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South Australians remain opposed to nuclear waste dump: Poll
A ReachTEL poll of 1077 South Australian’s shows opposition to a nuclear waste dump at 48.5% and support at 37.2%. (Full results below) Final submissions to South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel…
Full preferential voting means you can't waste your vote
…its great benefit is that it ensures that Australians cannot “waste” their vote. Under full preferential voting, Australians number every candidate according to their preference. The full distribution of preferences…
Submission on the treatment of new waste coal mine gas power generation in the RET
…their waste methane rather than use it to generate electricity, but that is precisely what is being proposed. This problem can be simply fixed by ensuring that existing and newly…
Textiles waste in Australia
Every year, over 300,000 tonnes of clothing is either sent to landfill or exported from Australia. To respond to the growing textiles waste problem, the Commonwealth has proposed policies intended…
Polling - Presents, Wasteful Consumption and Repairs
…family or friend recommendations. Support for measures to reduce waste Most people support measures to reduce waste and encourage repairs, with support in each case unusually strong. This included: Taking…
Grow your own – 2024
The Australia Institute partnered with Grow It Local to conduct a national survey on food growing habits, attitudes towards food waste and concerns about food security. The Australia Institute surveyed…
A super waste of money: Redesigning super tax concessions
Super tax concessions are increasingly being used by high income earners as a way of minimising their tax. This is not their original purpose. They were designed to encourage people…
Christmas Waste 2023
The estimated value of this waste is $921 million. Unwanted and unused Christmas gifts and food ultimately end up in landfill, increasing the greenhouse gas emissions that drive the climate…
Fashion, circularity and the North Star
…waste reduction. She is an impact consultant and guest contributor on ABC TV’s award-winning environmental tv show, War On Waste. Nina founded Clothes Swap & Style, a clothing exchange platform…
The decision to scrap the levy on waste exports means more plastics will end up in landfill
…shipped its plastics waste overseas, but many of the nations that Australia once relied on to take it have now introduced laws that ban the importation of waste plastics. This…