The Australia Institute has questioned how the approval of the Hunter Valley Operations coal mine helps with Australia’s stated commitment to phase out coal.

The Australia Institute has produced a sequel to its popular Big Gas is Taking the Piss ad campaign. Launched today, the video reminds Australians that every week the Albanese Government delays implementing a 25% gas export tax, the nation loses $350 million, which could be spent on hospitals, schools, roads, the NDIS and dozens of

Nine nuclear weapons states are holding the rest of the world “hostage to annihilation”, but the Australian government is yet to act on a global ban.

Does it ever seem to you like you’re paying the same amount for a service, but the service you’re getting is worse?

Federal Parliament should disallow a controversial new method for making carbon credits, according to a working paper released by the Australia Institute today. The working paper by University College London Associate Professor Fergus Green takes aim at a  proposal by the NSW government to sell carbon credits in return for creating a national park to

Woodside has reported a revenue jump of nearly 30 per cent to $6 billion over the past three months, with the company branded “one of the Australia’s biggest winners” from the war in the Middle East. Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute, said the soaring war profits of Woodside and other gas exporters was an opportunity for

The NSW government’s decision to bar coal and gas companies from buying carbon credits generated by the Great Koala National Park is yet another blow for Australia’s chaotic carbon credit system.

A gas export tax, as proposed by the ACTU and supported by The Australia Institute, would raise an estimated $17 billion a year that could be invested into services like health, disability care, aged care, and education.

Australia’s flagship climate policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, is failing to drive actual emission reductions.

If fire ants are allowed to spread across Australia, thousands of pets could be killed and households could be hit with costs of over $1 billion each year, according to new research by The Australia Institute. The invasive species, originally from South America, has been detected in several states, with Queensland so far the worst affected.

Australia’s flagship climate policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, is failing miserably, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

New research reveals that mining companies use 8 billion litres of diesel per year, while the government is urging ordinary Australians to take the bus and pump up their tyres to save fuel.

Coverage of One Nation’s gas policy made it sound like the beginning of some kind of people’s revolution, but without a 25% gas export tax, Australians will get short-changed.

Did you notice what was different, really different, about the budget this year?

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

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

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.

The Australia Institute welcomes the Federal Court’s finding that Coles has misled Australian shoppers by promoting fake discounts on everyday grocery products.

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.

While dealing with political problems over gas in Australia, federal government representatives are also attending the world’s first meeting to transition away from fossil fuels.

New Australia Institute research published today shows that the Japanese Government makes more revenue taxing its imports of Australian gas than the Australian Government makes from the export of our gas. Key findings: Japan has imposed a tax on oil and gas imports since 1978, expanding the tax to cover coal in 2003. Over the last

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.

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.

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.