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Budget Analysis 2022-23
This failure is all the more regrettable given the enormous discretionary fiscal resources which the government has at its disposal: the budget projects $133 billion in extra tax revenues over…
Australia ill-equipped for fuel security crisis: time for solution
…through electric vehicle targets and fuel efficiency standards. “Australia is an international laggard when it comes to fuel efficiency. Weak fuel standards and an absence of a national electric vehicle…
A comparison of the economic impacts of income tax cuts and childcare spending
A comparison of the impact on employment of child care expenditure and income tax cuts of an equivalent net cost to the budget. The clear superiority of childcare expenditure in…
A Model Line-up
Debate about the cost of climate action is a recurring feature of Australian politics and has been central to the political turmoil of the last decade. Advocates for delaying or…
Undermining our democracy: Foreign corporate influence through the Australian mining lobby
Australia’s mining industry is 86% foreign owned and has spent over $541 million in the last ten years on lobbying Australian governments through its peak lobby groups, which are dominated…
The Economic, Fiscal, and Social Importance of Aluminium Manufacturing in Portland, Victoria
The unit price of aluminium is more than 50 times greater than the unit price of bauxite. Yet Australia is growing its presence at the lower-value end of this industry…
Power down
Until 2010 – for well over a century, through two world wars and the Great Depression – the quantity of electricity used in Australia each year was greater than the…
A review of current and future methane emissions from Australian unconventional oil and gas production
A new report by the University of Melbourne Energy Institute has found that unmeasured methane leakage and fugitive emissions from unconventional gasfields could cause Australia to fail its Paris climate…
Getting Offset: Submission re NT Climate Change Discussion Paper
The Australia Institute made a submission to the NT Government’s Climate Change Discussion Paper. Emissions from increased NT gas production would dwarf all other sources of NT emissions and threaten…