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Australian Polling Council Long Methodology Disclosure Statements
…Christmas waste 2024 – LDS (2024) Polling – Electoral reform – LDS Voice exit poll results – LDS and other results (2023) Stage 3 tax cuts and election promises –…
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,…
Is fracking good for your health?
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Australia needs to change the way it uses energy and many of those changes will be taking place over the next decade. Our current reliance…
Words Before Waste: South Australians Call for More Consultation on Federal Radioactive Waste Plan
New research shows that, while South Australians are divided on the issue of a nuclear waste dump, a clear majority believe more consultation should be undertaken before any final decision…
How the Grinch Saved Christmas
…the material waste, gifts are thrown away to the tune of $921 million each year. And it’s not just Australia, the globe has a Christmas waste problem. In France, the…
National Energy Emissions Audit - October 2018
…2018. The Audit shows that Australia’s emissions continue to increase, being driven by growing LNG exports, greater diesel use in transport and increases in agriculture and waste emissions Key findings:…
Money doesn't grow on trees
…hard to repeat. In response to declining volumes, the native forestry industry has increasingly lobbied for forest waste products to be sold to biomass electricity generation plants as a feedstock….
Australians revealed as world’s biggest fashion consumers, fuelling waste crisis
…($16). More than 200,000 tonnes of clothing end up in landfill each year, the equivalent weight of almost four Sydney Harbour Bridges. Fast fashion waste could be curbed through policies…
Which jobs and what growth?
…will inevitably create some jobs but it won’t necessarily leave anything of lasting benefit. Even in the deepest recession in modern history it’s possible to waste money. And there is…