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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…
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…
Polling - Christmas waste 2024
…receive Christmas presents that they will never use or wear. We estimate the value of these unwanted gifts, many of which will end up as landfill waste, at over $1…
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…
Plastic packaging waste tax could raise billions
…a growing tsunami of plastic waste and is expected to miss every recycling target it has set,” the Australia Institute’s Circular Economy & Waste Program Director Nina Gbor said. “We’re…
The War On Waste with Craig Reucassel | Summer Series
…quo with Australia’s waste crisis. Join Craig Reucassel, host and producer of ABC TV’s War On Waste and Nina Gbor, Director Circular Economy & Waste Program at the Australia Institute,…