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The inaugural Bernie Fraser Oration
Shine Dome, Canberra

Join us at the inaugural Bernie Fraser Oration, featuring former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor, Bernie Fraser

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Save Tuvalu, Save the World

This original documentary takes viewers to the front line of the destruction that climate change is causing.

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Make fossil fuel exporters pay for the damage they are causing

Fossil fuels are damaging our atmosphere and making climate related disasters like fires, floods, heatwaves and drought more frequent and more extreme.

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Revenue Summit 2025
Australian Parliament House

This year the Australia Institute’s Revenue Summit brings together economists and leading experts to discuss revenue options to meet Australia’s spending needs.

Opinion

This shocking deal is a gross betrayal of millions of voters

If Labor uses the Coalition to pass environment laws that ignore climate change, it is us, and our iconic species, that will pay the ultimate price.

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Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS

Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it.

Parliament House

The Australia Institute is one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks. Based in Canberra, we conduct high impact research that combines rigorous fact-driven material with cutting-edge communication strategies.

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Featured News

Incoming Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University Genevieve Bell listens to outgoing Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian P. Schmidt address the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra, Tuesday, December 5, 2023.

Opinion

A closer look at the ANU books reveals a hard truth about these job cuts

by Richard Denniss in The Canberra Times

Opinion

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now with added AI slop

by Amy Remeikis

Media Release

New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax

Media Release

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt – new research

Featured Research

Integrity Commissions, Governance & Government Agencies

The Price of Freedom

Australia’s flawed Freedom of Information system

by Bill Browne and Skye Predavec

The cost of slow growth in GST revenue. The growing problem of short-changing the states

by Matt Grudnoff

Climate Change

Costs of climate-driven disasters and local government revenue

by Rod Campbell

Education & Training, Corporate Governance

Cooking the books at the Australian National University – An analysis of the ANU accounts

by David Richardson and Richard Denniss

Climate Change, Education & Training, Fossil Fuel Mining

Fossil-fuelled universities

by Rod Campbell, Morgan Harrington and Skye Predavec

Upcoming events

ACT

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Politics in the Pub

Politics in the Pub: Australia’s Housing Crisis

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 6:30 pm AEDT Verity Lane Market

VIC

5 days to start

Writers Festival

Queenscliffe Literary Festival: America Unravelling

Sun, Oct 19, 2025 11:15 am AEDT Queenscliff Town Hall

ACT

14 days to start

Bernie Fraser Oration

Join us at the inaugural Bernie Fraser Oration, featuring former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor, Bernie Fraser.

Tue, Oct 28, 2025 6:00 pm AEDT Shine Dome

ACT

15 days to start

Revenue Summit

Revenue Summit 2025

Wed, Oct 29, 2025 9:00 am AEDT Australian Parliament House

17 days to start

Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

Defiance with Bob Brown

Join Bob Brown to discuss his new book, Defiance: Stories from nature and its defenders

Fri, Oct 31, 2025 11:00 am AEDT Zoom