Labor and the Coalition went to the election with the same policy position on Tasmania’s salmon industry: support at any cost.  

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

Just 28 days after tomorrow’s federal election, the government faces a critical decision, which will send a message to the world about its priorities. 

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.

A gas exploration drilling rig has appeared within sight of one of Australia’s most loved and iconic natural wonders, the 12 Apostles on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.

On Sunday in Hobart over 6,000 people protested against the harmful practices of foreign owned salmon industry in Tasmania. The Australia Institute’s Tasmanian director, Eloise Carr, spoke to rally participants about recent changes to national nature laws and how the Institute has raised this issue with the UN. Seventeen civil society organisations have written to

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

New Australia Institute research shows coal exports have reached record highs and new coal and gas projects continue to be approved. 

In the middle of an election campaign with a major focus on gas exports, Australia has just approved another massive new gas export project.

New research by The Australia Institute highlights that Australia has a gas export problem, reinforcing the cross-party consensus that has emerged during the election campaign.

Peter Dutton’s insistence that Australia does not have a shortage of gas and that the Coalition is “not here to line the pockets of big gas companies” is a big hit with voters, particularly conservative voters, according to new polling released by The Australia Institute.

Dutton’s nuclear push will cost renewable jobs As Australia’s federal election campaign has finally begun, opposition leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to spend hundreds of billions in public money to build seven nuclear power plants across the country has been carefully scrutinized. The technological unfeasibility, staggering cost, and scant detail of the Coalition’s nuclear proposal have

It’s not often I agree with Peter Dutton, but I can admit when he’s right and he’s right about two things.

Chris Bowen’s acknowledgement that Australia exports a lot of gas brings Labor into line with what everyone has long known – Australia does not have a gas shortage.

Australia is one of the largest exporters of mineral resources in the world, but Australians have never received their fair share of the profits from selling those resources.

The Coalition’s proposal to introduce a new tax on gas exports, designed to divert gas production away from exports and towards Australian households and industries, could raise billions of dollars, according to Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute.

Shocking new revelations about Tasmanian salmon should leave all Australians feeling sick to the stomach.

While all eyes were on the budget, the Albanese government gutted Australia’s environmental laws. The changes are great for the salmon industry, but terrible for endangered species and Australia’s democracy.

In his budget reply speech, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton confirmed what Australia Institute research has long shown – the gas export industry is hurting Australians.

Sydney voters care about fish deaths and the impact of commercial fishing in Tasmania, according to a new poll.  

This is a dark day for two of Australia’s greatest treasures: the environment and our democracy.

The Government’s proposed environmental law changes are an attack on our democracy and could benefit destructive industries far beyond Tasmania’s coastal ecosystems.

Ten years ago, Anthony Albanese launched a passionate defence of the laws which are designed to protect Australia’s environment.

New research from The Australia Institute has found that state and federal governments have given $15 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and major consumers in the 2024-25 financial year.

The Federal Government and Opposition are proposing to weaken environmental protections and stop community groups from protecting nature.

Chunks of dead salmon have washed up on Tasmanian beaches and the Maugean skate is at risk of extinction, so why won’t governments to more to rein in the salmon industry in Tasmania?

Documents released today under Freedom of Information reveal advice to the federal government that salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour should be comprehensively assessed under national environment law, for its impact on the endangered Maugean skate and the harbour’s World Heritage value. The advice was provided in November 2023 as the ‘likely outcome’ of reconsidering a 2012