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The SPA AGM for 2012 will be held at 9:30am, April 14th at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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‘Preparing the nation, your community and family for peak oil and deflation in the coming economic environment.’

Monday 13 February, 7pm - 9pm
CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton
(turn up the hill at the roundabout in Clunies Ross Street)

Chaired by Dr Richard Denniss
Executive Director, The Australia Institute

I remember hearing those word from a very eminent scientist and thinking at the time; “How can that be? We are such a successful species that dominates the world.” And here we are at the end of 2011 and there are now 7 billion humans alive on the planet! How can we be gone?

The SPA Annual General Meeting will be held in Sydney, NSW on Saturday 14th April 2012 at The University of Technology Sydney.

At the meeting the elections for all elected SPA Committee positions will be held. Nominations for these positions are now called. The tenure for these positions is 12 months.

You can nominate for more than one position e.g. Secretary and Committee member. The positions are National President; Vice President; Meeting Secretary; Correspondence Secretary; Treasurer and three to five committee members.

• SPAExec AGM Nomination Form 2012.doc

SPA NSW President, Kris Spike, has had an article published in the Newcastle Herald on the 29th of October entitled Control births, feed and teach the living.

MEMBERS of Sustainable Population Australia have been saddened to learn of the death of Professor Frank Fenner, one of Australia's most distinguished scientists, an ardent conservationist and a Patron and strong supporter of SPA over many years.

Frank attended each and every SPA meeting in his home town, Canberra, until just a few meetings ago and will be sorely missed. He died on 22 November at the age of 95.

EVER had trouble explaining to somebody why Australia taking more immigrants can’t make any real difference to world poverty? In a dramatic presentation (Click here to see video) journalist Roy Beck uses jars of gumballs to show why. On stage he stacks up jars containing 3000 gumballs, representing the 3 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day.

Maybe technology will come forward with new sources of energy and materials when the current ones run out. Let’s test that.

Imagine that technology makes such incredible advances that we can settle all the other rocky planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus and Mars), convert them to earth-like ecosystems, and easily travel back and forth. This will multiply the surface area and resources available to us by a factor of 2.8.