Sustainable Population Australia

PopForum is a vehicle for email discussion of population related issues by members of SPA (only). Those who use this forum consent to the following terms:

1. Matters raised and discussed in this forum shall relate to the vision, mission and objectives of Sustainable Population Australia. These are:

Vision: A relationship between humans and the natural environment which ensures the integrity and sustainability of the Earth’s life support systems, the on-going evolution of natural living systems and the well-being of every person in a sustainable population.

Mission: To establish Australia as a global model of, and to assist other nations toward, a sustainable ecological life-support system, retention of species diversity and human wellbeing, by influencing public debate and policy with particular emphasis on population size.

2.2: Objectives

The Association exists to pursue the following objectives:

2.2.1 To contribute to the public awareness of the limits of Australian population growth from ecological and social viewpoints.

2.2.2 To promote awareness that the survival of an ecologically sustainable population depends in the long-term on its renewable resource base.

2.2.3 To promote policies that will lead to the stabilisation, and then to reduction, of Australia's population by encouraging low fertility and low migration.

2.2.4 To promote urban and rural life-styles and practices that are in harmony with the realities of the Australian environment, its resource base and its biodiversity.

2.2.5 To advocate low immigration rates while rejecting any selection of immigrants based on race.

2.2.6 To promote policies that will lead to stabilisation, and then to reduction, of global population.

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3. Emails shall not discuss matters of governance of SPA.

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