Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions.

Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now” (whatever that means, the LNP’s Phil Thompson), they did this.

Despite big talk from the government about punishing any fuel retailers profiteering from the global energy crisis, many forms of price gouging remain perfectly legal.

A 25% gas export tax would drive down gas prices for Australians and collect billions of dollars that can be used to provide better, cheaper health and education services. 

Five news polls conducted for The Australia Institute reveal an overwhelming majority of Australians want a gas export tax to fund improvements in services like health and aged care.

Extraordinary new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that if the Albanese government had introduced a 25% gas export tax after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it would have raised more than 63 billion dollars.

The Iran conflict is driving up fuel prices across the world, which will flow through to food and other necessities for Australian households. It is also generating vast profits for the handful of largely foreign owned companies exporting Australia’s gas.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of and subsidise things you want more of – yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies this financial year.

Australian state and federal governments provided $16.3 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and major users in 2025-26, according to new research from The Australia Institute.

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals the impact the war in the Middle East is likely to have on Australian households – and recommends policies to limit the hardship.

Polling conducted for The Australia Institute reveals One Nation narrowly leads Independent Michelle Milthorpe in Farrer on primary votes, but that may not be enough to secure the once-safe Liberal seat.

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. But the truth is the federal government collects more money from the beer excise than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, as Independent ACT Senator David Pocock pointed out in Parliament,

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy!

New research by The Australia Institute reveals rural and regional electorates, particularly those currently held by the National Party, would be the largest beneficiaries of proposed reforms to the Low-Income Tax Offset (LITO).

A conference claiming to be “Australia’s premier carbon capture and storage (CCS) event”, which began in Melbourne yesterday, is less about climate action and more about subsidies for fossil fuel industries, according to The Australia Institute.

New polling conducted by the RedBridge Group reveals strong nationwide support for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports, an idea supported by the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

By removing guardrails around nuclear weapons, the Trump administration is making the world a far more dangerous place.

With a leading role in this year’s United Nations climate conference, the Australian government has an opportunity to show genuine solidarity with its Pacific neighbours and climate-vulnerable communities at home.

Another summer, another round of devastation: homes lost, communities evacuated, lives upended.

Richard Denniss discusses the government’s response to the Bondi terrorist attacks, the chaos of the Trump administration and how to protect Australia’s democracy.

The Albanese Government’s announcement of a gas reserve for Australians is an acknowledgement that there is no gas shortage, and that excessive exports have driven up energy prices for Australians. The Gas Market Review Report acknowledges that unrestricted exports linked Australian prices to world prices, tripling the cost of gas on Australia’s east coast over

Traditional custodians are fighting back against climate-destroying gas developments being rammed through by Canadian governments.

With the federal government seeking a new way to fix Australia’s self-inflicted “gas crisis”, Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports would solve the problem. The research shows a tax, proposed by the ACTU and supported by the Greens, would increase supply and cut energy bills for Australians. It would also raise around $17 billion

The Albanese government could soon intervene to start fixing one of the biggest ongoing public policy fiascos in this country’s history: Australia’s rampant, uncontrolled gas export industry.

On the eve of his defeat as Liberal Party leader in 2009, Malcolm Turnbull gave an interview to press gallery legend Laurie Oakes that still shocks hardened political watchers today.