Town/Reg Planning

Sustainable Population Australia Discussion and GrowthBusters film screening

It’s Time for a Rational Discussion on Population Are you in Melbourne on June 28?  Register TODAY at Humanitix Australia’s State of the Environment report is blunt: our natural environment is in poor health and deteriorating, with population growth identified as a root cause. Our cities are becoming less liveable — housing affordability, road congestion

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Big, Thirsty Australia free talk on Water Security and the Environment

You are invited to a talk  on “Big, Thirsty Australia: how population growth threatens our water security and sustainability” – based on Sustainable Population Australia’s Discussion Paper of the same name.  This event is hosted by the South Australian and Northern Territory branch of Sustainable Population Australia GET YOUR TICKETS HERE   Authors Jonathan Sobels

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Making Australian Agriculture Sustainable: 2022 Fenner Conference

    This event has now passed.   However,  video recordings from the conference are now available.  These can be watched from the Fenner 2022 website (link here) or the Fenner 2022 YouTube channel (link here). You may also be interested in our retrospective of the conference at our website here. Australian agriculture today is largely unsustainable.

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OFFICIAL LAUNCH – population growth and infrastructure in Australia: the catch-up illusion

Official Launch with Professor the Hon. Bob Carr and Leith van Onselen, MacroBusiness Population growth and infrastructure in Australia: the catch-up illusion A new report commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia Tuesday 26 November 2019, 10am The Metcalfe Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney This is a FREE event. Includes morning tea. RSVP your attendence at

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Fixing public transport

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The problem with public transport, we’re often told, is the shape of our cities: Australian sprawl is impossible to service effectively with trains and trams and buses. So we end up reliant on the car and stuck in traffic. If only Australia’s capitals were more compact, more closely settled, more, I don’t know, European! Then

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