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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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Australia Must Accelerate Climate Action, Not Climate Annihilation

As the world's third largest exporter of fossil fuels, Australia has a special responsibility to stop fueling the increase in global emissions caused by Australian fossil fuel production, both here and overseas.

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Ban Consulting Firms Who Breach Public Trust

Consulting firms who leak confidential information and breach public trust should be banned from winning government contracts.

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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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Scrap the Stage 3 Tax Cuts

Australia Institute research shows the Stage 3 income tax cuts are fiscally irresponsible, massively expensive and completely unfair

Coal Mine Tracker

Stop new coal mine approvals

There are 25 new coal mines or expansions awaiting Federal Government approval and four have already been approved. Coal Mine Tracker monitors their progress and total emissions.

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Opinion

Opening statement to the ACTU Price Gouging Inquiry

September 22, 2023 by Jim Stanford and Greg Jericho

Media Release

Deteriorating Disability Worker Pay, Conditions Undermining NDIS

September 22, 2023

Media Release

Corporate Profits Must Take Hit to Save Workers

September 21, 2023

Media Release

Tuvalu Pledge Can’t Greenwash Australia’s UN Climate Ambition Failure

September 21, 2023

Off the Charts

WA emissions weigh down the rest of the nation

September 20, 2023 by Rod Campbell and Matthew Ryan

Latest Research

Health, Insecure & Precarious Work

Going Backwards

How NDIS workforce arrangements are undermining decent work and gender equality

September 22, 2023 by Fiona Macdonald

Macroeconomics, Unions & Collective Bargaining, Wages & Entitlements

Profit-Price Inflation: Theory, International Evidence, and Policy Implications

Profits need to come down to reduce inflation and allow real wages to recover

September 21, 2023 by Jim Stanford, Richard Denniss, Matt Grudnoff, Greg Jericho, David Richardson and Matt Saunders

Climate Change, Energy from Fossil Fuels

Submission: Climate Change Authority Modelling

Imperfect information

September 20, 2023 by Matthew Ryan and Matt Saunders

Consumerism & Waste

Food Waste in Australia

And how supermarkets profit from it

September 18, 2023 by Lilia Anderson, Matt Grudnoff, Tom Hawking and Rod Campbell

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Electricity Markets & the Grid, Energy from Fossil Fuels, Environment & Jobs, Fossil Fuel Mining, Tax, Spending & the Budget, Water

Climate of the Nation 2023

Tracking Australia’s attitudes towards climate change and energy

September 13, 2023 by Elizabeth Morison

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