Everybody knows the Albanese government has it easy in Parliament.

Around this time 12 years ago, Barnaby Joyce stood up and declared the average family lamb roast was about to cost $100.

One of the hardest things for people to understand with this latest Liberal Party implosion is that it’s not rational.

When Donald Trump posted an AI video of himself in a plane, spraying crap all over Americans, I couldn’t help but admire his transparency about the way he treats the American people.

Environment Minister Murray Watt is known as Labor’s political “fixer” – Australians have given him the opportunity to fix something for us, and our planet. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) was enacted in 2000 as the country’s first attempt at a holistic approach to balance the desire for growth with the need

I’ve been lucky enough to complete a few multi-day hikes overseas in the past few years. Every morning, I woke up in my tent with the feeling that something wasn’t quite right and then I realised why – it was practically silent. There’s no cackle of kookaburras at dawn, no warble of magpies, or comforting screeches

This original documentary from The Australia Institute takes viewers to the front line of the destruction that climate change is causing.

Governments say the right things about becoming a ‘renewable energy superpower’ and committing to net zero. But they keep approving new coal and gas projects as if the laws of physics don’t apply to Australia.

We need to talk about the Pacific.

It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion

The Productivity Commission’s ideological slip is showing, and as a result, the advice it is giving the government is as confused as it is unproductive.

For the sake of taxpayers, let’s hope that the Audit Office is inspecting the AUKUS books closely. Australian money is flushing into the US submarine construction system – a billion US dollars so far, with another billion by year’s end. What will Australia have to show for it? Nothing. Except, of course, for a lot of international

Buried deep in Australia new emissions data release is this nugget, in the ‘revisions’ section: “Fugitive sector emissions decreased 2.2% over the year to March 2025, mainly driven by reductions in natural gas venting emissions from new carbon capture and storage activities and a decline in production across both surface and underground coal mining. Estimates

A genuine debate about how to boost Australia’s productivity should bring in a wide range of groups to talk about a wide range of options, but, alas, that’s not what happened in Canberra last week.

Recently, we published a video showing a huge new gas drilling rig in Victoria, within sight of the 12 Apostles – a globally recognised tourist hotspot. As Dr Emma Shortis says in the video: “We are putting our coastlines at risk to extract gas we don’t even need. Australia already produces way more gas than

Governments work hard to ensure that Australian climate policy seems effective to media and voters, while simultaneously ensuring it does nothing to limit the key thing that is wrecking the climate – fossil fuel expansion.

As the Albanese government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 climate target, pressure is mounting to show greater ambition.

Like a reanimated corpse from The Walking Dead, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the boondoggle “technology” that just wont die. As a way for governments to piss public money up the wall, CCS is incredibly effective. On almost every other front, it’s a spectacular failure.

When the medical world hosts a conference on quitting smoking, they don’t invite Phillip Morris, or British American Tobacco along to help “be part of the solution”.

It is time for the Australian government to admit we can’t insure our way out of the climate crisis our fossil fuel exports do so much to cause.

Taxpayers are being asked to hand over billions to multinational mining giant Rio Tinto to help keep its Tomago aluminium smelter open – again.

A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf (NWS) project in Western Australia would see huge amounts of gas given away with no return for Australians.

A 50-year extension to the North West Shelf (NWS) project in Western Australia (WA) would see huge amounts of gas given away royalty-free. While the exact volume and value is hard to predict, a basic estimate is that up to $215 billion worth of gas could be given away, royalty-free. The NWS liquefied natural gas

If a private company ran a scheme that misled consumers, inflated investor confidence, and exposed its clients to legal risk, we would expect the government to shut it down.

Australia, Big Gas is taking the piss. We made this TV ad to make sure people know.

We’re in the final days before the 2025 Federal Election. Sifting through slogans and dodging dreary debates, the team at the Australia Institute has put together a list of practical ideas that have been missing from the mainstream.

Climate and nature crises won’t pause while politics plays out.