine Betts \, population sociologist\, Hon Kelvin Thomson MP\,environmentalist and high profile sustainable population advocate and  Victorian treasure\, comedian\,  Rod Quantock \n  \nContact: Jill Quirk jillq@optusnet.com.au  – 0409742927 \n  \n             Jenny Warfe warfej@bigpond.com – 0405825769 \n  \n\n  \n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/national-annual-general-meeting-and-afternoon-seminar/
CATEGORIES:ACT,NSW,QLD,SA/NT,SPA Event Notices,VIC/TAS,WA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151121T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151121T170000
DTSTAMP:20201110T064123Z
CREATED:20151102T033519Z
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SUMMARY:2015 Sustainable Population Seminar - Population Dialogue II (NSW)
DESCRIPTION:2015 Sustainable Population Seminar – Population Dialogue II  \n  \nPopulation and Consumption – The Sustainability Dialogue\n  \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA)\, 280 Pitt St\, Sydney\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nDate: Saturday 21st November 2015\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nTime: 9am to 5pm (Register from 8.30am )\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nCost: $30 / $20 (includes Lunch\, Morning and Afternoon teas)\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nRegistration: Via Try Booking\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nFor more information and to register\, go to: \n  \nhttp://www.nature.org.au/campaigns/sustainable-population/ \n  \nEnquiries: email Nola Stewart at nst332769@bigpond.com \n \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/2015-sustainable-population-seminar-population-dialogue-ii-nsw/
CATEGORIES:NSW
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151119T190000
DTSTAMP:20201110T063925Z
CREATED:20151024T140809Z
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SUMMARY:Soap operas\, it turns out\, can change the world (South Australia)
DESCRIPTION:Bill Ryerson \n  \nPresident\, Population Media Center \n  \nThursday 19th November at 7pm \n  \nConservation Council of SA\, 111 Franklin St Adelaide \n  \nSoap operas\, it turns out\, can change the world \n  \nThe Population Media Center works in 43 countries changing behaviour to enhance the health and welfare of people using culturally appropriate health\, human rights\, environmental and economic information. It uses long-running serialised radio and TV dramas (the Sabido method) developed using local writers\, actors and production staff. PMC is a non-profit\, international non-governmental organisation which strives to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. \n  \nPMC’s work has produced dramatic results; its method is incredibly cost effective. Its approach builds in-country\, in-community capacity and supports all local writers and producers. PMC knows that the planet and its resources are finite and it cannot support an infinite population of humans or any other species\, yet everyday 225\,000 more hungry people sit at the global dinner table. PMC offers population as part of the solution to many global challenges. It changes population projections by working to empower women\, men and children by addressing health and human rights issues\, like ending child marriage and allowing girls to access education. \n  \nTo educators\, social welfare advocates\, those concerned with sexual equity\, racial\, ethnic or religious tension\, incitement to terrorism\, environmental/ economic issues; the work\, methods and results of the PMC are highly relevant to all those concerned with bringing about necessary and pressing social change. \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/soap-operas-it-turns-out-can-change-world-south-australia/
CATEGORIES:SA/NT
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151114T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151114T140000
DTSTAMP:20201110T063642Z
CREATED:20151102T031428Z
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SUMMARY:How Soap Operas can change the world! (Western Australia)
DESCRIPTION:Sustainable Population Australia\, Western Australian Branch invites you\, your family\, friends and guests to;\n  \n\n  \nA Once in a lifetime opportunity for Perth People.\n  \n\n  \nThe visit of Bill Ryerson on November 14th.\n  \n\n  \n“How Soap Operas can change the world”.\n  \n\n  \nSaturday\, 14th November at 2pm\n  \n\n  \nSocial Sciences Lecture Theatre\n  \n\n  \nUniversity of WA.\n  \n\n  \n\n  \nThis is free public seminar\, open to all.\n  \n\n  \nSo please come and invite your friends and relatives\n  \n\n  \nSee the campus map at http://www.uwa.edu.au/contact/map\n  \n\n  \nfor location of the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre and Parking arrangements.\n  \n\n  \nSee SPAWA’s website for further details at http://www.populationWA.net\n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/how-soap-operas-can-change-world-western-australia/
CATEGORIES:WA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150307T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150307T170000
DTSTAMP:20201128T104646Z
CREATED:20150215T172129Z
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SUMMARY:Population and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph? - Free public seminar
DESCRIPTION: Free Public Seminar \n  \nPopulation and Ageing: Disaster or Triumph? \n  \n7 March\, 1 pm – 5 pm \n  \nBradley Forum\, Hawke Centre\, Uni SA\, West Campus\, 55 North Tce \n  \nIn recent years it has become common wisdom that an ageing population poses a problem for Australia. This view has been strongly promoted by some business interests that seek immigration as an answer. This seminar will explore the parameters of ageing and whether an ageing population is indeed a problem\, an advantage or some of each. \n  \nDr Katharine Betts\, Adjunct Professor of Sociology\, Swinburne University \n  \nChallenges and benefits of an ageing population \n  \n The demographic transition is a reproductive revolution. It has worked its way through European populations and many Asian nations. In all instances it has beneficially increased the efficiency of generational replacement. This revolution presents challenges but compared with continual growth these are trivial. The revolution means a more efficient use of resources\, more incentive to invest in education\, and assuming low net migration\, more inherited wealth and less competition for positional goods. Claims by the growth lobby that they can engineer youthfulness via high migration are misleading; high migration would make Australia much bigger but only marginally younger and that only temporarily. \n  \nAssociate Professor Philip Lawn\, Business School\, Flinders University\,  \n  \nMyths about superannuation and the intergenerational debate \n  \nSuperannuation need not impose a large tax burden on the working population. The best form of compulsory superannuation is the public investment in sustainable productive capacity to support a decent pension for all retirees. The secret to providing for future retirees is: (a) ensuring the economy can be ecologically sustained; and (b) boosting the productivity of the working population\, which requires adequate investment in education\, training\, health\, R&D\, natural capital\, and low-emissions and energy-efficient critical infrastructure. \n  \nDr Jane O’Sullivan\, Agriculural research scientist\, University of  Queensland with particular interest in demography and food security \n  \nA Sustainable Future cannot be reached through the pursuit of youthfulness \n  \nJane O’Sullivan examines the claimed impacts of an ageing society\, and of the measures promoted to address ageing\, and finds the cure is far worse than the disease. Indeed\, the economic and environmental impacts of an older society are generally beneficial\, and contribute to more sustainable prosperity. \n  \nThis Seminar is sponsored by Sustainable Population Australia\, a national environment organisation committed to a sustainable Australia in a sustainable world with a primary emphasis on population \n  \nVisit: population.org.au \n  \nRSVP: John Coulter 08/8388 2153 or jrpfc@bigpond.com \n  \nDownload pdf of the Symposium Flyer \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/population-and-ageingdisaster-or-triumph-free-public-seminar/
CATEGORIES:SA/NT
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20141108T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20141108T140000
DTSTAMP:20201128T104441Z
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SUMMARY:How big for Sydney?
DESCRIPTION:An important public meeting for concerned Sydney residents \nGuest speakers: \n  \n\n\n\nJack Mundey – legendary  activist\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nJill Green – STEP\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nTony Recsei – Save Our Suburbs\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWilliam Bourke – Sustainable Population Party\n\n\n\n  \n  \nCome and ask your own questions: \n2 pm\, Saturday November 8\, Glebe Town Hall \n  \n– Should Sydney residents have a voice in how big their city gets? \n– What are the risks associated with adding another 3.5 million people to Sydney? \n– Do developers and big business have too much influence on state and federal \npolicymakers? \n– Is it possible to plan successfully in a city growing by 1\,500 people per week? \n– Why are sprawl and high density presented as the only options? \n– Will a population of 8 million transform Sydney into a vibrant global hub or spoil \na city that was once a fantastic place to live? \n– Are extreme levels of housing unaffordability placing an unfair burden on our city’s \nyoung people? \n– What will be the impacts upon our surrounding native flora and fauna? \nThis is a free event but registration is requested\, visit www.trybooking.com/102567 \nPresented by Sustainable Population Australia \n 
URL:https://population.org.au/events/how-big-sydney/
CATEGORIES:NSW
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SUMMARY:World Vasectomy Day\, October 18 2013
DESCRIPTION:SPA is supporting the excellent initiative of World Vasectomy Day \n  \nhttp://riaus.org.au/events/world-vasectomy-day-2013/ \n  \nEvent Information: \nWhen: Friday 18 October 2013 \nTime: 1:00pm to 7:30pm\nWhere: The Science Exchange\, Adelaide \n  \nHigh profile vasectomist\, Dr Doug Stein\, will perform vasectomies on volunteers while fielding questions from the audience. He will be joined by renowned thinkers\, academics and activists to debate the future of our planet. The event will be staged in front of a live audience at The Science Exchange in Adelaide and an international online audience.
URL:https://population.org.au/events/world-vasectomy-day-october-18-2013/
CATEGORIES:SA/NT
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SUMMARY:Fenner Conference 2013 - Summing Up
DESCRIPTION:Declaration \nIn Word Doc form\, Declaration.docx\, and below. \nRecognising \n\nthe inextricable links between population\, resources and climate change\nthat human economic systems are dependent on natural ecological systems\nthat a sustainable future depends on widespread ecological literacy\nthat we are fast approaching the limits to resource (particularly oil) availability and scale of use\nthat we face the prospect of catastrophic climate change that will affect society and the economy irrevocably\nthat the world must keep four-fifths of fossil fuels in the ground\, and\nthat global population continues to grow by 80 million\, and Australia’s by 400\,000 annually of which 60 per cent comes from net overseas migration\n\n…we therefore call on Australians and their governments to \n\ndevelop policies to stabilise Australia’s population\nend the destruction of habitat\ndevelop plans to maintain domestic power\, food production and distribution systems\, and water and sanitation systems as fossil fuels peak and decline\ndecarbonise our energy supply as a matter of urgency and develop clean energy renewable systems\nstop coal exports and end subsidies for exploration of oil\, gas and coal\nincorporate the principle of ecological sustainability into core curricula at all levels\nmake contraceptives more freely available and significantly increase the family planning component within Australia’s foreign aid budget.\n\n  \nPresentations \nPresentations from each of the speakers at the Fenner Conference 2013 are available below. They are all in Microsoft Powerpoint format (either ppt or pptx). Some of them are reasonably large files. \n\nBob Birrell (100 KB)\nChris Dickman (10 MB)\nDavid Lindenmayer (14 MB)\nGary Jones (5 MB)\nHaydn Washington (5 MB)\nHugh Possingham (700 KB)\nIan Dunlop (6 MB)\nJane O’Sullivan (1.5 MB)\nMichael Lardelli (10 MB)\nMichael Raupach (14 B)\nRhondda Dickson (10 MB)\nSimon Michaux (7 MB)\nTony McMichael (9 MB)\n\n  \nConference Audio \nWarning: very large files! \n\n\n\nDay 1: Part 1 (80 MB)\nDay 1: Part 2 (92 MB)\nDay 1: Part 3 (91 MB)\nDay 1: Part 4 (101 MB)\nDay 2: Part 1 (95 MB)\nDay 2: Part 2 (104 MB)\nDay 2: Part 3 (90 MB)\nDay 2: Part 4 (46 MB)\n\n\n\n  \nInterviews of speakers \nSee http://fuzzylogicon2xx.podbean.com/2013/10/13/fast-burn/ – thank you Rod Taylor! \nThe interview is of Drs Jane O’Sullivan\, Haydn Washington\, Simon Michaux and Michael Lardelli.Speakers’ Biographies \nKeynote Speaker: Professor Paul Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University\, Stanford\, California. He was a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation\, and in raising issues of population\, resources\, and the environment as matters of public policy. He has published 43 books\, 13 of which are co-authored with Anne Ehrlich\, and more than 600 scientific papers. He rose to international prominence with his 1968 book\, The Population Bomb. He has received several honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards including in 2001 the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. \nDr Bob Birrell is Reader in Sociology at Monash University. He was the founding director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research (CPUR) at Monash University and founder and Joint-Editor of the demographic journal People and Place. He has advised successive Australian governments on immigration policy\, most recently as part of the Evaluation of the General Skilled Migration Categories which reported in 2006. His work covers the environmental\, social and economic implications of population growth in Australia. Recent publications include Immigration and the Resources Boom Mark 2\, CPUR\, 2011\, The End of Affordable Housing in Melbourne? CPUR\, 2012 and Immigration Overshoot\, CPUR\, 2012. \nDr Paul Collins is an historian\, broadcaster and writer. A Catholic priest for thirty-three years\, he resigned from the active priestly ministry in 2001 due to a dispute with the Vatican over his book Papal Power (1997). He is the author of thirteen books the most recent of which\, The Birth of the West\, was published in New York in February 2013. He is well known as a commentator on Catholicism and the papacy and he also has a strong interest in ethics\, environmental and population issues. He has a Master’s degree in theology (Th.M.) from Harvard University\, and a PhD in history from the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra. \nProfessor Suzanne Cory\, AC is one of Australia’s most distinguished molecular biologists.  She gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge and then continued studies at the University of Geneva before returning to Melbourne in 1971. From 1996 to 2009 she was Director of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Professor of Medical Biology of The University of Melbourne.  She is currently a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research has had a major impact in the fields of immunology and cancer and her scientific achievements have attracted numerous honours and awards.  In 2010 she was elected President of the Australian Academy of Science. \nJulian Cribb is an author\, journalist\, editor and science communicator. He is principal of Julian Cribb & Associates who provide specialist consultancy in the communication of science\, agriculture\, food\, mining\, energy and the environment. His career includes appointments as newspaper editor\, scientific editor for The Australian newspaper\, director of national awareness for CSIRO\, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels\, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 8000 articles\, 3000 media releases and eight books. He has received 32 awards for journalism. His internationally-acclaimed book The Coming Famine explores the question of whether we can feed humanity through the mid-century peak in numbers and food demand. \nDr Richard Denniss is Executive Director of The Australia Institute\, a public policy think tank based in Canberra. An economist by training\, Richard has worked for the past 20 years in a variety of policy and political roles. In recent years he has been at the forefront of the national policy debates surrounding climate change policy and the Australian mining boom. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. Richard has published extensively in academic journals\, has a fortnightly column in The Canberra Times and Australian Financial Review and was the co-author of the best selling Affluenza (with Dr Clive Hamilton). \nProfessor Chris Dickman has long been fascinated by patterns in biological diversity and in the factors that affect it. His current work focuses on biota in arid environments and on a range of other projects in applied conservation and management. An ARC Professorial Fellow\, Chris has been a prolific trainer of postgraduates\, supervising 42 Honours\, 37 Masters and 52 PhD students over the last 25 years. He has written or edited 20 books and monographs and authored a further 330 journal articles and book chapters. He is the recipient of several national and international awards\, and was the inaugural chair of the NSW Government Scientific Committee from 1996 – 2002. \nDr Rhondda Dickson has been Chief Executive of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) since June 2011. She has over twenty years’ experience working with states and territories in the development and implementation of natural resource management policies. Since joining MDBA\, Dr Dickson has led the development of a significant piece of national water reform—the Basin Plan. Her focus has been on striking a genuine balance between the environmental\, social and economic needs of the Basin and its people. Prior to joining MDBA\, she was closely involved in the development of the National Action Plan for Water Quality and Salinity\, national forest policy and national approaches to vegetation management. \nIan Dunlop is a Cambridge educated engineer with a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance\, corporate responsibility and sustainability. He is a former international oil\, gas and coal industry executive.  He chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88\, chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001.  Mr Dunlop is a Director of Australia21\, Chairman of Safe Climate Australia\, a Member of the Club of Rome and Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development. He advises internationally on climate\, energy and sustainability. \nMajor General the Honourable Michael Jeffery AC graduated from the Royal Military College into Infantry\, serving operationally in Malaya\, Borneo\, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam\, where he was awarded the Military Cross and the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.  From 1993-2000 he was the Governor of Western Australia. From 2003 to 2008 he served as Governor-General of Australia where his key interests were in youth\, education and landscape regeneration. He is Chairman of Future Directions International (which he founded)\, Outcomes Australia\, and Soils for Life and is patron of numerous charitable organisations.  He was recently appointed by the Prime Minister as the National Advocate for Soil Health and as the Australian Envoy for The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust. \nDr Michael Lardelli received his Ph.D. in Developmental Genetics from the U.K. Council for National Academic Awards in 1991. After six years of postdoctoral work in Sweden he returned to Australia in 1997 and is currently Senior Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Adelaide where his research focuses on understanding the molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease. He has been active in spreading awareness of peak oil since 2004 and worked with Prof. Kjell Aleklett to produce the English version of his book\, Peeking at Peak Oil published in 2012. He is currently a member of the executive committee of SPA. \nProfessor David Lindenmayer is Professor of Ecology at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. He is a leading conservation biologist\, contributing significantly to the understanding of biodiversity\, both within Australia and around the world. He specialises in establishing large-scale\, long-term research programs that are underpinned by rigorous experimental design\, detailed sampling and innovative statistical analyses. David Lindenmayer has published 35 books and over 820 scientific articles on wildlife ecology\, forest ecology and management\, woodland ecology and conservation biology. He has worked on biodiversity conservation for more than 30 years. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2008 and has won numerous environmental and conservation awards. \nProfessor Gary Jones is Chief Executive of eWater\, a not for profit river basin management and modelling organisation (formerly eWater CRC)\, and an Adjunct Professor with the University of Canberra\, Institute of Applied Ecology. He is also Chairman of the International Riverfoundation\, a charitable organisation dedicated to the restoration and protection of the world’s rivers.  Previously he was a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Australia\, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne\, UK and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT in Boston USA. He is an author of over 100 scientific publications on topics including the chemistry and ecology of toxic blue-green algae\, and environmental flows science and management. \nProfessor Ian Lowe AO is an emeritus professor in the School of Science at Griffith University and is president of the Australian Conservation Foundation. His principal research interests are in policy decisions influencing the use of energy\, science and technology; energy use in industrialised countries; large-scale environmental issues and sustainable development. In 1988 he was Director of the Commission for the Future. He chaired an advisory council that produced the first national state of the environment report in 1996\, and delivered the ABC Boyer Lectures in 1991. Professor Lowe was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2002 for contributions to environmental science and won the Eureka Prize for the promotion of science. \nProfessor Tony McMichael AO is Emeritus Professor (Population Health) at ANU. His primary research and policy interests relate to social and environmental influences on health. His work has spanned diet/nutrition and disease\, urban air pollution\, and environmental lead impacts on child development. Since 1990 he has focused on the population health impacts of human-induced environmental changes\, especially climate change. He is an elected member of the US National Academies of Science; has co-chaired scientific assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and chairs a WHO expert group on joint influences of environment\, climate and agriculture in infectious disease emergence. He has published widely on these topics. \nDr Simon Michaux has a Bach App Sc in Physics and Geology and a PhD in mining engineering.  He has worked in the mining industry for 18 years in various capacities. He has worked in industry funded mining research\, coal exploration and in the commercial sector in an engineering company as a consultant.  Areas of technical interest have been: Geometallurgy; mineral processing in comminution\, flotation and leaching; blasting; mining geology; geophysics; feasibility studies; mining investment; and industrial sustainability. \nSharyn Munro is a ‘literary activist’\, reaching beyond the converted with her personal form of nature and environmental writing. Essayist\, award-winning short story writer and author of three non-fiction books\, she has deep sympathy for the people dispossessed and the places destroyed by the resources rush. Sharyn lives in a solar- powered mudbrick cabin on her Upper Hunter wildlife refuge\, where her books The Woman on the Mountain and Mountain Tails are set.  Concern for the future of her grandchildren drove her to research and write the very different Rich Land\, Wasteland – how coal is killing Australia\, covering coal and CSG (coal seam gas). \nMark O’Connor is a poet and environmentalist.   He is an editor of the Oxford University Press textbook Protected Area Management\, author of This Tired Brown Land and co-author of Overloading Australia and of Big Australia? Yes/No (Pantera Press 2012).  He has published more than a dozen books of verse and received several awards. With Judith Wright\, he founded Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population.  He has taught at James Cook University\, University of Aarhus\, and the Australian National University\, and has been the ANU’s H C Coombs Fellow\, and the Museum of Victoria’s Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellow. \nDr Jane O’Sullivan has had a career as an agricultural scientist\, with a focus on soil fertility management in the South Pacific and South East Asia.  She has long been aware of the impacts of population pressure on land resources\, and the need to match efforts to increase food production with efforts to limit demand.  Realising that population policy is based on economic claims rather than ecology\, she has been researching and writing about population economics since 2008. Her research has challenged widely attested beliefs about the ‘demographic transition’\, the impact of ageing on workforce and the ‘3Ps’ of population\, participation and productivity. She is most widely recognised for quantifying the infrastructure cost of population growth rate. \nProfessor Hugh Possingham is Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Ecology\, University of Queensland\, Director of The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and the Director of the National Environmental Research Program Hub. He also sits on 16 committees and boards outside the University including the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (founding member). He and Dr Barry Traill wrote “The Brigalow Declaration”\, used by Premier Beattie to stop land clearing in Queensland\, thereby securing at least 1 billion tonnes of CO2.  The Possingham lab developed the most widely used conservation planning software in the world – Marxan – which was used to underpin the \nrezoning of the Great Barrier Reef. \nDr Michael Raupach works on Earth System science\, carbon-climate-human interactions\, land-air interactions\, and fluid mechanics.  He is based at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science\, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering\, and the American Geophysical Union.  From 2000 to 2008 he was an inaugural co-chair of the Global Carbon Project of the Earth System Science Partnership; in 2010 he chaired the Expert Working Group reporting to the Prime Minister’s Science\, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) on “Challenges at Energy-Water-Carbon Intersections”; and in 2010-2013 he led the Australian Academy of Science project “Negotiating our future: living scenarios for Australia to 2050”. \nProfessor Roger Short completed his BVSc at the University of Bristol\, a Masters in Genetics at the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge where he was Reader in Reproductive Biology. In 1972 he was appointed Foundation Director of the Medical Research Council Unit of Reproductive Biology in Edinburgh. In 1982 he was appointed to a Personal Chair in Reproductive Biology at Monash University\, Melbourne\, Australia\, and in 1995 to a Professorial Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology\, University of Melbourne\, where he is now an Honorary Professorial Fellow. He has published over 350 scientific papers in a wide variety of scientific journals\, and “Ever Since Adam and Eve: the Evolution of Human Sexuality” (Cambridge University Press) in 1999. \nKelvin Thomson MP\, a former Member of the Victorian Parliament\, has been Federal Member for Wills since 1996. He held a number of Shadow portfolios during the Howard years including Shadow Environment Minister between 2001 and 2004 when he was responsible for Labor’s adoption of policies to tackle climate change including ratification of the Kyoto Protocol\, introduction of an emissions trading system\, and lifting the Renewable Energy Target. In 2009\, he kick-started a national debate concerning Australia’s population with a speech to Parliament and the release of a 14 Point Plan for Population Reform. He was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade in February 2013. \nDr Haydn Washington is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Studies\, UNSW. He is an environmental scientist and with a thirty five year history in environmental science. He has worked extensively within environmental non-government organisations\, including being a councillor on the ACF for four terms and secretary of the Colo Committee\, which led the campaign to create Wollemi National Park.  As an environmental writer\, he has written five books on the environment – Ecosolutions: environmental solutions for the world and Australia (1991)\, A sense of Wonder (2002)\, The Wilderness Knot (2009)\, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand (2011) and Human Dependence on Nature (2013). He is keenly interested in why societies deny environmental problems. \n\n\n\nBob_Birrell.pptx\nChris_Dickman.ppt\nDavid_Lindenmayer.ppt\nGary_Jones.pptx\nHaydn_Washington.ppt\nHugh_Possingham.pptx\nIan_Dunlop.pptx\nJane_OSullivan.pptx\nMichael_Lardelli.ppt\nMichael_Raupach.ppt\nRhondda_Dickson.pptx\nSimon_Michaux.pptx\nTony_McMichael.pptx\nFennerConference2013_Declaration.docx
URL:https://population.org.au/events/fenner-conference-2013/
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SUMMARY:Richard Heinberg's Canberra address
DESCRIPTION:Richard Heinberg’s address at the ANU in Canberra on the Friday 21 September was recorderd by Rod Taylor who has allowed us to link to that recording here. You can play it by using the player below or download it as an MP3 audio file to listen to later. Richard Heinberg’s Canberra Address: \n\nhttps://population.org.au/wp-content/uploads/1606/90/RichardHeinbergLecture21Sep2012.mp3\n\nDownload the MP3 from our copy’s location. Rod’s blog for the Fuzzy Logic Science Shown on Radio 2XX is at http://fuzzylogicon2xx.podbean.com/ and the Show’s Facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fuzzy-Logic/201994992233?v=wall. We thank Rod for his generosity!
URL:https://population.org.au/events/richard-heinbergs-canberra-address/
CATEGORIES:ACT
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