SPA’s own Communications Manager – Michael Bayliss – was interviewed by the Overpopulation Podcast The overpopulation podcast is run by USA based organization ‘World Population Balance‘ who took the brave step to do the only known podcast anywhere that focuses on population. Michael was interviewed just after the bush fire disaster and just as COVID-19 …
Immigration –TAPRI survey Our friends at TAPRI (The Australian Population Research Institute) have released the results of their 2018 annual survey, coincidentally and unfortunately on the day the federal election was called – so there was only one story in town that day. That’s a pity because their report is about an issue which will …
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 …
SPA Takes On Liz Allen, Australia’s Extinction Crisis, and Revamps Our PopForum Read More »
Jenny Goldie This title was prompted by a recent question from a member of SPA, who wondered whether the considerable money he had donated over the years had been cost effective. It led to my reflecting on whether SPA has indeed made any progress over the past 29 years since the organisation was founded. Let’s …
Dick Smith, one of Australia’s most prominent population campaigners, addressed a rally outside the Adelaide Advertiser protesting press censorship especially on the issue of population and economic growth.
The video of his full speech is now available via Youtube.
Once there was a village with 10 families who shared a 1000 litre waste bin between them. This meant they could each put in 100 litres of waste before the bin was full. The waste collection truck would come each month and swap the bin with another 1000 litre bin. However one day the waste …
No question about it, Malcolm Turnbull is a pretty bright fellow, and therefore a welcome addition to a government not overburdened with them. He should certainly be smart enough to work out that his big job of saving water is being made so much the harder by substantial increases each year in the number of …
Rosslyn Beeby ("We need brighter ideas", February 21, p2) is right to call Malcolm Turnbull’s ban on incandescent light bulbs a "micro-step". Mr Turnbull estimates that by 2015, the ban will save 4 million tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere annually. What he doesn’t say is that by the same year, about another …
About Those Light Bulbs (Canberra Times 20070224) Read More »
I agree with Don Jordan (Letters, 12/3) in questioning Melbourne’s population growth but is it any more practical to move people to rural centres? You really wonder what political intelligence is at work when you see new estates going up in Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong, where there is no water. Nobody wants to question our …
The Real Problem is Too Many People (The Age 20070313) Read More »
Sir Nicholas Stern insists Australia must cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Labor agrees. That means that by 2050 each one of us will have to adjust our lifestyles so that we individually produce just 40 per cent of the emissions we are responsible for today. Doesn’t it? Well, not …
