There’s nothing more fair dinkum than getting a fair return for Australia’s gas
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called on The Australia Institute to be “fair dinkum” about its calls for a 25% gas tax. Today, The Australia Institute has taken out full-page advertisements in newspapers around the country to remind the Prime Minister that there’s nothing more fair dinkum than getting a fair price for Australian gas to pay for essential
SA fracking ban backflip “senseless and unnecessary”
The Australia Institute has taken out a full-page advertisement in today’s Adelaide Advertiser to remind South Australians that Premier Peter Malinauskas’ decision to overturn the state’s ban on gas fracking is not only irresponsible, but also unnecessary. Co-CEO of The Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss, said everyone from former Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to current One Nation
Can’t tax illegal tobacco, won’t tax gas industry – new budget analysis
Australia may be awash with illegal tobacco, but the federal government still collects more tax from smokers than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), according to new budget analysis by The Australia Institute.
Trump’s China trip light on substance as his approval rating continues to tank
Stuck in a quagmire of its own making in Iran, the Trump administration has little to show for its diplomatic efforts in Beijing.
Labor’s bait and switch: Focus on a broken promise means we miss the real budget cruelty
There has been a lot said about trust and honesty in politics in the days since Labor handed down its budget, but not a lot has had to do with integrity.
Budget 2026: Housing changes to slowly reverse decades of damage
The government’s changes to capital gains and negative gearing will begin to undo decades of damage to the housing market caused by Howard-era policies – so will Elinor actually be able to buy a house?
Coles guilty of fake discounts, but it shouldn’t be the only corporate giant taken ‘down, down’ for gouging Australians
The Australia Institute welcomes the Federal Court’s finding that Coles has misled Australian shoppers by promoting fake discounts on everyday grocery products.
Budget 2026: Serious housing reforms but a missed opportunity to tax gas exports
Australians are crying out for big, brave reforms from governments. The long-overdue changes to housing tax concessions in this budget suggest the federal government may be starting to get the message.
Help for home buyers, horror for NDIS participants and the gas industry’s free ride rolls on
Scaling back tax breaks for property investors is the first policy change in a generation which will make housing more affordable, according to economists, following Tuesday’s Federal Budget.
Working hard will not buy a roof over your head. If you can’t inherit one, you’re screwed
Australia has been in the grip of housing crisis for years.
More pain coming as RBA hikes interest rates again
Interest rates won’t affect the global oil price shock brought about by the illegal US war on Iran – so why did the Reserve Bank hike them again?
“Half-baked” gas reservation a distraction that won’t raise a cent in revenue
The government’s gas reservation policy – announced a short time ago – has been branded a “half-baked solution” to a problem which has been deliberately created by foreign gas companies to gouge Australians for their own gas.
Rate rise won’t open Strait of Hormuz but will push Australia towards recession
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to hit borrowers with a third straight interest rate rise heaps more unnecessary pain on home buyers and pushes Australia towards a recession, according to senior economists.
Australian banks now make $228,900 profit from the average home loan – new research
New research by The Australia Institute reveals the big four banks are raking in $228,900 profit over the 30-year life of an average $736,000 home loan.
New ad congratulates Japanese PM for collecting more tax on Australian gas exports than Australia has
The Australia Institute congratulates the Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her government for collecting more revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia has.
Acclaimed lawyer and author Josh Bornstein to join The Australia Institute to tackle corporate power
The Australia Institute is proud to announce that acclaimed lawyer and author, Josh Bornstein, will be joining the organisation in the newly created role of Director, Corporate Regulation.
April 2026
Inflation soars, but it’s not as bad as it seems
The big jump in the CPI has created some dramatic headlines, but digging just a bit deeper into the data reveals a different story.
Sicker for longer … and dying younger – how Medicare treats regional Australians like second class citizens
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.
Greens leader Larissa Waters on the housing crisis, gas exports & taxing the 1%
How have a select few accumulated such colossal wealth while many Australians struggle?
Medical misogyny alive and well in Australia, as new poll shows just 1 in 7 young women feel their GP always takes them seriously
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.
‘Not the right time’? Why Albanese’s safety first is no longer enough
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
It’s time for Australia’s super-rich to pay their fair share
For a lot of Australians, life has become much more expensive.
Ending Australia’s great gas giveaway
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.
David Pocock on getting a fair return for Australian gas
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.
Trump chaos driving bleak economic outlook
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.
Australians want nothing more than a fair return for their gas: submission to Senate Inquiry
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.
A simple gas tax has broad support. It could help soften the coming blow
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Every day the government delays implementing a 25% gas export tax costs the budget $49.8 million
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.
Will Trump send Australia into recession?
The US president is wreaking havoc in Iran and around the world.
Yanis Varoufakis on misogyny, resistance and why everything could be different
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.
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