The ACT would be wrong to copy new election finance rules which have been proposed federally and in South Australia, according to a submission to a Parliamentary Inquiry into last year’s territory election.

New Australia Institute research reveals that the failures in Australia’s freedom of information (FOI) scheme lie with the government, not with applicants. The government’s proposal to limit FOI requests by charging fees instead of fixing the broken system misdiagnoses the problem.  

It‘s been revealed that Santos’ Darwin LNG gas export terminal has been leaking large amounts of climate-destroying methane gas for 20 years – and gas companies and governments have failed to act. This confirms The Australia Institute’s long-held concern that methane emissions are grossly underestimated and Australia’s regulators have been captured by the gas industry. The reporting

New research by The Australia Institute has found that federal MPs and Senators are entitled to over $3 million in pay, resources and perks over a three-year election cycle.

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals how the nation’s biggest polluters are making a mockery of Australia’s key climate policy, the safeguard mechanism.

The Western Australian Museum’s decision to allow Woodside Energy’s sponsorship of Science Week risks undermining the museum’s scientific integrity.

As Tasmania’s newly elected politicians jostle to form government, new analysis from The Australia Institute shows that a deal to address integrity would be popular among election-weary voters. 

Australians overwhelmingly want to keep political parties out of the postal voting process, according to new polling conducted for The Australia Institute. 

Reporting in Boiling Cold confirms the Australian and Western Australian governments will hand back almost half of the royalties collected from the Chevron-operated Barrow Island joint venture oil facility in WA. The deal between Chevron and the Australian and WA governments means taxpayers will pay Chevron and its joint venture partners, Santos and Exxon, at least $500 million.

Reporting today confirms large quantities of Western Australia’s domestic gas reserves are being exported via Woodside’s North West Shelf project, and the federal and Western Australian governments are letting it happen.

This weekend saw Tasmania’s second election in just over a year, and the result means whoever forms government will need to work with the Greens or Independents if they want to govern.

New polling, commissioned by The Australia Institute, reveals just 3% of Australians want the federal government to approve the sale of Australian-based oil and gas company, Santos, to foreign investors.

More Tasmanians agree than disagree that the major parties should seek to form government with Greens and Independents if they cannot form government in their own right, according to new polling commissioned by The Australia Institute.

The Labor and Liberal–National parties rely more on preferences to win elections than ever before, according to new analysis from The Australia Institute.  

For the first time in Australian history, all three major parties – Labor, Liberal and National – have leaders who saw off a crossbench challenger to hold their seat, according to new Australia Institute analysis.

Regardless of who wins the July 19 state election, Tasmanians overwhelmingly want the government to rip up the dud stadium deal with the AFL.

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that, following the recent federal election, there are now more women than ever in Australia’s nine parliaments, but the coalition’s so-called “women problem” remains. 

A new poll conducted for The Australia Institute has found that 72% of voters saw misleading political advertisements during the recent election campaign, with well over half of those exposed to misleading ads every day.

The days of big polluters using dodgy carbon offsets to greenwash their products are numbered.

The days of media moguls deciding Australian elections are over, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

At last Saturday’s election, the Albanese Labor Government won a large majority and a historically significant swing towards it, but seven in ten Australians still expect the Senate to review every government policy on its merits.

Integrity experts, including former judges, ombudsmen and leading academics, have signed an open letter, coordinated by The Australia Institute and Fairer Future and published today in The Canberra Times, calling on the newly elected Parliament of Australia to address weaknesses in Australian political integrity. The open letter warns that a decade of decline in agencies

Most Independent / Other voters support crossbench to negotiate for best outcomes for nation and electorate

Over the course of the election campaign, there’s been a lot of fear-mongering around the prospect of a “hung parliament” or “minority government”.

Almost two years after the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) began operations, it is at a crossroads. 

It’s widely predicted that Saturday’s federal election will be decided by voters feeling the cost-of-living squeeze in the outer suburbs of our capital cities.

New polling research by The Australia Institute reveals that 86% of Australians want stronger legal protections for whistleblowers.