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

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 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.

The Reserve Bank’s decision to raise interest rates today will inflict more unnecessary pain on households struggling with a long-running cost-of-living crisis and soaring fuel prices. 

New polling conducted for The Australia Institute reveals broad support for access to abortion services, despite anti-abortion rhetoric ahead of the South Australian election and Farrer by-election.

Hundreds of thousands of gun owners have no genuine reason to have a firearm according to analysis released today by The Australia Institute.

Exploitation and poor living conditions have led an estimated 7000 people to walk away from the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme.

In the MAGAverse, it’s white men who are born to rule – at home and abroad.

When Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen won last week’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, along with the $25,000 Indigenous Writing prize, she called on the Australian government to change the way it taxes arts prizes. Araluen won for her poetry collection, The Rot, described by the judges as “a work of remarkable poetic intelligence;

The far-right is benefitting from a failing status quo – but it doesn’t have to be this way.

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).

Workers are being unfairly punished for increasing inflation, according to a new report by The Australia Institute.

After months of speculation, the Liberal Party has a new leader, and the Coalition has a new frontbench. So, does that mean we can expect some new ideas?

Inequality creates insecurity and, as the United States is demonstrating right now, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

This week, Australia rolled out the red carpet for a world leader who has been accused of inciting genocide, while NSW police were caught on camera bashing people protesting against genocide.

On the back of ongoing tax concessions primarily benefitting the wealthiest and the government’s five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, Australia has just broken a new record for average home loan size.

A scheme designed to help the economies of Pacific Island nations while filling labour shortages in Australia is putting workers at risk of modern slavery, according to a new report by The Australia Institute.

The privatisation of Australian high school education, originally led by the Howard government, has caused prices to soar.

By its own standards, today’s decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates from 3.6 percent to 3.85 percent seems rushed and inconsistent.

As the 2026 school year gets underway, new research by The Australia Institute reveals that Australia is the most expensive place in the developed world for families to send a child to high school.

Last weekend, music fans across Australia tuned into national youth music station Triple J for the 33rd annual Hottest 100.

Even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD says the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are a problem.

The government passed new gun control and hate speech legislation in a special parliamentary sitting, but what impact will they have on Australian democracy?

The Albanese government’s new gun laws, which passed the federal parliament with the support of the Greens and crossbench, will make all Australians safer. 

Australia’s health system is in crisis and, while the tensions over funding between state and territory leaders and the Commonwealth is at an all-time high, people desperately waiting for medical help need real action, not performative posturing.

From Minnesota to Greenland, the Trump administration is bulldozing guardrails meant to protect human life and dignity.

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.

PALM visas holders do not get Medicare (outside of a trial limited to 200 people), so what happens when they are injured, get sick or fall pregnant?

The first thought I had when the Albanese government’s under 16s social media ban was announced was: “Can I opt in?”