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Supporting women, supporting the environment PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jane Addison   
Friday, 14 August 2009 17:19

Globally, women’s education is negatively correlated with birth rates (e.g. see http://www.prb.org/) Whilst acknowledging that a correlation is not necessarily causation, women that are educated are likely to have more information about reproductive control, are likely to have more power in their relationships with their partners and have access to other ways of finding support in retirement, personal identity and fulfilment. Financial support of global organisations that promote women’s empowerment and education, such as women’s education programmes and microfinance schemes, is likely to reduce the rate of population increase globally in the most humane way.
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Online forums for generating population debate PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jane Addison   
Thursday, 23 April 2009 08:25

SPA President, Sandra Kanck, was yesterday quoted in the ABC Online article ‘Australia needs one child policy – ex MP’ (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/22/2549917.htm). Despite the article’s length only being a few short paragraphs, it generated a significant amount of interest – online. Within 24 hours of the article being posted, 76 online response comments had been made. Many people categorically agreed with Sandra’s comments, such as K “I absolutely second that!!!” and Robertson “It’s about time we heard a politician state publicly that we should reduce population growth.” Others completely disagreed, Gregh “Another rather naive view from a politician from a defunct party” and, Andrew: “Scary stuff!”

 
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Immigration and the nation building and jobs plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by Katharine Betts   
Wednesday, 25 March 2009 02:42
 You may have seen the report by Bob Birrell and others on skilled migration mentioned in the media in February.
Essentially it's arguing that it's folly to be spending $42 billion on an economic stimulus package, ostensibly to protect jobs, while at the same time continuing to bring in very large numbers of migrants, temporary and permanent, who are selected on loosely defined employment grounds (skilled) and who often work for lower wages than locals.
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.- John Nichols - novelist (1940-)

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 Let’s talk about the national anthem: We do not have boundless plains to share!

25th January, 2010

Australia’s national anthem is outdated, incorrect and should be changed according to the environment group Sustainable Population Australia (SPA).

National President of SPA, Sandra Kanck, says “If we pause on Australia Day to reflect on our identity, our thoughts should turn to reforming the anthem.  It is an absolute nonsense to say that this continent has boundless plains to share, as is claimed in the second verse of the anthem." Read On!

 

SPA Conference 2008

On the 14th and 15th March 2008 Sustainable Population Australia Inc., held a very special Annual Conference. The Conference was the 20th Anniversary of AESP/SPA and was on the topic "Population, Peak Oil, Climate Change: their impact on the Millennium Development Goals".

The Conference was held at the Shine Dome, ANU Campus, Canberra.  To obtain links to the full list of speakers and videos of each of their presentations go to SPA Conference 2008

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