Updated analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that a fair and appropriate increase to the minimum wage, and accompanying increases to award rates, would not have a significant effect on inflation.

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

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 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.

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 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. 

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.

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.

Australian state and federal governments provided $16.3 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and major users in 2025-26, according to new research from The Australia Institute.

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals the impact the war in the Middle East is likely to have on Australian households – and recommends policies to limit the hardship.

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

Polling conducted for The Australia Institute reveals One Nation narrowly leads Independent Michelle Milthorpe in Farrer on primary votes, but that may not be enough to secure the once-safe Liberal seat.

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.

A conference claiming to be “Australia’s premier carbon capture and storage (CCS) event”, which began in Melbourne yesterday, is less about climate action and more about subsidies for fossil fuel industries, according to The Australia Institute.

New polling conducted by the RedBridge Group reveals strong nationwide support for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports, an idea supported by the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

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.

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.

The Australian Electoral Commission has today released its political contributions data for 2024-25, which reveals the major political parties raised and spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year. 

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.

On the eve of this year’s Triple J Hottest 100, new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals a bleak outlook for Australian music, and also how to fix it.

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. 

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The Albanese Government’s announcement of a gas reserve for Australians is an acknowledgement that there is no gas shortage, and that excessive exports have driven up energy prices for Australians. The Gas Market Review Report acknowledges that unrestricted exports linked Australian prices to world prices, tripling the cost of gas on Australia’s east coast over

The Centre for Future Work was established by the Australia Institute in 2016 to conduct and publish progressive economic research on work, employment, and labour markets. Supported by the Australian Union movement, the centre produced cutting edge research and led the national conversation on economic issues facing working people: including the future of jobs, wages

Skilled health workers from Pacific Island countries are being poached to plug Australia’s shortage of care workers, leaving the health systems in their home countries on the brink of collapse, according to new research.

Today’s decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to keep interest rates on hold shows the RBA doesn’t really know which way inflation is trending.