Australia Institute analysis submitted to the federal government’s Gas Market Review shows the ACTU proposal for a 25% tax on gas exports would end the gas shortages being engineered by the gas industry, cut gas prices, and deliver $12.5 billion revenue windfall for Australian industry and households.

The algal bloom wreaking havoc on the South Australian coastline and economy underlines the urgent need for a National Climate Disaster Fund.

Labor has never been in a better position to implement its national policy platform.

Business representatives sit down today with government and others to talk about productivity. Who, according to those business representatives, will need to change the way they do things?

Latest decision on salmon farming almost certain to be catastrophic for endangered species, writes Eloise Carr

New Australia Institute research has identified three simple tax reforms which would raise an extra 70 billion dollars a year without hurting low or middle-income Australians.

The Australia Institute welcomes the Tasmanian Liberal Party’s promise to conduct an independent study into the salmon industry, pausing marine expansion while the review is carried out. 

Canberra is in the grip of Abundance fever, a virus that threatens to overwhelm public policy with a diagnosis of overregulation. For those afflicted, the treatment is to maintain the status quo, but with the sheen of progressivism. The Abundance agenda is being presented as a panacea for all of America’s problems, and therefore also Australia’s problems. It’s shaping

Turns out being Australia’s Biggest Bank is very profitable when there isn’t much competition…

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has used changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act to allow the continuation of commercial salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour.

New analysis from The Australia Institute underlines the impact of climate change on the economy and productivity ahead of next week’s Economic Reform Roundtable.

The RBA has cut interest rates – five weeks too late.

A new report on Australia’s standard of living has found that low real wages, underfunded public services and skyrocketing prices have left many families experiencing hardship and hopelessness.

The Australia Institute welcomes the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to cut interest rates today, but borrowers are still at least 0.25% behind where they should be.

We discuss the proposals around corporate tax and artificial intelligence ahead of the government’s productivity roundtable.

In an interim report released overnight, Harnessing data and digital technology, the Productivity Commission has floated a text and data mining exception for the Australian Copyright Act. This would make it legal to train artificial intelligence large language models, such as ChatGPT, on copyrighted Australian work. AI training would be added to the list of

On this special crossover episode of Follow the Money and After America, Dr Emma Shortis joins Glenn Connley to discuss the Australian protests calling for more action to protect Palestinians, the momentum against the troubled AUKUS submarine pact, and Trump’s decision to fire his chief of labour statistics after job growth slowed. This discussion was

From Gaza to AUKUS, pressure for change is building on Australian foreign policy.

There is a sickness at the centre of Australia’s childcare system. The profit motive.

Analysis by The Australia Institute shows ACTU Secretary Sally McManus’s call for a 25% tax on revenue from gas exports to replace the “broken” Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) would raise around $12.5 billion annually, enough to triple the Australian government’s housing expenditure.