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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.

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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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Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end

The National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia.

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The inaugural Bernie Fraser Oration

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

Opinion

How Labor is actually fuelling the climate crisis it is warning us about

Labor's climate policy shows a kind of hypocrisy that has become so normal in Australian politics it almost slips past unnoticed.

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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.

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New government data confirms gas exporters continue to pay no tax

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Don’t believe the spin. Pollution from the gas export plant is destroying the ancient Murujuga rock art.

Media Release

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus

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September 2025 Media Highlights

Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) and WA Premier Mark McGowan are seen during a press conference in Perth, Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Podcast: Dollars & Sense

How ScoMo stuffed the GST

featuring Greg Jericho and Elinor Johnston-Leek

Featured Research

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

Energy from Fossil Fuels, Fossil Fuel Mining

Impact of gas exports on Australian energy prices

Allowing unrestricted gas exports from the east coast of Australia has resulted in domestic wholesale gas prices more than tripling and electricity prices doubling.

by Mark Ogge, Matt Saunders and Rod Campbell

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