Search Results for: "electric vehicles"
People power: How Tasmania can fast-track community energy
…Australia lags behind. “Rural electric cooperatives serve an incredible 42 million Americans, with assets worth US$112 billion and employing 70,000 people. “Sir Edward Davey, the UK’s former Secretary of State…
Tracking Well-being in Australia: The Genuine Progress Indicator 2000
This paper reports an updated version of the GPI published by The Australia Institute in 1997. The paper is in two parts, the first providing the rational for the GPI…
The Genuine Progress Indicator for Australia
It has long been recognised that GDP growth does not correlate well with changes in social welfare, i.e. national well-being. The GPI adjusts GDP by 23 factors that reflect some…
Climate of the Nation 2021
Climate of the Nation is the longest continuous survey of community attitudes to climate change in the country.
Polling – Formula E
New research from The Australia Institute has shown that more than half (51%) of South Australians want Adelaide to host a fully electric Formula E Championship race, while just 11%…
The liquor industry
This study aims to present a broad outline of the liquor industry in Australia and the influences on it….
Norway leading pack to electrify all car sales in five year
…and subsidised public charging infrastructure. Australia’s lack of a federal electric vehicle strategy and light vehicle emissions standards are impeding electric vehicle uptake in Australia. Australia has some of the…
Australia's leaders are lagging behind on climate
…Canberra, electric vehicles are stamp duty exempt and receive a 20 per cent reduction in registration fees, and we have already achieved 100 per cent renewables. The government that operates…
The death of the Holden epitomises what's wrong with this economy
…doesn’t have the lowest wages or the lowest company taxes, yet Tesla is leading the electric vehicle market worldwide. Australia could have been at the forefront of the electric vehicle…