The big jump in the CPI has created some dramatic headlines, but digging just a bit deeper into the data reveals a different story. 

Medicare is failing regional and remote Australians, with rural people getting sicker and dying younger than their city counterparts, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

How have a select few accumulated such colossal wealth while many Australians struggle?

A new poll conducted for The Australia Institute reveals a significant gulf between the experiences of young women and older men when they see a doctor in Australia.

In 2014, Noel Pearson delivered an eulogy for Gough Whitlam. Professor Tom Clark wrote about it for The Conversation and said “Pearson came to praise Caesar on Wednesday, certainly not to bury him” as he listed the achievements of one of Australia’s greatest reformers. Pearson said he was speaking to “this old man’s legacy with no partisan brief” but named

For a lot of Australians, life has become much more expensive.

With the federal budget looming, a gas export tax would drive down prices and fund vital public services at a time when Australians are feeling the pinch.

Australia is one of the largest exporters of gas in the world, yet beer drinkers pay more tax than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resources Rent Tax.

It reads like a dystopian sci-fi novel, but the latest IMF report on the global economy refuses to name the orange elephant in the room.

Australia’s gas exporters pay little tax or royalties, employ few people, push up gas and electricity prices and worsen the climate crisis, a Senate Inquiry has been told.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Every week the federal government delays implementing a 25% gas export tax costs the Australian public around $350 million in revenue, new research from The Australia Institute reveals.

The US president is wreaking havoc in Iran and around the world.

There is no reason our societies can’t change radically, to produce more of what we need and less of the things that are sowing the seeds of our own destruction, says Yanis Varoufakis.

Until a 25% gas export tax is put in place, Australians are missing out on billions every year that could be used to support people through the living standards crisis.

Updated analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that a fair and appropriate increase to the minimum wage, and accompanying increases to award rates, would not have a significant effect on inflation.

New polling conducted for the Australia Institute reveals broad support for reducing the perks which give property investors a significant advantage over owner-occupiers in the property market. Even Liberal voters are ready to scrap the capital gains tax discount introduced by the Howard government in1999, which has enabled investors to pay tax on just half of what

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

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. 

A hearing will be held at Parliament House today, looking at ways to attract more donations to the struggling arts sector, as part of a Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy.