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Climate Integrity Summit

Highlights from the 2024 Climate Integrity Summit

The solutions exist. The Climate Integrity Summit showed what they are and how to implement them.

National Press Club

Richard Denniss: National Press Club Address

On Wednesday, 31 January 2024, Richard Denniss and Allegra Spender MP addressed the National Press Club for a debate on the Stage 3 tax cuts and Australia's tax reform agenda.

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Protect Tasmania's Native Forests

Now is the time to protect Tasmania’s irreplaceable native forests and support native forestry workers to move to sustainable industries.

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Beetaloo Basin: Ban Fracking in the Northern Territory

96 Leading Australian Scientists & Experts Call on NT Government to ban fracking

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Increase the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax

Australia collects more money from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. It's time for the Parliament to increase the PRRT.

Latest news

Opinion

The Coalition’s nuclear power crusade is a futile distraction

March 25, 2024 by Richard Denniss in The New Daily

Opinion

Who Pays the Piper…Universities Dance to the AUKUS Tune

March 25, 2024 by Allan Behm

Opinion

Fire extinguishers, not guns

March 23, 2024 by Emma Shortis

Opinion

The academic publishing rort

March 23, 2024 by Kristen Scicluna

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Highlights from the Climate Integrity Summit 2024

March 22, 2024

Latest Research

NSW

Fossil Fuel Mining

Submission: Glendell Mine Modification 5

March 25, 2024 by Rod Campbell and Adam Gottschalk

Governance & Government Agencies

Polling – ABC Board

March 21, 2024

Labour Standards & Workers' Rights, Macroeconomics, Unions & Collective Bargaining

The Irrelevance of Minimum Wages to Future Inflation

Minimum and award wages should grow by 5 to 10 per cent this year

March 20, 2024 by Jim Stanford and Greg Jericho

Education & Training

Ending profiteering from publicly-funded research

Tackling the academic publishing oligopoly

March 20, 2024 by Kristen Scicluna

Governance & Government Agencies

Inquiry into the ART bills

Restoring trust in administrative review

March 15, 2024 by Bill Browne

Upcoming events

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

Cameron K Murray – The Great Housing Hijack

Australia's Biggest Book Club book for March 2024

Thu, Mar 28, 2024 11:00 am AEDT Zoom

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Politics in the Pub

Politics in the Pub: Bri Lee – The Work

Thu, Apr 4, 2024 6:30 pm AEDT Verity Lane Market

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics

Fri, Apr 12, 2024 11:00 am AEST

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Webinar, Australia's Biggest Book Club

Bri Lee – The Work

Australia's Biggest Book Club book for May 2024

Tue, May 7, 2024 11:00 am AEST Zoom