Ten years after former Treasurer Joe Hockey advised Australians to get “a good job that pays good money” to buy a house, new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals just how bad that advice actually was.

On Wednesday 12 March, the High Court of Australia is scheduled to hand down a decision on the case Commonwealth of Australia v. Yunupingu (on behalf of the Gumatj Clan or Estate Group) & Ors.

Ordinary Australians are paying the massive costs of more frequent and extreme floods caused by a handful of global fossil fuels corporations, including the coal and gas export giants operating in Australia.

To mark International Women’s Day, The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work has identified five key issues facing working women in 2025.
From debt to diversity, AI to pay … Program Director Fiona Macdonald and Senior Researcher Lisa Heap tell us what to expect following sweeping changes to policies impacting women in the US and the looming election here.

Struggling families who ditch their home and contents insurance would lose three-quarters of their wealth if their home was destroyed, according to new research by The Australia Institute.

Australia’s biggest private health insurers are making billions but, at the same time, crying poor so they’re allowed to hike premiums.

Ever since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s letter pledging to protect the foreign-owned salmon industry at the expense of world heritage wilderness, an ecological disaster has unfolded in Tasmania.

More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

Exporting most of Australia’s gas has led to higher prices for Australian households and businesses.

With an unfolding ecological disaster in Tasmania, salmon farmers have a duty to protect Australian families from diseased, dying or dead fish.

Australia Institute analysis reveals Woodside’s North West Shelf gas export project is driving up WA energy prices, threatening the state’s domestic gas reserves, paying even fewer royalties, corroding one of the world’s greatest artistic treasures, and wrecking the climate.

The rising concentration of property and investment assets in the hands of wealthier Australians is making housing crisis worse and deepening economic divides.

A new report which reveals the coalition’s nuclear plan would send an additional two billion tonnes of emissions into the atmosphere and send power bills even higher is yet another distraction from the real issues in Australia’s energy debate. 

Australians know they’re being ripped off at the supermarket checkout.

Australia’s Administrative Review Tribunal has ordered the federal government to release a ministerial brief on the prospective extinction of the Maugean skate, recognised for its World Heritage value, in a win for government transparency over a culture of secrecy.

The Coalition’s proposed divestiture powers to break up major hardware and grocery retailers could help keep inflation down and assist with cost-of-living pressures.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s letter to the Tasmanian salmon industry, promising new federal environmental laws to protect the foreign-owned businesses, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines government process.

Today’s long-overdue decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates is a good start.

A new report has found direct connections between the climate crisis and rising cost-of-living pressures. Failure to lower emissions now will only aggravate the crisis, with each moment of inaction compounding the pressure on households.

There are reports today that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has written to the Tasmanian salmon industry, assuring its future in Macquarie Harbour. 

The Australia Institute and 13 other organisations have written to UNESCO, the World Heritage Centre and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, to highlight the plight of the endangered Maugean skate and request their assistance to prevent its extinction.

Last night the federal Liberal Party announced it had done a deal with the Albanese Labor Government on electoral laws – and, this morning, it became law, having been rushed through both houses of Parliament.

Crossbench MPs have joined The Australia Institute to launch a new report outlining potential democratic reforms for the next Parliament.

Some of Australia’s best-known and most respected industry, business and community leaders have written an open letter to state and federal MPs calling for an end to the “net zero smokescreen” to “secure Australia’s prosperity”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came to office in 2022 promising a new era of integrity in government. 

The revelation that many of Australia’s biggest companies have quit a government-run carbon offset scheme is real-world, real-time proof that carbon credits don’t work.

In the aftermath of the January 2025 ceasefire, the outlook for Palestinians remains dire.

Many of Australia’s most renowned artists, writers and musicians are calling on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the destruction of one of world’s most important artworks and cultural heritage sites, the Murujuga petroglyphs in Western Australia.

The Australia Institute is calling for transparency and real-time disclosure of political donations ahead of the Australian Electoral Commission’s annual release of political contributions data for 2023-24.