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You can only spend a dollar once. When Queensland governments spend $9.5 billion on mining industry assistance, it’s $9.5 billion not available to schools, hospitals, roads, teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters or doctors. Queensland leads the nation in mining assistance and lags behind the rest of the nation in social services investment. There’s an easy

The world’s largest private coal company has lost 96% of its value in four years.  Bereft of life, coal is the ex-canary. 

In February 2015 Obama vetoed the Keystone XL oil pipeline on economic and environmental grounds. It’s the first time a US President has vetoed a major fossil fuel project. Many will now look to Australia, where the proposed Galilee coal project would move even more carbon to be burned.

Today’s unemployment figures hit 6.4%. Even in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis, amidst the worst global recession since the 1930s, Australia’s unemployment rate was lower. 

Hot on the heels of the Queensland state election, NSW goes to the polls in March to decide a few issues of its own. Here are some lessons NSW Premier Mike Baird might want to take from exit polling we did in the sunshine state. 

The Australia Institute has been arguing for years that mining is a small employer. Last week Brendan O’Connor, the Shadow Minister for Employment, agreed with us. Thanks Brendan, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

The Shadow Minister for women Claire Moore has called on the public service to not rule out quotas for women in management.http://ow.ly/FkIOX Major federal departments are failing at putting women into management roles but they are not the only ones. Women make up only 36% of managers across the whole workforce. What’s more there are

A promise is a promise… Except when circumstances change? 

Australia’s $105 billion Future Fund continues to invest public money in fossil fuels arguing that there is a “safe use” of fossil fuels. We checked the facts and discovered even the US government estimates every tonne of carbon emissions comes at a cost. Read our fact check here:http://ow.ly/EU1VDEvery tonne of carbon is doing you damage.

This Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Victoria’s Hazelwood Power Station, which in 2005 was named the most polluting operating station in the developed world. Earlier this year a toxic fire at the Hazelwood coal mine burned for 45 days! Energy technology has changed a lot since the sixties. Isn’t it time Australia’s energy sources