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Media Release

Batteries and Renewables to Provide Secure Energy Future: New Report

March 29, 2021

Media Release

Removing JobKeeper isn’t a ‘Bump’ to Unemployment, it’s a Shoulder Charge

March 24, 2021

Podcast: Follow the Money

What women want

March 25, 2021

Latest news

NSW’s $10 Billion Annual Climate Bill: Coal Exporters Should Pay, Not Households & Business

April 12, 2021

Media Release

Australia’s Tax Concession System Stacked Against Women

April 5, 2021

Majority of Australians Support Territories Rights on Voluntary Assisted Dying

April 4, 2021

Opinion

Right now we’re choosing not to solve our biggest problems

April 3, 2021 by Ebony Bennett in The Canberra Times

Podcast: Follow the Money

The security of the national electricity grid

April 1, 2021 featuring Dan Cass and Ebony Bennett

All news

Latest Research

Climate Change, Energy from Fossil Fuels, Transport

Submission on the Future Fuels Discussion Paper

April 6, 2021 by Audrey Quicke

Retirement, Social Security & Welfare, Tax, Spending & the Budget

Rich Men and Tax Concessions

How certain tax concessions are widening the gender and wealth divide

April 5, 2021 by Matt Grudnoff and Eliza Littleton

Society & Culture, Wellbeing & Happiness

Polling: Voluntary assisted dying and the Territories

April 4, 2021

International Relations

Get out of the diplomatic freezer: Bring back the Chinese students

April 1, 2021 by Melissa Conley Tyler and Allan Behm

Climate Change, Energy from Fossil Fuels, Environment & Jobs

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

New coal mines in the Hunter Valley

March 31, 2021 by Richard Denniss, Rod Campbell and Eliza Littleton

All research